Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter Seventy Two

Jade placed the pot filled with burning coal beside the candle. She knelt in the middle of the circle. “Expergiscere, dominus inferorum,” she chanted over and again. Those were Latin words.

Suddenly, the white, powdery substance ignited in a burst of flame, surrounding her with green fire.

“It’s working,” she gasped. She rose to her feet, chanting the Latin words louder; a gust of wind blew through the room, and I watched curiously, but then everything stopped.

The lights went off and the wind ceased. There was complete silence.

“I… I did everything right; why wouldn’t it work!” She screamed, kicking over the pot of coal.

I was used to this outburst; she was always like this anytime it didn’t work, but I had to admit, this seemed to have gone to a different level unlike her other trials.

“What am I doing wrong? Why wouldn’t this stupid spell work?”

She pushed over the bottle of potions, and it shattered spilling on the floor. She ran her hands through her hair; it seemed like she wanted to pull it out.

Then she turned to me.

“Maybe you aren’t doing it right. You are holding back why?”

I wasn’t, but I couldn’t tell her that; her spell hindered me from speaking.

me hard. I could understand that she needed to let out her frustration, and she

to the ground; she broke down in

her, slowly patting her hair, and for a moment she enjoyed that; she needed comfort, and she didn’t mind who

she shrugged my hands off

spell, and I could

we will just try it again, maybe tomorrow…

called, but she wasn’t

“What!”

“Behind you.

Slowly she turned.

was alive. His completely black eyes

head bowed in reverence to Vox the Demon

his power, so strong I didn’t dare look him in

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white material that had been used to cover his

asked; I brought you back to

him, Ralph.” Vox

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but she didn’t get it; she didn‘ understand what was happening even as Vox materialized before her and tore into her neck, drinking of her blood. She didn’t understand that Vox meant she would

powerful sorceresses alive, but to Vox she was…