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I have decided to do,โ€ she continued, speaking methodically. โ€œI am going to keep your sexy, immortal body safely tucked away underground somewhere while your soul travels to the Otherworld and makes sure Zoey does not return here.โ€
โ€œNyx will never allow it!โ€ The words burst from him before he could stop them.
โ€œNyx always allows free will. As her former High Priestess, I know without any doubt that she will allow you to choose to travel in spirit to the Otherworld,โ€ Neferet said slyly. โ€œRemember, Kalona, my true love, if you ensure Zoeyโ€™s death, you will be removing the last impediment to us reigning side by side. You and I will be powerful beyond imagining in this world of modern marvels. Think of itโ€” we will subjugate humans and bring back the reign of vampyres with all the beauty and passion and limitless power that means. The earth will be ours. We will, indeed, give new life to the glorious past!โ€
Kalona knew she was playing on his weaknesses. Silently, he cursed himself for allowing her to have learned too much about his deepest desires. Heโ€™d trusted her, so Neferet knew that because he wasnโ€™t Erebus he could never truly rule beside Nyx in the Otherworld, and he was driven to re- create as much of what heโ€™d lost here in this modern world.
โ€œYou see, my love, when you consider it logically, it is only right that you follow Zoey and sever the link between her soul and her body. Doing so simply serves your ultimate desires.โ€ Neferet spoke nonchalantly, as if the two of them were discussing the choice of material for her latest gown.
โ€œHow am I even to find Zoeyโ€™s soul?โ€ He tried to match her matter of fact tone. โ€œThe Otherworld is a realm so vast, only the gods and goddesses can traverse it.โ€
Neferetโ€™s bland expression tightened, making her cruel beauty terrible to behold. โ€œDo not pretend you donโ€™t have a connection to her soul!โ€ The Tsi Sgili immortal drew a deep breath. In a more reasonable tone, she continued, โ€œAdmit it, my love; you could find Zoey even if no one else could. What is your choice, Kalona? To rule on earth at my side, or to remain a slave to the past?โ€
โ€œI choose to rule. I will always choose to rule,โ€ he said without hesitation.
As soon as he spoke, Neferetโ€™s eyes changed. The green within them became totally engulfed in scarlet. She turned the glowing orbs on himโ€” holding, entrapping, entrancing. โ€œThen hear me, Kalona, Fallen Warrior of Nyx, by my oath I shall keep your body safe. When Zoey Redbird, fledging High Priestess of Nyx, is no more, I swear to you I will remove these dark chains and allow your spirit to return. Then I will take you to the rooftop of our castle on Capri and let the sky breathe life and strength into you so that you will rule this realm as my consort, my protector, my Erebus.โ€ As Kalona watched, helpless to stop her, Neferet drew one long, pointed fingernail across the palm of her right hand. Cupping the blood that pooled there, she held her hand up, offering. โ€œBy blood I claim this power; by blood I bind this oath.โ€ All around her, Darkness stirred and descended on her palm, writhing, shivering, drinking. Kalona could feel the draw of that Darkness. It spoke to his soul with seductive, powerful whispers.
โ€œYes!โ€ The word was a moan torn deep from his throat as Kalona yielded himself to the greedy Darkness.
When Neferet continued, her voice was magnified, swollen with power. โ€œIt is your own choice that I have sealed this oath by blood with Darkness, but should you fail me and break itโ€”โ€
โ€œI will not fail.โ€
Her smile was unworldly in its beauty; her eyes roiled with blood. โ€œIf you, Kalona, Fallen Warrior of Nyx, break this oath and fail in my sworn quest to destroy Zoey Redbird, fledgling High Priestess of Nyx, I shall hold dominion over your spirit for as long as you are an immortal.โ€
The answering words came unbidden by him, evoked by the seductive Darkness, which for centuries heโ€™d chosen over Light. โ€œIf I fail, you shall hold dominion over my spirit for as long as I am an immortal.โ€
โ€œThus I have sworn.โ€ Again Neferet slashed her palm, creating a bloody X in her flesh. The copper scent wafted to Kalona like smoke rising from fire as she again raised her hand to Darkness. โ€œThus it shall be!โ€ Neferetโ€™s face twisted in pain as Darkness drank from her again, but she didnโ€™t flinchโ€” didnโ€™t move until the air around her pulsed, bloated with her blood and her oath.
Only then did she lower her hand. Her tongue snaked out, licking the scarlet line and ending the bleeding. Neferet walked to him, bent, and gently placed her hands on either side of his face, much as he had held the human boy before delivering his deathblow. He could feel Darkness thrumming around and within her, a raging bull waiting eagerly for his mistressโ€™s command.
Her blood-reddened lips paused just short of touching his. โ€œWith the power that rushes through my blood, and by the strength of the lives I have taken, I command you, my delicious threads of Darkness, to pull this Oath Bound immortalโ€™s soul from his body and speed him to the Otherworld. Go and do as I order, and I swear I will sacrifice to you the life of an innocent you have been unable to taint. So thee for me, I mote it be!โ€
Neferet drew in a deep breath, and Kalona saw the dark threads sheโ€™d summoned slither between her full, red lips. She inhaled Darkness until she was swollen with it, and then she covered his mouth with hers and, with that blackened, blood- tainted kiss, blew Darkness within him with such force that it ripped his already wounded soul from his body. As his soul shrieked in soundless agony, Kalona was forced up, up, and into the realm from which his Goddess had banished him, leaving his body lifeless, chained, Oath Bound by evil, and at the mercy of Neferet

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