“You’re not,” I promised.
Without asking for permission, I reached out and caught her face between my hands.
The moment my bare skin made contact with her cheeks, the impact hit me like a physical blow. The heat radiating from her was staggering, like touching the surface of the sun, but beneath that heat lay the silence. It was a beautiful, impossible quiet that instantly soothed the raging demon in my blood.
She gasped, her eyes widening as the freezing chill of my hands met the boiling heat of her skin.
“I’m a Nexus demon,” I told her, holding her gaze to lock her into the crushing blue ice of my eyes. “My magic is cold, and my magic is order. Push it into me, Callie. Give me the heat.”
“I’ll hurt you,” she cried, trying to pull her face away, but I held her firmly in place.
“You
