Page 24 of My Demon Charming

I laugh.

“Sorry.” I wipe my face, hoping to remove any trace of my tears, but it still feels sticky.

“My sweet, sweet boy, don’t apologize. Ever,” he says, and despite our current predicament, his words still make me feel lighter.

“What are we going to do? He’s fed off you, so he’s already bound you to him, I’m sure. And he drank so much of your blood that he’ll have your powers. We…we’re stuck.”

Lucian looks around us and comes to the same conclusion if his sighing is any indication. Although he doesn’t look as beaten up about it as I feel.

I guess it’s not the first time he’s been trapped.

Which reminds me…

“Can’t Brimfang come save us?”

Lucian purses his lips.

“She would if she could find us. But this spell keeps the world out and us in. I can call, but I doubt she’ll hear me.”

I let out a deep, heavy sigh.

“I wish the power you said is dormant inside me would come out right about now. It’d be helpful, wouldn’t it?”

I purse my lips and fight back more tears.

Lucian bites his lip.

“What?” I ask him.

Maybe I can laugh with him, but I doubt I’ll be entertained whatever his answer.

“Your power.”

“What about it?”

“I could…I can make it come out. If you want.”

What the hell is he talking about? Why is this the first time he’s mentioned it?

“You can?” He nods. “Go on, then. Do it.”

He opens his mouth before shutting it again and reaching for my hands.

“I…it’s not that simple. I want to do it—I can do it, but…I don’t want to hurt you.”

“Why would it hurt me?”

He purses his lips into a smile, brings my hands to his mouth, and gives them a kiss.

“It wouldn’t. At least not physically. But after what he’s put you through, I don’t know if it would hurt you mentally. I would never want to do something like that.”

What…what the hell does he mean?

“Why would it hurt me mentally?”

He takes a deep breath, gives my hands another kiss, and says, “Because I can unlock your powers if I make love to you.”

I pull back. Did he just say…?

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