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strained; he lay perfectly still, wrapped up in his sexual aura. I ran my fingers through his sweat-soaked hair and kissed his shoulder. He rolled over on his side, facing me, and met my gaze.
    “I love you, Sid.”
    At the same time he said those words the light behind his eyes returned in bright, living color.
    The zombie was gone.
    I was so happy to see the old Ray return that I no longer cared about all the new things he had just shown me. I took his face in my hands and kissed his perfect mouth. For a moment we lay together in blissful harmony. The sweat from our bodies conjoined as the tingling sensation in my stomach began to subside.
    Unfortunately, we slowly began to sink back into reality.
    “You know I can’t go back with you on Friday,” I said slowly, too afraid to meet his eyes. This had been on my mind ever since my discussion with Detective Albright. He had told me that Nouri’s death was clearly a threat from someone who meant business. Whoever it was wanted to stop me from going to L.A. with Ray and they had temporarily succeeded by killing Nouri.
    My mind drifted briefly to my last dream, which included the not-so-cryptic warning from my dead mother. She had clearly instructed me to run away from this town. Balancing the two, I decided that I should heed to the very real warning that had left the stitches across my forehead.
    I knew it the instant I read that note, but I was still scared to tell Ray. He wasn't always the most understanding when something stood in his way of getting what he wanted.
    He somberly responded, “I know.”
    I was shocked.
    Was Ray finally coming around and working on his selfish outbursts?
    Or maybe he never wanted me to go back with him to L.A. in the first place.
    I closed my eyes while I pondered all possible solutions and before I knew it I was out for the count.
     

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter 7
     
     
    Thank You For The Venom
     
    Samael knew what was being offered to him was wrong on so many levels. He also knew that once he took this route, there was no going back. His soul would be taken, indebted to the Snake.
    Would Eve still be able to love him if his heart was now black as coal?
    And what of his father?
    As much as he hated his father for what he had done, he still yearned for his approval and had hoped to receive it one day. He dreamed of living his remaining days together with Eve in his home. He was still foolish enough to believe his father would overturn his decision made two weeks prior, and that they could all live together in peace as one family. After all, Samael was the first-born son. His father had made so many plans for him. He did not want to be the disappointment that he knew defined him.
    But however much he wanted to please his father, he could not suppress his own desires. Eve had an uncontrollable hold over him. He could never resist the temptation to be with her, nor did he want to. She had become his obsession and he would not stop until he devised a plan for them to be together.
    He knew Eve would forget him if she crossed the gates of the garden. Here in Eden, you remain in your own body and you can stop your body from aging any time you chose.
    Outside the gates, however, you no longer have control over the aging process. You continue to grow old until the day you die. Once deceased, your soul travels through space until it is reborn into another being of your same bloodline. So long as your bloodline carries on, your soul will always have a body to possess. You become an incarnation of all of your past ancestors, but you leave all your past memories behind. With each rebirth, your memories are erased from your past life.
    Samael knew that Eve would grow old and die if his father’s plan was carried out, so it left Samael with no choice but to fulfill the task Samjaza assigned.
     
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    “If Eve truly wanted to be with you, she would have found a way, Samael,” the pretty girl told her brother as she randomly ripped