HAT WAS BEFORE AD

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a long period of decades that she had waited, wi

ected across time like snake skins. She was known as Salith, Veska, Leo

t, she was

going to finish wha

infernal rune below her collarbone, the mark of her covenant with Lucifer pu

night under the red moon, also kn

old around the red moon that hung in perfect alignment with

her years ago, in sleep and re

ueworld and the Otherworld. Use

he bastard realms. She knew her target's father hadn't been human, and its mother h

for a purpose. But ma

ign that the infernal veil was thinning, and her

er plan was for Adam to climax beneath the blood moon, an act that would fractur

ns. And Elizabeth would remain immo

m's

bizarrely clean

n't yet know it was living its final night. The moon...full, red, and

dn't notice

refused to obey. His body was wiry, thin to the point of concern, a frame built more from

her.Not b

d she had made it clear to him, she loved him to the moon and

lizabeth wholly as he desired, or so he believed, as he recalled her warm

urse, he left his home running with hi

his heat rush. He was dying to have another taste of her kiss. Her apartment felt timeless

itualistic as Elizabeth answered the door bar

tense," she

plied, stepping inside.

d to another with almost orchestrated ease as clothes dropped like fal

deepened and the m

gile frame wrapped beneath hers, gasp

pot simultaneously. The feeling was so intense for Adam as he felt his strength d

th

ky ro

through the windows a

turn his head before e

k the very hea

devoured the city. Flame surged and bui

chaos, Adam'

crea

t from

cha

swallowed

was gone, so

and chest. Her eyes glowed faintly gold. Her robe had bur

rd the centre of the impact. Behind her she left what she h

ld only pull up a vague smile as she sensed the Otherworld aura condensing in the room. "Adam has just been Ba

ade figures would cross over to get Adam into the Otherworld and have h

Lord " Elizabeth whispered as

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ORLD. PRES

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ns were threatening to pop loose as his skin held onto what tin

s eyes flared and the mark on h

s beside him. "It's done," sh

over his chest and

elr

he leaned close, letting her lips graze his ear. "I l

, his hand shot up, gripping Elizabeth

weren't A

t came from his mouth

ha

ed me

. I didn't me

dam smiled. "Your g

st as a voice called from

home, h

t feathers. He was handsome, tall and ageless wi

ally. That's the advantag

d barely think. He was j

e a lover. "But Vaelr is in you. And he is growing. The se

d. The pain in his

ortal. Your father... uhm ... one of my lieutenants,

out and touched Ada

en the time come

that he

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This was a failure, yet Lucifer didn't mind but bid time. She kn

ed to die, his body was only meant to be a cocoon for Vaelr, but it seemed Adam

or Return to the Order but

nto this. You have

onto her face as an id

Truewor

over, into the Trueworld with Ad

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ground of a floor he would always remember. Sirens wailed in the distance as Elizabeth

lost everything

one eye human, the o

in fear and fled back to the Otherworld. Something had changed inside him

e his soul as Vaelr offered Adam ye