Without worrying about the consequences, I pulled my hands from his. “You can’t seriously think I’d be okay with helping you summon a demon even more powerful than the ones you’ve already called here. It’s too dangerous.”
A frown creased his brow, but he still looked almost too relaxed, as if the outcome of our argument was a foregone conclusion, and he was only allowing me to make my protests because he knew he’d wear me down in the end. “You need to think about this, Miranda,” he said softly. “Think about the Castillos, these people you claim to care about. I don’t want to hurt any more of them…but I will if you won’t help me.”
I wasn’t surprised by this threat; I’d been expecting it. “By helping you, I’d be putting them just as much at risk.” And the whole world, I thought, but I doub
