“Cat?” Darya requested immediately, greedy my shoulders with heat arms. “What’s unsuitable?”

“Include me,” I blurted. “Please. I discovered one thing.”

I didn’t select the phrases. Had Nightmare chosen them, or was this the curse’s personal command at work? My voice was simply panicked sufficient to be convincing, however I sounded unnatural to my very own ears.

“In fact,” Darya agreed, her eyes large in her face.

And like I’d been led to the slaughter by the kitten, I led Darya to it. She adopted me as I rushed by means of the bushes. I fended off each query she had with tearful, breathless exclamations of there’s a lot blood, I didn’t know what else to do, I’m so scared.

After which we have been within the clearing, and Nightmare stepped out of the darkness with a slow-blooming smile as Darya floor to a halt, her breath hitching.

“Properly executed, Cat,” the goddess praised, her voice low and sensual, sliding alongside my nerves like a caress. “You’ve confirmed very efficient.”

Darya had frozen; I noticed her from the nook of my eye. However I might nonetheless transfer as a result of my physique shook. I gasped down air whereas I nonetheless might.

“Now,” Nightmare mentioned, brushing the backs of her golden fingers over my cheek, “kill her.”

I reared again. What?

“No.”

Nightmare sighed, her eyes narrowing, one stunning, one bloody. “I suppose you are feeling secure beneath his safety. However shields can fall, and he received’t be round perpetually.”

My coronary heart jolted. Demise. The he was apparent. What did she imply he wouldn’t be round perpetually?

“I’ve a bit of plan for that too, my terror. However first—” Her voice modified, rising deeper, tougher, hypnotic. “Kill Darya.”

When Nightmare held out a knife, my hand lifted.

When she gestured for me to show, I confronted Darya.

I regarded my good friend within the eye, noticed panic bleach the color from her brown pores and skin, however I had no energy. Nightmare’s will managed each atom of my physique.

I screamed and ripped on the cage of her management, however I used to be powerless. Ineffective.

I took one step, then one other, and drove the silver dagger so deep into Darya’s abdomen, my hand angled up, that I knew I pierced her coronary heart.

She dropped immediately, her eyes flat and empty, lifeless.

And I died proper there along with her.

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE

CAT

The second Nightmare launched me from the iron grip of her command, my legs went from beneath me. I landed beside Darya, blood soaking into the knees of my denims, the purple damning and shiny. All I might do was stare on the knife buried in my good friend’s abdomen. The knife I’d put there.

Oh god.

Oh god, I killed her.

Nightmare brushed her fingers over my head as she walked previous, her fingernails ripping out strands of hair. I barely felt the sting; I couldn’t take my eyes off Darya, off the knife pushed into her center, the blood pouring from the outlet I’d made. I’d stabbed her within the coronary heart.

I choked on air, my wheezing the one sound within the clearing apart from the sluggish drip of blood hitting the grass.

Darya was lifeless. I killed her.

I actually—oh god—

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