I desperately wanted his first option to work out but I should have known better than to hope for easy ways out when I seemed to have eaten the fruit of misfortune.
True to Belial’s words, the demon Charon had known I wasn’t one of the dead souls he was supposed to transport. His golden eyes, brighter than my wolf’s had fixed sternly on me until I broke out in a sweat even while surrounded by the intense cold of the environment.
He hadn’t said a single word to me as he stretched out his left palm the way he had done with others. The only difference was that in my case, instead of handing out one single shiny coin like I had seen the others do, I had handed over all three coins that Belial had given me. There was no mistaking the pleased look on his face as he pocketed the money.
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