Money. Power. Fame. When a supernatural being knocks at your door and offers you three wishes to change your life, you're damn sure to choose one of those. Who wouldn't?
After accidentally summoning a demon in her kitchen, single mother Yuki Rin mak...
Disasters always came unannounced. To Yuki, it seemed, that her life was on a downward spiral course with failed brakes. There weren't any stops. If raising a three-year-old son hadn't been enough, fate was giving her extra baggage in the form of a tall, handsome, and devilishly wicked seventy-five-year-old demon.
Demon. A snort left her mouth. She didn't remember where it began to go wrong. Was it her words? Was it his deception? Yuki asked herself the same thing over and over again.
Why did she do it?
As she pondered over the reason, her son climbed up on her lap and rested his head in the crook of her arms. Yuki sought a comfortable position on the couch. A glance at her son and she could tell that he was burning with curiosity. What new obsession plagued his mind? Yuki smiled and wondered how these three years passed by so quickly. Yuu, her son, was growing up faster than she could keep track of, and it hurt her to leave him behind for work every day. Her mother didn't like her or her son. Yuki knew it. She was a daughter with no husband, a child her mother was too ashamed of to call her own. How could she let her mother babysit Yuu and not feel guilty? Was that why she did it?
"Mama?"
Yuki was lost in her thoughts. Yuu didn't call again. After a while, she sighed and trailed her fingers through his hair. "Sleep, Yuu-chan. I'll sing you a lullaby."
"Hai," he replied and closed his eyes.
As the notes of her voice carried away in the air, her thoughts drifted back to the eccentric evening she had experienced. As much as she thought about it, her mind still couldn't grasp the whole situation. How did she accidentally summon a demon? A shiver ran down her body. It couldn't be...
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This is the promised new prologue! Hope you guys like it! AND THE NEW COVER:
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This one doesn't have 'The', and I don't have the full image for corrected version, but it's this:
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