Chapter 43: Evil

She looked upon the face of evil.

"No, no, no!" She tried to wriggle out from under him, but her body wouldn't move. She lay paralyzed as the perfect husband, her Star Warrior, turned into a monster in front of her. Instead of reassuring her, he stared down at her with red eyes blazing, his incisors becoming longer and longer. As she watched, moisture glistened at the pointed ends. He had venom, like a snake?

Betrayal lay bitter in her stomach, and she moaned with a mixture of fear and heartbreak. Low, agonizing sounds tore out of her throat.

"You are a demon," she whispered. All his talk of traveling among the skies had been lies. Lies she'd believed like the gullible idiot she was. He'd used her curious nature against her. But for what purpose? To get her to have relations with him? "Why would you lie to me?"