“Angel, do you truly wish to get your revenge?”
August readjusted her grip on her sword as she pointed it at the speaker. “I don’t care how many of you come. I’ll defeat you all.”
“You think I’m here to help her?” He threw his head back and laughed a sweet honeyed sound. “I believe you have me all wrong. For one, that one can’t even see me. I’m not really on her radar. Two, she’s killed some of my precious children before, I want nothing more than to rip the flesh from her bones and bare her blood. Her and her family.”
August hesitated and her blade flickered as she did so. “You’re lying, you’re just trying to buy time.”
“August, I may be a lot of things, but a liar I am not.” His words held no mockery and there was all edge in his tone now.
As the woman advanced on her fallen friend
