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“Hazel!” Sean knelt beside her.
“I’m fine,” she rasped.
Good, then the next important question: “Did it work?”
“I think so … but something felt wrong.”
A shudder rolled through my body.
The smoke dissipated, revealing a figure in the center.
At least seven feet tall and wide as a bear, the figure stood in the circle, his skin pale and his muscles pulsating with his hard, enraged breathing. His arms turned black from the elbow down and his hands were long, sharp claws. He wore black slacks, which were ripped from his thick thighs to his ankle and didn’t really go with the rest of the picture.
Large bat-like wings spread behind his back, as much as they could inside the circle. Sharp hooks like claws curled at the top of the wings.
Leathery horns curled around his head. His black hair was longer, down to the middle of his back, and his eyes had turned completely black—and stared straight at me.
The demon was here.
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With a roar, Leviathan ran toward us.
Only to slam into the circle’s invisible walls.
Baring his sharp teeth, he brought his hands up. Dark magic enveloped his arms and rushed to the circle.
Hazel gritted her teeth and placed a hand on the circle. Bright light shone from it, and Leviathan stumbled back, dazed with her magic.
“What happened?” I asked, confused.
The demon was here; it had worked. Nothing had gone wrong.
She glanced at me. “Can’t you feel it?”
“Feel what?”
“He’s stronger than I thought he was,” she started. “The moment he realized what was happening, he fought me. To bring him here, I had to tether him to here, to something here, more specifically, to someone.”
“What are you saying?”
“I’m sorry, but I ended up binding him to you.”
“WHAT?”
At that, Leviathan stilled. He had been paying attention to what we were saying. Slowly, his demon form faded. In less than five seconds he went from being an ugly beast, to an annoyingly handsome man, who was wearing only pants.
And nothing else.
His body was pure, well-chiseled muscles.
I silently reprimanded myself for noticing.
“I’m sorry,” Hazel said, looking from me to him, and back to me. “I didn’t mean to. I thought it would be a line from there to here. But with him fighting me, I ended up using too much magic and I might have recited a word or two wrong.”
Leviathan crossed his big arms in front of his naked, ripped chest. “I can feel it,” he said through gritted teeth. “The bond.”
Hell, I didn’t want to be bound to him. “Can you undo this?”
