Immortal Fire by Desconhecido(a)

He was without a doubt powerful. Then she grew angry. “So you did
that on purpose, to force me to be a demon.”
     
    “I didn’t force you. You are a
demon.”
     
    “I’m not!” He smirked, and she
relented. “Fine, half demon, but nothing more. Up until I met you, everything
was fine. I followed after my human side. I don’t want this.”
     
    ”You have no choice.” He began to
pace back and forth to the window and to the bedroom door. He seemed to search
the corners of the room with narrowed eyes, and he sniffed the air. At his
sides, he flexed his fingers. Tension appeared to tighten his jaw.
     
    She rose, wrapping the sheet
around her and frowning at him. “You told me there’s always a choice. Is it
dependant on what you want? Exactly what is it you want from me, Donovan? I’m
tired of the avoidance.”
     
    His smile was tight. “You are a
very powerful woman, Kai. You—” He spun away from her and faced the middle of
the room. Kai followed his line of sight. She saw the man as he approached from
the underworld, and stared when he stepped through to the room in the physical realm.
“I told you to wait!” Donovan roared.
     
    Black eyes full of fire and
hatred turned on them. Donovan stepped in front of Kai, but she moved out from
behind him. “Who are you? Donovan’s partner in this mess? What do you want? I
assume it’s not to kill me. Surely not to gain power over my father?”
     
    “That’s where you’re wrong.” His
voice, deep and threatening, made her mouth go dry. She took a step back, but
he followed and stretched a hand out to grab her. Fear closed her throat when
his long fingers curled around her wrist. “I do desire power over your father
and every demon lord for that matter. They rule a vast kingdom, the
underworld.”
     
    “Let her go, Gethin ,”
Donovan warned.
     
    Gethin sneered. “If you had done your job, Donovan, I wouldn’t have to interfere. One
task! Get her to trust you so we can manipulate her! You couldn’t do that
right.”
     
    Kai gaped. “What?” She yanked on
her arm which Gethin still held. His black nails bit
into her skin. She shrieked, and Gethin’s sleeve
caught on fire. He jerked away. Kai spun on the balls on her feet and ran
toward the door. Before she could get it open, a hand came around her waist,
and she was slammed against a hard chest.
     
    She tried to scream, but the
man’s hand covered her mouth. A deep voice muttered a spell in her ear, and the
room went black as if someone had snuffed out all light. She fought the tight
hold, but couldn’t break free. Although her skin must be boiling hot, the grip
on her didn’t lessen nor did her captor cry out in pain.
     
    No shift in the air and no
movement indicated that they had traveled, but a familiar scent caught Kai’s
nose, and she knew where they had somehow been transported. Mrs. Dew’s shop.
The rough hands released her when the room lit. Kai stumbled to the floor and
shoved Donovan’s hand away when he would have helped her.
     
    “Get the hell away from me,” she
snapped. A pressure at the back of her neck made her bow her head in pain.
“Ah!”
     
    Mrs. Dew appeared from nowhere.
“What’s this? Donovan!” she scoffed. “A demon in my shop? You know what they
are, how they betray you.”
     
    Kai glanced down at herself. Her
skin was red, her nails grown out, and running her tongue across her teeth, she
discovered they were pointed. Damn it! When the pain in her head stopped, she would skin Donovan alive. But it only
increased.
     
    “Mother,” Donovan began.
     
    Kai shrieked. “Mother? She told
me she had never heard of you.”
     
    “Why isn’t it dead yet, forced
into the abyss?” Mrs. Dew demanded.
     
    Terrified of the thought, Kai slunk
away. The pain was worse. She screamed and would have crawled under a table as
if that would protect her from the unseen attack, but Donovan bent down on one
knee and tugged her back. “Baby, you must calm down or her