Sinless Demons by A K Koonce

Author:A K Koonce [Koonce, A K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-29T16:00:00+00:00

13

A Vow

Zaviar

I was starting to think the castle was worse than the treehouse with Corva looming over us.

Gods, was I fuckin’ wrong.

Corva is so much worse than the assholes prancing around the castle pretending they’re better than everyone else because they’re sinless.

Corva though, she’s not petty.

She’s deadly.

Her smoky black hair wafts around her pale face as she tilts her head this way and that from above me. I lie flat on the wooden couch and hold back every searing sting of pain that stabs through my heart. It feels like my heart is splitting. Like—like it wants to tear in half and just end my agony right here, right now.

“He needs to go back to the gods,” Corva says to her sister, who stands only inches away from me.

Aries hasn’t left my side all night. Her pretty face is pinched in a look of concern that I’ve never seen her have for me.

That look warms my cracking heart.

“He, uh . . . he can’t go back,” Aries whispers.

Everyone in the room shifts to face her.

“What the fuck do you mean, I can’t go back?” My teeth grind together with slicing pain shooting once more through my chest.

Corva’s thin brows lift in surprise as she looks at her little sister. The smile on her lips is unsettling, to say the least.

That smile clings to her lips as she speaks. “You bound him, didn’t you?”

“Ahh,” Krave says with a smirk as well.

The two of them are not fuckin’ helping right now. “What!” I holler. “They did that demon binding. It’s for demons. It’s fucking useless on seraphs.”

“Ha-ha, that’s where you’re wrong, my pretty pink-feathered friend,” Krave says with a shake of his long glittering finger.

Fucking incubus.

I grimace once more, but this time, it has nothing to do with physical pain.

“It’s a ritual created by high fae magic. You’re bound to my sister,” Corva says with gleaming excitement in her eyes.

“I—I have to go back,” I say sternly.

“Yes. Yes. You do. But when a binding is stretched,” Corva claps her hands together, and as she slowly pulls them away, a thread of golden magic disperses between her palms. It becomes thinner and thinner. Until it snaps with sparking colors. “It won’t be pretty for you, Angel.”

“Fuck,” I growl out, my palm pressing over my pec to sooth the carving agony.

“If you stay, it’ll hurt. And if you leave Aries, it’ll really fucking hurt,” Krave explains in layman’s-blunt-stupid-fucking-incubus terms.

I’d say something back to him, but the next jolt of throbbing terror hits my heart like I’m dying with a full breath in my lungs. Dying while my head throws back.

And a beautiful gift from the gods looks down on me. “I’m so sorry, Zav.” Her tone is hushed and intimate along my ear. Her breath skims my skin while her fingers thread through my hair.

Maybe I am dying.

I’m dying a sweet miserable death that I deserve.

“Can you help him? Can you reverse the bindings?” Aries cries, her voice shaking so hard, it hurts to hear.

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