What was happening?
Apparently, I knew some sort of foreign language and my head still felt mildly cold, like someone or something was inside it.
“Watch.” The voice whispered.
I gulped as Cassius stepped away from me.
What had just happened?
My movements felt fuzzy, unsure.
“We’ll be in touch.” Cassius opened the door wider. “But do not fault me, if Alex comes after her. They are mated — they will die without one another.”
“Tsk, tsk,” Timber scowled. “Telling the little human elf lies. Death only occurs if he loves her and she him… And the siren upstairs, the only thing he’s in love with… is himself.”
I jerked at the truth of his words. Waiting for Cassius to deny it. Waiting for him to tell me to run back into Alex’s arms.
Waiting for that love, I’d so desperately craved from anyone or anything all of my life.
But he said nothing.
“Good evening.”
That was it.
Timber opened the door to a black Mercedes and helped me inside. When he closed it softly behind me, I flinched.
Minutes later, we were pulling away from the only real home I’d ever known.
And seconds after that, I began to softly cry.
My tears, however, were red.
Timber
“HERE.” I SHOVED a white handkerchief in her direction. Naturally, she didn’t take it, she was too busy staring at the blood on her fingertips and from the sound of it, in the beginning stages of hyperventilating.
With a curse, I wiped both her hands and then her cheeks. My hands were quick, my movements precise, though my heart could hardly understand what I was looking at — what I was seeing before my very eyes.
I had seen her.
In my dreams.
I always saw her.
I yearned for her in ways that should be impossible for someone of my kind. I’d confessed to Sariel before his death that I was having visions.
And the angel had laughed at me.
It was the first time I’d ever seen an archangel laugh — especially one as morose and loathsome as Sariel.
“Such a time as this.” He’d repeated the words that long ago had awoken my heart, causing it to beat again in a slow, warm rhythm.
Demons had hearts.
But the connection between our hearts and our spirits had been severed. That was why we were evil by nature. We had no conscience, no nagging feeling when we do something bad. We had no sense of right and wrong.
Power.