Page 6 of Burn in Ruin
I was useless to Lily after such failure. The only thing I could do for her now was to hope I could push Azrael enough that he would finally do what needed to be done.
As if he could sense my intent, we locked gazes for a moment and I willed my desire to him, even though I knew he couldn’t hear me.
Do it, Purgatory’s Angel.
Kill me.
AZRA
Orion’s heat beat at my back and sizzled the sensitive quills of my feathers.
But it was Kaito’s faint plea that had me startled.
Kill me.
I shouldn’t have been able to hear his thoughts, but the unmistakable lilt of his voice inside my head couldn’t be denied.
Never mind how I’d heard him.
Why did the idiot want me to kill him?
Fuck. This is going to be harder than I thought.
He was already broken. Unfortunately, breaking him wasn’t my intended task.
I needed him whole.
I needed him more whole than he’d ever been. He needed to abandon the mortal form that he clung to and let his true demon shine through.
That was the only way he’d be powerful enough to travel realms like Cole and Lucifer. Lucifer was a royal, or at least he used to be one. His powers to open portals to Hell came with the role even though he’d lost his throne.
Cole had the skill, but not the power—at least not until he’d discovered the Death Lotus.
Kaito would find the strength to do it too and get us back home. He had to.
That’s the only way he was going to get us all out of this mess.
Rolling the whip over my wrist, I made my way to the male that needed to get his head out of his ass. “All right. Time to go, horn-boy,” I said, wrapping my fingers around one of his horns and yanking his head up.
His ruby irises rimmed with silver stared up at me with resignation.
I wanted to knock some sense into the idiot.
“Oh, one more thing,” Orion said from behind me, his heat strengthening as he approached.
He rested a burning hand on my shoulder and forced me to turn around as he handed me an object.
“You’ll be permitted to take Kaito to the chamber you requested, but you’ll place this where we can document the interaction.” He grinned. “For training purposes, of course.”
I stared at the square box of metal with a shiny disc plastered on the front.
“It’s a recording device, moron,” Kaito supplied, then spit out black blood.
“I know it’s a fucking recording device,” I snapped, even though I definitely had not know what the foreign thing was.
Sam was the technology expert.
Orion patted me, leaving a burn. “I look forward to seeing you work, Purgatory’s Torturer.” The Demigod gave me a grin, then turned his gaze on the demon I was now going to have to legitimately torture. “And you. I hope you come to your senses soon, Kaito. You need to see what Lucifer is trying to do.”
