Page 12 of The Devil's Redemption

He tells me how strong I am. How fierce the fighter inside of me is. He makes me promises that we will be together again.

He finds me in the darkest of dark and pulls me into his light.

It is the only thing getting me through this.

When all is said and done, I’m vaguely aware of them dragging my weary body down another set of steps and discarding me onto a damp floor.

My body hurts everywhere. My heart is shattered.

When they stick the needle in my arm, shooting poison into my veins, I let go of the only piece of my soul I have left.

I wished for death.

Exactly like Jasper said I would.

Chapter Five

Pain.

Warmth.

Pleasure.

Darkness.

An endless cycle that leaves me craving, dying, aching, flying.

I hear sobs and moans drifting through the air in the cold cellar. Someone is here again. From my place in the corner of this dark and dank cell, I see light flood in from the door at the top of the stairs. It blocks their face, and I’m not sure if it’s a tormentor or an angel.

Sometimes Blade visits me. Is he here now? I blink as I hear a dark cackle just before something grips me tightly, and I’m pulled across the mossy cobblestone, away from the corner I’m curled up in.

Pain.

It’s not Blade. It can’t be him. He’s brutal but would never hurt me like this. I struggle to tear my arms from theirs as they cover me with their weight.

“Princess…”

I whimper as Jasper’s voice taunts me.

My head screams at me to push the weight off of my body, but my muscles are working against me. They’re limp. My fight doesn’t last long before my entire body relaxes into the stones beneath me.

Warmth.

Like I’m bathing in the sunshine on a hot day at the beach.

Sunshine.

You are my sunshine.

Pleasure.

Once again, the euphoric feeling I’ve longed for emanates through me, and for a moment, I’m flying. Everything else stays behind, trapped by the weight of gravity, but I’m rising higher and higher. Too quickly, it begins to fade away. I fall, getting sucked into the deepest, darkest pits of the earth.

Darkness.

For too long, or maybe for just a second, I ache. I mourn in the black void, all alone. I beg God to save me. I beg him to kill me.

Pain.

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