Bound to Him [Dark Temptation Book One]

“Please.” I watched as the woman begged for her baby’s life. Her beloved husband was laying on the floor. His eyes were opened, lifeless, staring at nothing. “I beg you, please,” she begged again. The poor wife was being held hostage with two people held her in place as she watched her baby on their hands, ready to be sacrificed. Those people were merely watching her. No one said anything. All of them were wearing a hooded mantle. They turned away from her, heading to a round table while carrying her baby. “No! Oh, God! Please, no!” she screamed again yet nobody listened to her. Ignoring her like she was not even there. One of the hooded people put the baby on the table as her cries were surrounding the room. Echoing like it was hinted something. She was merely, like what? A day old? Yet her cries sounded like she was asking for help. She didn’t want to die. The hooded person raised a knife right on top of the baby, ready to pierce it through her heart. “NOOO!!!” the woman screamed again in agony. This was it. This was the end of her baby. She would be ruined. She had nothing anymore. She would soon fall to the deepest down of hell. But not that fast. I directed my eyes to the baby as her eyes were on me. No, she was not looking at me. She just blinked her eyes and by coincidence, hers were directed at me. Those beautiful blue eyes, the same eyes as her mother. I smirked; you are damn lucky, little girl. With one fast movement, I cut the hooded person’s hand, silently as his hand fell to the floor together with the knife. He screamed in pain where the rest of his people gasped, looking for the person who did that. Unfortunately, I was no person. I was something more. I was standing near the person with one hand where he was still screaming by holding his missing arm. I could hear gasps from the remaining people. I looked to the side where I could see their faces into horror. Puzzled as well. Probably questioning on how the hell I could enter here. Afterall… Demons weren’t allowed at the church. Well, that was a silly superstition. Of course, we could enter. We just needed to be strong enough to endure the holiness in this place. s**t, I thought I was too f****d up already. But anyway. “Y-You…” I turned to the hooded person. “How could you—“I didn’t give any chance to him. I sliced his head and left his body. His head fell to the wooden floor where his people were screaming, looking for an escape, even abandoning the poor lady. Too bad that they couldn’t escape anymore. All of them were heading to the door, knocking, yelling, begging for someone to open the door, and released them. The woman stood silently watching me walking slowly towards her. She knew who I was. She knew why I was here. I stopped in front of her. Smirked. Amused by her reaction. Her blue eyes were watery. Her baby was currently safe. For now. From those people. But not from me. “How is it going to be?” “What do you mean?” “Just one wish from you and I will eliminate them. Sending them straight to where I belong and you could live happily ever after with your daughter,” I said. “You do know that’s not going to happen. There’s no happily ever after to my daughter. Not with you around.” Sassy. I was beginning to think that her daughter was going to be the same as her. Pretty being with a brave heart. That would be interesting. “And you’re not going to let anything happened to my daughter. You marked her the second she was born,” she added. That was true though. Even without her had to wish something from me, I would not let anything happened to her daughter. “That’s her destiny.” She shook her head. “You and your father forced it to be her destiny. What I had with him was not a lie. He loved me. I loved him.” I giggled. Was this woman that stupid? “We, demons, unable to love, my dear.” “That’s when you’re wrong. You’re just scared to be in love. You’re scared love will be your weakness. And although I know you are here to protect my daughter, I won’t let you have her.” “You don’t have any choice. Not even her.” I walked back slowly with my eyes kept locking with hers. “You’ve sent her to me the second you laid eyes with him. And when you gave birth to her, her fate has been sealed. With me.” “Please, leave her—No!” she suddenly screamed and ran past me. I turned and saw a woman grabbed the knife and ran in front of the table. I moved fast, grabbing her hand, and pulled her away from the baby. Holding her in place. “Oh, no, you don’t, lady.” “P-Please! You have to understand. That baby will be our nightmare. Human’s nightmare if she’s alive,” she stated and saw the woman grabbed her baby away. Moving her away from us. From me. “You will see her again in hell when we killed her. It doesn’t make any difference even if you saved her.” “Oh, right. Yes, you’re right. I could see her again when she died.” I glanced at the woman and she was just looking at me. “Unfortunately,” I paused and pushed my bare hand straight to her chest as she choked out blood. Some of it hit my shirts. Ah, s**t. I loved this shirt. Oh, well. I looked back at her. “Her soul is still white and untainted; she will be sent straight to the f*****g heaven. That is…one place that I won’t let her go there.” And I pulled my hand with her heart on my hand. She fell to the floor, joining her friend. I dropped her heart and turned again to the woman. She was being a stubborn b***h. f**k, that was so rude of me. But I was right. She was being a b***h to me. Whatever. Whether she liked it or not, I would walk away from this damned place, with her baby…with me. Even if I had to…end her life. Too bad that she was so pretty. My other kind would like to have her. “I ask you again, how is it going to be?” Time for play.