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“I know you’re a man of your word so I want you to make me a promise Lucifer.”
“And what would that be?”
“Protect her. Keep her safe I don’t care who you have to hurt or kill, you do whatever it takes to keep her safe.”
“With my life.”
Cain stared at me for a moment, as if he was hesitant to believe me,
“As long as I am alive I will protect her from anything and anyone who seeks to harm her. No one will hurt her. Not ever again.”
Cain nodded before taking a few steps toward the island,
“Good. That’s good but I still need you to answer one last question,”
I shrugged my shoulders,
“Anything,”
“Do you love my daughter?”
More than anything.
I couldn’t just say yes. This man deserved to know the truth. The truth of how I felt and what Catalina meant to me.
“Catalina is my everything. She is the reason I wake in the morning and the reason I sleep soundly at night. She is the being that brings endless sweet dreams and the being that chases away my nightmares. She is my world, my life. My Morningstar.”
Cain’s head peaked up at that last word, but I wasn’t done,
“I wish I could stand here and say that I love your daughter but I can’t, because what I feel for Catalina goes beyond love. If she asked me to, I would go to war for her, I would level cities and crumble mountains if she wanted me to. But I would also give up everything just to have her.”
I stood and made my way around the island until I was face to face with Cain,
“Make no mistake Cain, your daughter means everything to me, and anyone, and I do mean anyone, who seeks to harm her will meet their end at my hands, even my own flesh and blood. Is that clear enough for you?”
“Crystal.”
“Good.”
Cain and I stared at each other for just a moment longer. I understood why he asked, I understood why he was hesitant but he needed to understand that Catalina was not just a random fling for me, that this was not just a random relationship that I would toss to the side in a few weeks. This thing with Catalina was eternal and he needed to understand that.
Cain was the first one to move as he walked past me and to the door,
“Oh and Cain,” I turned to face him,
“Yes, my King?”
“I’ll let the disrespect slide this time because you are Catalina’s father,”
I inched a few steps closer, letting the shadows slowly consume us. Trapping us in the darkness of tortured souls. The endless pleas of mercy echoing around us,
“But don’t you ever forget who you are speaking to.”
I inched closer, bringing my face closer to his,
“DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!”
I debated using the shadows to throw him across the room, but I knew Catalina wouldn’t like that.
