Page 21 of My Demon Husband
“Then I guess you’ll have to live the rest of your life apart from him. It’s your choice, really.”
I look deep into her blue eyes, and my whole body fills with so much rage, so much hatred. I don’t think I’ve ever hated hermore. Not even when she fucked every demon and demoness she set her eyes on.
“Fine.”
I hate her, but I love Yu-jin more. And if there’s a chance she takes me to him, what choice do I have.
So I kiss her.
Her black lips taste bitter, which seems fitting considering the bile sitting at my throat just from looking at her.
“But I swear to your life and mine, if you don’t take me to him, I’ll kill you anyway and enjoy every single moment.”
“Ah, I missed you so much, my dear Lucian.” She sighs, and my world goes dark. As dark as my soul feels without Yu-jin.
CHAPTER SEVEN
I’LL DO ANYTHING FOR LOVE.”
I open my eyes.
To my surprise, I’m not lying down. I’m standing. And immediately, I’m welcomed by the familiar surroundings of Infernus. The coral-bright sky. The sulfur in the air that pervades anything and everything and the sand dunes of Tormentia are as vast as they are dangerous.
“I have to say I haven’t missed home at all.”
It’s the truth. Earth has always been more appealing, more inviting. Not just to me. But to most of my kind.
“Awww, but, dear husband, home has missed you.” Her voice, like usual, sounds like nails on a chalkboard.
It wasn’t always that way. There was a time when her voice was a melody I couldn’t get enough of. But that was before her betrayal. Hermultiplebetrayals.
Or adventures, as she liked to call them.
Her silhouette appears before me, but visibility is so limited that I can barely make out anything else.
“Too bad there isn’t anything at home I care about.” I try to bring my hands up, but I stop midway, the chains around my wrists and feet blocking me from fight or flight.
“How could you say that?I’mhere.” She steps within feet of me, and I can’t help the bile that climbs up my throat.
She’s wearing her wedding dress, a long, puffy dress full of lace and bad memories she stole from a poor woman on Earth almost two hundred years ago. The veil draped over her face does little to hide her ruthless eyes or horrible smile.
I hate this woman. I hate this woman so much. But I don’t care. All I care about is him. He must be here, right? He has to be.
“I stopped caring about you the moment I found half of Infernus buried deep inside you,” I snarl, but I know she won’t listen to reason. That’s how she’s always been. That’s what she’s always done. Taken what she wants, when she wants it.
And to think, once upon a time, it was one of the things about her that charmed me.
“Oh, Lucian, still dwelling on the past, haunted by the same ghosts. Move on, would you?”
I growl at her.
“I have moved on. And the moment I did, you came back and tried to hurt me. To hurt us. Yu-jin!” I shout the name sitting on the edge of my tongue since I woke up.
What if he isn’t here? What if I gave in to her trap for nothing?
“Lucian!” I hear a voice in the distance.
“Yu-jin, are you okay?”
