Chapter 7-02
Silence settled for a few seconds, because I didn't know what he was getting at. That I can only ever touch him? I swallowed a little, biting down on my lower lip when he pressed the rug into the wound.
"What does that have to do with anything?"
"You are aware, that you are bonded with Lucifer, are you not? The Knife of The Blessed, linked you two." Our eyes've met as this sentence left his lips, and his hands stopped moving on my chest. I think I caught a glimpse of vulnerability in Jude's eyes, and I was starstruck by the sudden experience. The last time I have seen this look, I was dying, bleeding out on Harvis's balcony in the dim moonlight... I was cold... so cold. I could hear Lucifer coaxing me into letting go of my life in the back of my head. Exhaustion, pain and t
