Starving, down to her last candle, she read through the book she’d found on the desk and knew the gnawing in her gut was more than hunger.
This was a bad place.
A bad place where she had been tempted and spoken terrible words.
When she opened the filigreed box on the desk, when she found the notes, she didn’t weep. After all, didn’t the church teach that there was no such thing as victims of the devil? She had come to him of her own accord.
She had killed Chadwick Parker. She had served as the demon’s slut.
She had renounced her God under the ecstasies only the prince of darkness might offer.
And every word on those torn notes was true.
She was in Hell.
Damned, Pearl snuffed out the last candle before it might burn away. Pitch black filled her vision. Shuffling through the furniture, she found the stinking bed, and pulled the covers crusted in all things unholy over her body. There she lay, forgotten, abandoned, and without hope.
Just as she deserved.
Starvation drained her flesh over weeks. Shriveled, desiccated, she lay like an age worn corpse unable to blink. Yet, where the body failed the mind persevered.
She couldn’t scream into that endless night. Eventually, even her chest no longer rose to draw breath. But awareness and desolation never faded.
Hell was a dedicated custodian. It refused to release her stolen soul.
Years, decades, passed trapped on that bed staring up into unyielding dark.
Alone.
/> Forgotten.
Forsaken.
Another corpse in the catacombs.
The End
About Addison Cain
USA Today Bestselling author, Addison Cain, is best known for her dark romances, the Omegaverse Alpha’s Claim and Alpha’s Control Series, and the twisted alien worlds of the Irdesi Empire. Her antiheroes are not always redeemable, her lead females fierce, and nothing is ever as it seems.
Deep and sometimes heart wrenching, her books are not for the faint of heart. But they are just right for those who enjoy unapologetic bad boys, aggressive alphas, and a hint of violence in a kiss.
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