Rock Johnson said matter-of-factly, "What's the point of keeping something that's useless?"
Lilian shuddered again. "Useless thing" was referring to the clothes, but it also seemed to be referring to her. She felt that when the demon's patience ran out and he still couldn't get her soul, she would be useless to him and would be burned by him.
Looking at those clothes again, Lilian felt a pang of sadness, a sense of shared loss and sympathy.
Perhaps it's a case of fighting poison with poison; when sadness comes, heartache goes away.
Lilian bowed her head and said, "I cannot accept these. Please dispose of them as you see fit."
Rock Johnson remained silent for a long time. "You still won't accept it? Because it wasn't given to you by Parish?"
He could no longer possess Parish; if she t
