Burn in Ruin (Fortune Academy Underworld Book 4) by J.R. Thorn

Author:J.R. Thorn [Thorn, J.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-11-29T00:00:00+00:00

AZRA

Five hours.

It might as well have been five thousand years that I was forced to torture a demon I’d grown to care about.

I never would have expected to struggle to find enjoyment in my favorite sort of torment, but none of this felt right.

Kaito’s mortal form all but hung from him in tatters. His chest, now jutting with broken ribs, heaved as he gulped in air.

Black blood splattered the walls. The floors.

Everywhere.

Even my wings, tarnishing them with dark spots that made me feel like I was the one being Corrupted.

“Give in,” I growled for the thousandth time. “End this, Kaito.”

Kaito could barely move. He gripped the torture chair I’d shoved him into and ignored the nails that sank into his hand.

He lifted his chin and glared at me. One eye had swollen shut, but the other was wide open. The silver scar that ran up his face gleamed with angry power.

He was so close to letting his Kami take over.

He was also very close to dying.

I wasn’t sure which one he preferred more. Pushing him further was a risk that this wasn’t going to go my way.

And for the first time… I feared I’d made a mistake.

“Kaito,” I growled as I decided to give into my last resort. “Don’t make me do this.”

Heat blazed through my body as I summoned my angelic weapon.

The Whip of Penance.

I’d been trying to get him to talk to me in my head again so that we could talk freely, but he’d closed himself off from me the moment the torture had begun.

We were going to have to do this the hard way.

“Do your worst, Az,” he growled, using the shortened version of my name.

For some reason, that made it even harder to lift my whip.

But I did.

And then I let it fall, sending a golden streak down his broken body.

He screamed. The sound of true pain twisted my heart.

Because my whip didn’t just elicit agony of the flesh. It drew out sin—and a demon like Kaito had plenty of that to extract.

This tactic usually worked on Fallen Angels and helped them grow closer to their original selves. A Fallen Angel without sin was simply an angel at the end of it all.

A demon without sin, though, was nothing at all.

This could kill him.

Or… it could force him to fight back.

“Give me what I want!” I shouted.

I didn’t want to know his secret of how he resisted Calamity. I already had an idea.

He hadn’t rejected Calamity.

Calamity had rejected him… because he couldn’t be controlled if his demon was set free.

In some ways, I suspected he was even more powerful than Lucifer or Cole. I didn’t yet know why, but that was the only explanation how he’d resisted Calamity when the rest of the mate-circle had not.

My brother and myself had insanity on our side, leaving a disjointed mind that Calamity couldn’t get a handle on.

What I wanted from Kaito was to show what made him special.

To embrace who he truly was and get his head out of his fucking ass.

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