Lucifer She was gone again. This time she slipped right through my fingers. I thought I finally had my out, a way to make her mine. Xynia had strut through the halls proud as s**t of herself. I wanted to rip her to shreds. Not the way I typically did, but put her through so much pain that she wouldn’t recover. My Beast was hungry for her blood. We wanted to make her physically hurt the way we did. The High Council had their beady eyes on me all hours of the day. They taunted me. Everyone was watching and waiting for me to break. But I had no choice. This was the only way, Ember had to freely choose me, she had to leave her mortal body and choose eternity with me. I paced around my kingdom, doing anything to keep my mind occupied and shut the thoughts of Ember out. She had asked to be r

