Page 93 of Blood Vows

The visions blurred now, faster and faster, twisting into years of madness. Vas hiding her. Caring for her. Believing her decades of lies. Watching her decay, her hunger growing. She had manipulated him from the beginning, feeding him revenge, convincing him that his father’s curse had poisoned them all.

The truth burned through me like fire.

His father was never the monster.

His mother was.

She had sold her soul for power, and when it denied her, she used her own children to destroy everything that had once loved her. She had wanted her husband dead so she could claim the darkness through Vas, using him as her weapon.

And now, she had used me too.

The realization tore a scream from my throat, but the sound was lost in the void. The visions shattered, and the darkness surged around me once more, thick and suffocating. The cracked necklace still pulsed at my feet, the demon’s laughter echoing in my skull.

‘Now you see, little Fated Flame… Every lie leads us home.’

The world split open beneath me, fire and shadow swallowing me whole as the brothers shouted my name. Their voices vanished into the roar.

And then there was only silence.

Only… Hell.

And the Demon there who was ready to claim me.

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