Page 9 of My Best Friend is a Demon

His booming voice shakes the rocks around us and fire flares at his angry tone. “And shifters? What of them?”

“They belong with the humans? They allied themselves with them eons ago. They can die with them now.”

His gaping maw and ghastly grin only widens when I shake my head. “You think you have a choice, my son. I have your mate. I can feel that the bond isn’t there fully, you haven’t claimed her. But she’s yours and you’re hers. I will make sure that you feel all her pain if you don’t do what you’re bound to do. This war is going to be rough and I need all my sons in my army.”

I shake my head, my mind whirling. This is it. “I won’t do it unless she’s free and you never touch her again.”

He settles back on his giant haunches, rubbing his chin. “Of course I will agree to that. My very best demons will deliver her home.”

“Then I will stay and do what you ask. But she will always be safe.”

He nods. I hold out my hand and he draws a talon along my wrist, blood dripping onto a piece of paper that magically appears. “It’s sealed. She’s free.”

I rush to her and drag her away, my heart breaking at the tears in her pale eyes. “Go. Stay sharp and stay safe, my love. I’ll always watch over you.”

She holds me tight and the feel of her tears soaking my skin tears me apart, flays my soul. “Go now. You’ll be alright. Just be careful with the veil.”

And with those cryptic words, Fee and Fie, my father’s best minions drag her away, her cries ripping my heart apart.

My father grins. “Young love. So pure and sentimental. It’s easy to twist young fools, you know.”

I nod my head but I’ve got my eyes open and when I hear a ruckus at the veil, I nod my head. The Devil’s eyes go wide when he realizes his mistake. “You tricked me.”

I smile cruelly. A trick I definitely learned at my father’s knee. “I learned from the best. That will be my friends and they’ve got Angel. I knew that you couldn’t resist trying to have it both ways. But you’ve made a fatal mistake. You broke your word. Our vow is now null and void. I don’t owe you a damn thing.”

“I will destroy you, my son. Just as I will them.”

I nod my head. “I have no doubt that you’ll try. But I’ve got something you don’t.”

“Love,” he snorts.

“Yes. And a mate that would gladly love me forever until the end of time. You have never been able to say the same.”

And with those words I walk away, free. For the first time in my life I have no one to answer to but me.

And a mate to claim.

ANDERS

“Oh my god! Why didn’t you tell me what you were doing?” Her tears soak my shirt and I smile into her soft, sweet-smelling hair. Like dewdrops on a rose. She’s light to my dark.

“I knew you wouldn’t go.”

She swats me and ducks her head. “What if he hadn’t broken it?”

“Then I would gladly have suffered all of hell’s fire to make sure that you were safe.”

“You’re a bastard.”

I grin. “I never claimed not to be. I’m a demon.”

“Trickster,” growls Saar. “Don’t make me regret helping you.” The sheriff growls behind him.

“I already do.”

But both men leave us and I hold her tight.

“I want to claim you now. I’m free and I need you protected and safe. This is the best way. It will make it almost impossible to kill you unless I die. And that’s no easy feat either,”I chuckle.

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