Katie's Hope

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Kris hesitated. He'd never had a conversation with Rhyn where the two of them didn't behave like testosterone-plagued teenagers. He didn't want to agree to Rhyn's terms, but the side of him willing to take in a creature like Sasha emerged again. At the end of the day, he'd try to do what was right. If Katie wanted to go to the convent, he'd be the last to argue with her. It'd keep her out of his hair, safe, and the powerful force that was Rhyn working for him.

"We have a deal," he said. He withdrew the sheathed dagger and tossed it to Rhyn. "I still can't believe … I shouldn't be surprised. You fuck up everything."

"I know," Rhyn said, unaffected. "Who do I kill first?"

* * *

Katie stood in the back doorway to the castle, hoping Rhyn returned soon. Snow fell from the sky to be either burned by the pyre or to cover the red mess that was the rest of the park.

Immortals lined the perimeter of the park shoulder to shoulder and roved the interior of the castle. Kris had assigned her a babysitter and ordered her to spray herself down with the skunk spray so she wouldn't draw any unwanted attention.

Something tickled her neck, and she looked down to see the first of the letters of her tattoo flutter to the ground. They fell delicately one by one, like feathers. She grabbed at one of them, then let it fall. It was what needed to happen. He had to let her go, but the sense of yearning and pain was too strong for her to sleep.

She sank down with her back to the door, not caring about the cold day or the snow that seeped through her clothes to chill her. She stared at the blood-colored letters as the snow buried them. She'd tried opening a portal soon after Rhyn left to return to the Sanctuary but failed. Though there was a wall of Immortals between her and the forest, she felt the demon watching her, waiting for its opening, now that she was no longer protected. Again she found herself hoping Gabriel took her soon.

Darkyn. He wasn't like the other demons. None of them had gotten into her head.

"You're like bait out here." Kris's voice made her tense. "Go to your chamber. I'll have you taken back to the Sanctuary tomorrow."

"I want to go back today," she replied.

"Not until I find Ully and test the vial you brought me. If it's not the immunity blood, then Ully will need you here in his lab."

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