Page 133 of Red Ruin

If I ever return to reality, I’ll have to drain my own veins.

Savoring devil venom?

I laugh.

I may as well enjoy the buzz.

There’s nowhere deeper to fall from here.

CHAPTER34

IRIS

Remy wobbles and laughs.I feel just as loose, but in a light, floaty kind of way. Like I’ve lost a weight I’ve been carrying foryears.

Did he suck out some trauma with that venom?

“How? Wha—?” Vhex stammers. He’s so shocked that his dick-stensions retract.

I pull off of his cock while I can, braving one last, long drag along his ridges. Shaking, I fall limp and sticky on the bed.

Holy stars.

I take my first deep breath in hours.

But Vhex’s least favorite thing?

Giving me room to breathe.

“It’s gone.” He frantically grabs my waist and traces my veins to my mound. “I’m gone?”

I guide his hand to my stomach. He needs my touch, but I don’t want his fingers anywhere near my throbbing clit until I’m sure we all survived that purge.

“No one’s gone,” I reassure him, stroking his horn as he fingers my veins.

Remygiggles. “Are you quite sure?”

He wears my blood like smeared lipstick, his marble skin weirdly hot and coated in a sheen of sweat.

“What happened to you guys?” I smooth Remy’s hair as I check in with his soul.

His shadowy silks bounce and twirl, coming close, then coyly pulling away as if coaxing me to chase them.

I gape.

Is his soul trying to playtagwith me?

While Remy laughs, Vhex shakes back and forth, muttering. When he can’t find what he’s looking for inside my veins, he shifts to claw his hair.

What a fucking mess.

“Did you not want me healed?” I snatch his hands before he slices open his scalp with his suddenly knife-sharp devil claws.

Maybe Vhex did want me as his servant.

No. I quickly dismiss the thought.

I don’t always understand Vhex and what he’s spouting off, but he couldn’t have lied when our souls were tied.

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