Page 61 of Fallen Demon

“I agree that when we find it, we should secure it,” Farrah said. “No matter what it does. Better safe than sorry.”

Jasmin and Tanner exchanged a long, tense look.

The king of the underworld exhaled. “Agreed.”

“So, where’s the dagger?” Wyatt asked me.

Shit.

I opened my mouth but closed it when Lily appeared in the main doorway. “You have a visitor,” she said, looking from Tanner, to Jasmin, to me.

She stepped aside and gestured to Abbie.

I turned on my seat to face her. “Abbie, everything okay?”

She nodded. “I think so.” She glanced at King Tanner. “May I?”

“Of course.” He gestured for her to walk in. “You’re a guest.”

“Thank you.” She walked toward me and held a book up, which I only noticed now.

I stood. “What’s that?”

“My great-grandmother’s diary.” She turned the book. It was small, with a torn leather cover, and yellowed pages. “She wrote about the dagger.”

“What?”

She opened the book and handed it to me. I held the book and stared at the neat handwriting on the pages. On half of one page, there was a drawing of the dagger.

Now everyone was up from their seats and hovering around us.

Abbie pointed to a paragraph on the page. “She says the dagger can change a supernatural being, including their powers.”

“How?” Tanner asked. He was right beside us, his eyes on the book.

“My great-grandmother never tested it, but she knew this. I don’t know how, it doesn’t say. At least not the parts I’ve read.” Abbie glanced at me. “According to her, the one yielding the dagger has to have immense power, otherwise they will be changed too.”

“But how does it work?” Jasmin asked. She was right beside Tanner.

“Again, this is only theory,” Abbie warned, “but she says the dagger bearer should hold the dagger to the supernatural’s chest, push its power inside him, and order it to change him, and apparently, the dagger will know what exactly you want to change.”

I scanned the page. “Does she mention how it changes them?”

Abbie nodded. “You can make them mortal, weak, powerless, or if they are good, you can make them evil.”

I sucked in a sharp.

“What if they are evil and you want to turn them good?” Lacey asked exactly what I was thinking.

Abbie showed her a small smile. “That too.”

Lacey looked at me and I held her gaze, then I turned to Tanner and Jasmin. “I might be jumping to conclusions here, but what if Ylena and Rhodes wanted the dagger to make Adona mortal? She would be killable.”

“And they would become the rulers,” Tanner mused, his voice low.

“That seems plausible,” Jasmin said, a crease between her delicate brows.

“Let’s say that’s not their plan,” Zad said. “This is still a powerful dagger. We can’t let them get it.”

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