I heard people yelling my name over and over, their voices frantic. I focused on them again, the four handsome men I’d taken as my lovers, and recognition slowly dawned. Something of myself fought for control again.
“Kira, you have to let her go!” Jasin yelled.
I shook my head. “I can’t. She’ll destroy everyone if she’s free. She hungers for death and will never be sated until this world is in ruins.”
“Don’t make the same mistakes your mother made,” Auric said.
“I won't. I can contain the Spirit Goddess without becoming corrupted, and then we can use her power to change the world.”
“You might be able to fight her for a few years,” Slade said. “But she’ll corrupt all of us eventually.”
“No!” I roared, both at them and at the Spirit Goddess inside me who fought for control. I couldn’t
