The smile, the vibrant and lively smile that the kiss had caused made him smile, though his visage was far from anything friendly. The normal Jade of his eyes had turned into a Ruby red, back lit with fire from the pit. His flesh seemed smoked, as if he?d stood too close to a roaring fire, or had been held above it. His arms seemed to move with something underneath the flesh, causing the veins and muscles to bulge at different times.

His thoughts flashed back to when he?d first met her. He was a stranger in a strange land. He thought he was nothing more than a hunter, an ex priest who had nothing to show for his life, except a flock he left with nothing but misunderstood reasons as to why he had to retired. The bar they?d met in, talked in, and he felt like a priest at times then as well. He would listen, she would talk. He met her friends, made some of his own, but he found himself spending more and more time with her, and that he was enjoying that time. The night he moved in to kiss her, hoping that she didn?t have anyone, or want another, he knew. He knew that he?d found his mate, and that nothing would come between them, until everything else he thought he?d known, came undone.

Demons showed up, one in particular, and turned his world upside down, and was intent on making him, her Truth, the next great destroyer of worlds.


?Things have changed, and after we get our daughter, we?ve got a lot to discuss Sidonie, but I need you to trust me with the blades, you will get them back.? He moved closer, and reached for her hands, hoping that she didn?t pull away from him. ?I want to be sure that you are fighting fire...with fire.?