Fated To Bleed

"All games aside, I can't kill you because I have plans for you. However, that has nothing to do with the lust I feel for Lucian. I had decided to not cross that line due to the fact that I know his heart. He cares for you, but now that I see the woman he has been saving himself for," she made a big show of undressing Mari with her cold stare, "Your love will never match his. The fact that you will leave when things aren't as you wanted them to be is proof that you too weak. You would never be the woman that he imagined you to be. You are a teenage dream that should have died years ago. So, thank you for being willing to put up a fight."

Mariposa tasted blood in her mouth. She had bitten down, and into the soft, pink flesh of her jaw to keep her mouth shut.

Things had been so close to being perfect, until the gate opened and Devaki crossed the threshold into their world. Now that she was back, all of Lucian's perfect laid plans had gone to shit. Seeing that Mariposa wasn't going to love him... all of him and his unworldly powers, will he give into the sweet lure of his returned love? Then again, why the hell not, when Mariposa isn't going to put up a fight?

Lucian smirked. He traced her swollen lower lip.
"Don't ever try to stop me from loving you, Devaki," he whispered. At her dumbfounded look, he explained. "I'm counting my blessings for what I do have. Instead of worrying about what I don't."

If only it was that simple. Trapped as pawns in an ageless game, the board has been reset. Pushed to their limits, everyone has to seek out and accept the truths of the past, if they intend on living.
While Danjal has to face the impending doom that he will use his only love, Angie, when a ghost returns in hope of reclaiming her heart.