I feel horrible when I come home to check on Lisa, and at the very entrance I am attacked by her. She throws everything she has at hand at me. Fortunately, I'm an Angel and have powers to protect myself from objects flying in my direction.
- Get out! I would rather not see you with his wings! - she screams hysterically. If I were human, she would probably kill me, even if it would knock her down to hell.
She suffers because of Andy and no longer sees me as a friend. She treats me worse than an enemy.
- Can you please calm down and talk to me?
- My blood boils inside me when I see you. Get out! - Her words hurt me. I understand that she resents me for Andy's death, but she's starting to overreact. It's not that I killed him. I wanted to protect him, but he sacrificed himself for me.
I open my eyes wider in shock as Thomas walks over to his sister, and shakes her to bring her to order. The redhead looks at him with broken eyes.
- Wrap yourself up, damn it! It wasn't Jennie who killed him! She wanted to protect him, but it was already Andy's decision that he gave his life for her. You have no right to treat her this way!
Lisa shifts her pained gaze to me, and I feel like crying. Why did it all go this way? I miss the past. I would give anything to go back a few months and enjoy a carefree life with friends.
- I beg ... talk to me," I turn quietly to Lisa.
- I can't," she replies more calmly. - I'm unable to when I see his wings on your back. I'm not ready for it. I can't stay in your company.
She sweeps past me and leaves the house, and I get the feeling that pain is tearing at my heart.
- Let's give her more time. Perhaps she will come to you herself when she is ready," Thomas says.
I nod my head, hoping that this is the case.
I sit down on the couch and hide my face in my hands, sighing loudly. I really would rather die that day, just to protect Andy's wings and not endure what I endure every day at the moment.
- Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You won't fix anything that way. My sister will eventually get over it, and she will come to you with a curled tail herself. Enjoy being an angel, enjoy the beauty of this world.
I would not have guessed that it would be the demon who would try to find the meaning of life in me.
- How can I be joyful when I have lost my friends?
Thomas sits down next to me, resting his elbows on his knees.
- And explain to me, how does it help you to feel sorry for yourself? You have done nothing wrong.
- I did not protect him.
The demon looks at me obliquely.
- But he protected you. How many times do I have to tell you this? I feel like I'm talking to a child. Although no... children are smarter than you. - He rubs the back of his nose. - Should I shake you like Lisa to make you come to your senses?
- You don't have to. Your words are enough.
The boy curls his lips in a smile.
- So, at this point, do you stop feeling sorry for yourself?
- Yes, although it pains me that this house is deserted. Besides us, there is no one here," I say grimly.
His facial expression indicates that he is planning something, and indeed he is when he jumps on top of me, squashing my body into the couch cushions. He lies on top of me, his seductive gaze scowling at my face.
- So let's take advantage of that...
- Thomas! - I feel a pleasant tickling sensation when he muscles my neck with his lips. - Aren't you exaggerating?
He looks into my eyes and strokes my cheek with his fingers.
- You are mine. After all, when we first met, I made you aware that you would belong to me until you bore me. - With his intense gaze, he lets me know that he is not joking. - I know that Cupid's spell is still working, and your heart beats faster at the sight of me. I can feel you pounding hard with excitement.
He is right. I want to succumb to him, I would like to feel his kisses on my skin and lips....
- Thomas...
- This is the best way to forget all worries. - He strokes my face with his hand, to which I close my eyelids.
- Can I...
- You can do anything, Jennie.
He greedily attaches his lips to my lips. He goes lower, mussing my neck and clavicles. I'm so aroused that I don't want to stop it for any reason. I let him take control of my body, forgetting that I am an Angel and he is a Demon.
Holding me at the waist, he lifts me up, and I wrap my legs around his hips. He moves us to the bedroom and arranges me on the bed.
On that day, I am ready to give myself fully to him.
*
Covered with sheets, I lie next to him, watching his handsome face. I don't regret anything. Our closeness to each other has allowed me to feel joy, to forget all my sorrows and make me think of nothing else but him now.
I needed this. I required the closeness of a man to make me feel good.
- Now it will only get better...
- What do you have in mind?
Thomas pulls my hair away from my face.
- You will no longer be tormented with guilt.
- You have already made me feel better," I reply.
The demon looks happy.
- Don't you regret not doing it sooner?
- To be honest, I regret many things. - I force a smile. - And I probably waited for the right moment....
- That's exactly right. We've both been waiting for this moment. - The strange glint in Thomas' eye seems disturbing to me for a moment, but I eventually ignore it.
The door to the bedroom is opened, and Victor appears on the threshold. Garm runs inside and jumps on my feet, merrily wagging his tail.
The brunet crosses his arms over his chest, and snorts under his breath.
I raise myself to a sitting position, covering myself more thoroughly with the quilt. I am outraged by Victor's behavior.
- You probably wanted to see Jennie naked, but we deserve more privacy," Thomas says, piercing him with her eyes. - Aren't you keeping an eye on my sister? It seems to me that she won't come home soon as long as we are here.
Victor looks at him with pained eyes.
- Not only towards me and Lisa you turned out to be an asshole, but to Jennie you did something much worse. - I furrow my eyebrows, looking at Thomas. - Did you at least warn her before you went to bed with her?
- What have you come up with again to vent your anger? - The demon snorts under his breath.
- You wanted to get close to Jennie for a reason. When you found out that she would become a demon, you drugged her with Cupid's spell. You took advantage of the whole wing thing and entangled her. Eventually, you managed to drag her to bed and now what, after all this time you're going to oil her? - Victor looks furious. - Your sister gave her love to Andy for a reason. She accidentally told me....
With wide-open eyes, I watch Thomas, not knowing what's going on.
- What is he talking about?
The demon rubs his forehead, piercing Victor with a sharp eye.
- What am I talking about? About the fact that you have been taken advantage of," Vic answers for him.
- Thomas...
- Sorry, that's how I wanted to help you.
- Did you want to help her? - Victor interjects. - Your connection has now made you both half Angel — half Demon. Did you ask her opinion, or were you thinking only of your benefit?
- Shut up! - yells Thomas at him, pointing a finger at him. - Stop messing between us!
- I just make my friend aware of what awaits her. Now you explain yourself," he says in a cool tone, after which he whistles at Garm, and leaves the bedrooms with the dog.
I feel betrayed. With pained eyes, I look at Thomas' face, which stares at a single point in front of me.
- Explain everything to me before I feel like a total bottom.
- I swear I wasn't just thinking about my benefits. I wanted to help you as well. You keep saying that you cannot live happily with Andy's white wings, so....
- So you fooled me? - I interject in his mind. - Why didn't you talk to me about it? Why didn't you ask if I actually wanted it, but made the decision for me!
Thomas combed his hand through his hair, looking nervous.
- Because all this time you were feeling sorry for yourself! I knew that if you knew the truth, you would never give yourself to me, and we would both suffer, and that's how I made us both become "Faerie."
- So you used me to become half Angel — half Demon, just to get rid of the black wings?
Wrapped in the bedclothes, I get off the bed, collecting my clothes from the floor. I am embarrassed and angry, angry at myself for succumbing to this devious bastard.
He will never change.
- I really thought about you...
I stand behind a large mirror and there hastily put clothes on myself, wanting to leave the house as soon as possible.
- Are demons capable of thinking of anyone apart from themselves? - I head for the door, but I am not provided the opportunity to leave the room, because Thomas embraces me from behind, resting his chin on my shoulder.
- I really care about you, Jennie. Very much.
I close my eyelids, from under which tears flow.
- I really dream of going back to the past and never meeting you. I wish I could still be a human being, an ordinary girl who would graduate from college, find a good job and a husband.
Thomas releases me from his grasp, and I leave the bedrooms, wanting to get as far away from this house as possible.
I need to think everything through. I am forced to cool down, put the recent events together in my head, and think about what to do next.
I am disappointed that I was cheated by Thomas, even though I trusted him so much. After all, he was the one who helped me the most in the recent past. I thought I had gotten to know the other side of him, and it turns out it was just a game.
I'm an idiot.