Retribution

“Malachi, Troy feeds every damn day, he must kill at least three in a twenty-four hour period. How could you hope to defeat him if you won’t give yourself the sustenance your body craves.”

“I can’t kill someone to ensure my own life, it’s not who I am. And even if I didn’t kill my source, I would take too much for them to ever return to the person they once were.”

The palm of her hand gently rested against my cheek and I couldn’t help but lean into it, until her nails began to score my face and her eyes shifted screaming her anger at me.

“Fine, then face Troy and die, just know when I am wearing my wedding dress, knowing I will soon be married to him, it will be your fault. You’re just handing me over to him, at least you will be dead, so you won’t have to witness it.”

She spun around and began to storm off, her words stoked a fire that was erupting into an inferno and I was closing the distance she had put between us.

I seized hold of her shoulder in a white-knuckle grip, she turned to face me with shock written all over her face.

“Be careful what you wish for Unya, did you ever consider the fact that I might be better off the way I am. You have no idea what I could become.”

“Let me put it like this then Malachi, I want to see you lose control. I want to watch as you drain the life out of another being, I want to see how excited you can get. Refuse and I may as well kill you right here and now. I want the Incubus, not some hybrid like Troy and not the broken, pathetic creature you have become.”

In that moment two daemons appeared, looking terrified. Unya placed her hands upon their bare chests and they fell onto their knees.

“You don’t want this Unya, not the real you anyway.”

I chose the wrong words, I could see that right away, but it was too late.

“This is the real me, the weak, broken creature you once knew is gone. I am the one standing here, and the only choices open to you are accept me as I am or leave my sight for good. But if you choose to stay, and you love me like I think you do, then do as I ask. Kill this little daemon and show me just what an Incubus can really do.”

How could I decide something like that? Choose to be the man that I had fought tooth and nail to become and lose the woman I had damned myself to save or become the creature I was born to be. If I did this, I could lose myself completely. Was she worth it?

That one question helped me to decide, either option I would come to regret, but I couldn’t do a damn thing about that now.

I walked over to her and laid my hands upon one of the guy’s chest. He didn’t speak to me on a sexual level, not because he was a man but because he was a bottom feeder. I mean that in a nearly very literal way, he fed on the weakest daemons down here, working his way from toe to head.

I unleashed my power slowly, feeling his life force begin to flow into my being.

Unya smiled viciously, as she pushed the other one flat onto his back, straddling his lower torso as she inflicted cut after cut across his flesh.

The pitiful man was whimpering but it soon changed to screams when she plunged the knife into his chest and started to pull it down.

Whereas my victim was enjoying the euphoria I was giving him as I drew more and more of his essence out from within him. I was trying to Make it an enjoyable experience for the damn bottom feeder, before he died.

“No Malachi make it hurt. Make him scream out in agony, so it can make sweet music with mine.”

I closed my eyes, but I’d already come too far. I couldn’t turn back now, so I unleashed the full force of my power into him.

He screamed out as his eyes grew wider and his skin paled, his mouth was stretched so far that it dislocated.

By the time mine was dead, Unya had grown bored playing with hers and severed his head the rest of his body.

“Like what you see love?”

I didn’t give her a chance to respond, as I gripped the back of her thighs and hoisted her legs around my waist. Her arms wrapped around my neck and my mouth collided with hers in a punishing kiss. I let go of all my anger and pain, pushing all of it into the kiss we were sharing.

I wasn’t influencing her emotions, but I could taste them in the air around us. She was excited, confused and her desire was shooting sparks through me.

We fell to the dirt floor, with her positioned below me, and my body pressing against hers. There were too many clothes between us, but soon we would be back in my room and clothes would become a thing of the past.

We stumbled through my door as she ripped my shirt clea

n off, I pulled away for a moment breathing hard. I forgot how euphoric it was to take the entire life force, I hadn’t been expecting how turned on I became though, especially as we killed together.

“Are you sure about this Unya? Cause once we start, I won’t be able to stop.”