This Curse - By Alisha Basso Page 0,80

long moment and I watched him. He was playing a game I knew I couldn’t win, but maybe Patrick could.

He smiled. “I suppose it matters little.” He sighed dramatically. “I fear Voltaire promised him the position of pack master to all the packs in the state.” I looked at him and frowned. “He agreed, said he would give anything for it, so I took his soul,” he smiled.

“Is he?” I demanded. “Is he the master of all the packs in the state?”

Lucifer smiled. “Why yes, he was crowned their king only hours ago.”

I gawked at him. “And now you’re killing him?”

“Yes. He attacked you, my love. I can not allow such actions to go unpunished.” He moved past me and grabbed Patrick’s face, pressing his fingers into his flesh. Patrick screamed as smoke billowed from his face. A stench like nothing I had ever experienced filled the room.

I couldn’t stand it, this was all bullshit. Dream or not, I wouldn’t take the chance.

“Stop!” I screamed at the top of my lungs.

He turned. Lowering his smoking hands, he tilted his head, “What troubles you, my darling?” His brows drew together.

“You have to stop this! Please, what can I do to remove his debt?” I looked at Patrick’s once beautiful face, now charred, and ruined. His tear filled eyes implored me.

“I can think of nothing. A debt this large is not so easily swept away. You have been clear in all things. I may not touch you. I have no power over you. What is left?” He turned, raising his hands again; I flinched, as Patrick’s eyes grew huge.

“I take it all back!”

Lucifer froze. Turning slowly on his heel, he flashed me a smile of pure satisfaction. “In truth?”

I looked at Patrick’s bubbling flesh. The smell that had filled the room from his smoking flesh was sickening me with each passing second and the pain he must have endured made me even more ill. Despite what Lucifer said about this all being a dream, I knew that when I woke up tomorrow, Patrick would be dead. I couldn’t just stand by and let another person be tortured and killed. It would kill a part of my soul.

I drew in a cleansing breath, coughing from the wretched stench that filled my nose. “Take back his debt,” I lifted my chin at his frown. “Heal his wounds and never hurt him directly or indirectly again and I will take it all back.” I felt like my life was flashing before my eyes. The smile that spread across his face sped my heart. Fear at what was to come filled me from head to toe.

Patrick vanished in a puff of smoke and I was naked, in the devils arms.

He laid me down on his bed and lightly stroked my skin with his warm fingertips. I looked at his nakedness, even with his impossible beauty; nothing would ever make this okay.

“I knew you would be mine. I knew you would somehow make the ultimate sacrifice. You for him? How lovely.”

He kissed along my neck. His skin was unnaturally warm smooth as satin as he slid his body along mine. I shuddered as he rose above me. He slid his hands along my legs, his long fingers gliding along my thighs until they met at my knees. He watched my anguished eyes as he slowly parted my thighs.

A small cry slipped passed my lips as he hooked my knees over his broad shoulders, my sex fully exposed to his gaze. A look of conquest filled his eyes. I sucked in a breath, tears flowing freely from my eyes, I jerked at the feeling of his velvety cock pressed lightly at my entrance.

I closed my eyes. I couldn’t believe I had taken it all back.

Wait… I took it all back. Oh, my God, I was so stupid! I opened my eyes and smiled.

Lucifer, poised to push inside me, frowned at my smile. “You are accepting?” He studied my face.

“I took it all back, Lu.”

He smiled and then it slowly fell as the realization of my meaning filled his eyes. He grabbed my thighs and with a wild cry, he thrust his hips forward only to land on his face in the middle of an empty bed.

I was across the room, fully clothed and laughing.

He flew from the bed; his erect penis slapped his stomach as he tore across the room toward me. I lifted my hand and he flew backward. His nude body slammed hard into the giant