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As Remy spirits me away, Vhex’s angry roar echoes through the dark.

CHAPTER31

VHEX

Mother.Fucking. Bat.FUCKER.

Hellfire boils through my veins, undoing all that sweet sexual healing.

My cut-off silks seethe.

She’s gone.

“AZRID!” I toss a fireball at the last wisp of shadow fading through my wall.

The flames slide off stone and pool around my claw-tipped toes.

The shadows snicker.

Azrid’s shitty voice nips at my ear.

“Mine,” I hiss.

She’s the only fucking one strong enough to save me from myself.

She’s THE ONE.

Maybe like the woman who brought the devil king to his knees—the one who who took his venom foryearswithout caving to the hellfire’s burn.

Trezzoran was THE devil king, spawned into our world. Then he fell for my ancestor. Family lore says he fuckinghappilyaccepted her chains.

I didn’t get it.

Now I do.

She tamed the monster like Iris is taming me.

Iris is mine.

Not Azrid’s.

Not anyone else’s.

Mine.

Mine.

Mine.

Mine.

MINE.

I snarl through layers of rock, tracking his shitty shadows.

Azrid doesn’t answer, but he can’t hide her from me for long.

I’m in her veins.

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