Accidentally Married To A Demon - Mila Young Page 0,39

I couldn't."

"What, were they out of your reach?"

"Yes, and... no. They are within my little realm of influence, but..."

"But what? Why are they still around?"

"Moira made a deal with the vampires," he said, sounding exasperated. "They made similar demands of her to clear the contract that we made, and... well, she could not deliver."

I narrowed my eyes, inching closer to him on the bed. "What... what are you getting at?"

"That is why I didn't want you to make a deal with the vampires. And it is why I will help you. I can't lose anyone else that I care about."

I wanted to smile at hearing that he admitted to caring, except my insides were iced over to hear the vampires killed my auntie. And I just made a deal with them for an impossible payment.

God. Were they going to kill me too?

Chapter 13

It probably wasn't the best idea to head back into town, but there were things that I needed to sort out, and I couldn't do them with Rog around.

I did know that he was a distraction that would have my mind on anything but the matter at hand.

"Why, Moira?" I whispered. "Were you tricked into a contract like I was, or were you actually trying to find something? Were you looking for something in particular?"

There was no answer in the gentle morning wind whipping across the farmland.

"I'm not just talking to myself," I announced, looking around. "I mean, I know that your ghost was probably a trick to get me out of New York and into this vampire paradise, but on the off-chance that you're actually a ghost and hanging around here, I could really use a little help. A hint, something? Anything?"

I looked around the open plains, taking a deep breath. Nothing was different, aside from the lowing from a few distant cows. Of course, Moira wasn't there to hear me. It had all been a trick, a lie, all just to get me to this fucking place, for whatever reason.

As the silence continued, I shook my head, dropping down onto my haunches on the side of the road, letting my hair fall down in front of my face.

Sure, the whole place was as deserted as it could be, but I still didn't want anyone to see the tears rushing down from my eyes. There was nothing for me to do but look around and wait, all while hoping that something would work out for me in the end. That I wouldn’t be killed.

A plan. I needed a plan. A way to get out of this. Desperation clung to me. I didn't know how I would get out of the agreement that I had with the vampires, but maybe if there was another way of breaking the contract, I would be able to avoid any price that I would have to pay anyone else.

But if this was the same thing that Moira had been looking into, maybe they weren't going to take my leaving them without their hundred barrels of wine.

Rog said that they killed my aunt because she couldn't pay them what they wanted. Or maybe it was because she wouldn't. Maybe she had tried to find another way, and they didn't like it.

"This," I growled. "This is why I left the whole magical community behind. Give anyone that much power and it always goes to their heads. All this fucking drama is going to make me have white hair."

I laughed at myself, hoping that there was nobody else around to hear me still conversing with myself. Aside from a couple of animals that were starting to wander through.

"Of course, I can't be sure if they actually are animals," I muttered. "Any skin walkers around here? Anybody getting their jollies off to watching some random woman on the street?"

There was, of course, no telling if they would even speak to me. Or if they even spoke English.

"You're getting paranoid in your old age, Nessie." I looked around one more time to make sure that I wasn't being followed before continuing on my way.

All the way down to the village again.

It was a little difficult to force one step in front of the other knowing what the place was. Not that I had anything against fae; they had more than proven themselves willing to live and let live, as dangerous as they were. Still, with everything that I knew, just wandering in like a girl in a red hoodie was going to get me killed.

Bram was the