The god complex (Book one of The Devil's Daughter trilogy)

Chapter twenty-three.

"Seven days and then he's mine, forever." Her voice chills my bones and makes my heart beat a mile a minute, she stands above me holding me down. She spits in my eye and laughs like a maniac, ripping strands from my scalp she scoops me up and makes me stand. I am at eye level with him, he sits there in all his beautiful glory, on her throne. His cheekbones seem sharper, his eyes inkier than the sky, his lips full and drenched in blood, she's done something to him. He sits there his eyes never leaving mine shackled to the throne, he tugs on the chains causing them to whine, his eyes are wild as Luna drops my hair and strides over to him. She smiles at him and he eases up on the chains and sits there like a loyal subject, she grabs his face in one hand and his arm in the other. She motions for someone in the wings to hold me down and watch whatever happens next. They flank me on both sides, pinning my arms behind me and hold me down on my knees.

"NIGHT! NIGHT! LOOK AT ME!" He tries to turn his neck but I hear a crack and I scream, her cronies try to keep me still but I rip through them, kicking and screaming the whole time as Luna laughs manically. "NIGHT!" I push past the broken bodies of the guards and stand at the feet of Luna, she sits on the throne alone, Night's body nowhere to be found, but there is a pool of blood at her feet. "Where is he?" I grab the collar of her shirt and pull her into my face, something warm and wet falls on my bare feet, I look down and see Luna's arm dripping blood.

"Why don't you ask him yourself?" A blur moves past the corner of my eye and throws me forward, spiraling over the throne and out of the window, glass shatters and rains down on me, slicing me to ribbons. Luna looms over me as I dangle out of the window, her smile splits her face as she sees what is coming to me. "Night. You know what to do." I am lifted from near death and then thrown out into the throne room, I land on my feet and slide ready for an attack.

"Night, you don't have to do this. She is just using you." I spin around searching the room for him, but he finds me first, he drops from the ceiling and lands right on top of my chest. He pins my legs and arms down so I have nowhere to go.

"Do you mean like how you used me Fire." His voice is heavy and angry, he hardens his hold on my arms making me squirm and look into his eyes, which are cold, empty, and black with a white iris. His eyes search my face as I look at him in horror and then he smiles. He leans in close to my face and tries to kiss me but I turn away from him. "What you don't like me anymore," he whispers into my hair making me shudder against him. "You did this, you did this to me Fire. Not Luna but you." He lets my arms and legs go and stands, I lay there flat on my back and begin to cry, he's right. I turned him into a monster, not Luna but me.

"Finish her," Luna sings. I rise to my feet holding in my sobs as Night looms over me. He grabs me up by my throat, smothering my sobs and laughing while he does so. He strikes quickly and plunges his hand deep into my chest making me gasp then cry out in pain as he closes his hand around my heart. He snatches my heart out and drops me to the floor, leaving me cold and empty, my eyes glaze over as he saunters over to Luna and gives her my heart. She laughs with joy as I watch blankly at the two of them, he turns to look at me sitting there, his eyes are empty as they watch me. I fall over on the floor and lay there, Luna stands and strides over to me holding my heart, Night follows close behind. "Here Night. You decide what happens to our little demon girl." She hands him my heart, he looks at me on the floor then at my heart and tosses it down to me.

"I want nothing to do with her anymore." He shuts his eyes turns and grabs Luna, he pulls her close to him then kisses her right in front of me. My hand slides over to my small beating heart and pulls it close to me, neither of them notice as I start to gasp in pain. I close my hand over my heart and begin to crush it in my hand, slowly causing myself pain and killing me. He can live without me but I can't live without him, my eyes dim as I see Luna fall to the ground dead, Night drops to the floor and scoops me into his arms, crying. I reach up and wipe his eyes, he holds me close and keeps me warm as my body goes cold. "Fire, I'm so sorry. I tried to save you but I just ended up hurting you."