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another arrow whizzed by then stillness enveloped the clearing before Azamel got a response, “I will help you, Azamel. I’ll help you die.”
    Mel shook his head as he remembered how shocked he was to learn he couldn’t rely on his friend, for it was Boralium who fired the arrows. The last vestige of hope died with him then. Furious at the betrayal, he let Destruction free from his interior cage.
    Once the demon received permission, he tore through Mel’s body, ripping sinew, muscles and bone to be liberated. Mel didn’t fight against Destruction, so the demon didn’t mutilate his host’s body when he emerged.
    With quickened strides, Destruction burst through the trees and was in front of Boralium before Boral was even aware of his approach. Destruction’s massive claw wrapped around the man’s throat and pulled him up off his feet to gaze eye to eye with the much smaller man.
    “Why?” Destruction growled. “We were friends. You have done so much for us. Why?”
    Boralium’s feet swung as he tried to kick the massive beast. His hands clawed at the arm which held him chokingly aloft. “Because you killed the woman I loved and cherished. The mother to my son.”
    “You lie! You’re not even married.”
    “I had a mistress in the other village. The village you raided two nights ago. You killed her and several others of her clan.”
    “Why did I not know about her?”
    “Why should it have mattered? You’re no longer a man. You’re a monster, an abomination who should be eradicated.”
    Before Azamel could attempt to halt any further damage from Destruction, the beast savagely thrust his free claw into Boralium’s chest, through his rib cage, as he ripped the spinal column from his friend out the front of his body.
    “I don’t get eradicated. I eliminate!” Destruction exclaimed.
    Despite his torn up body and loss of blood, as well as his general weakened state from the poisoned arrows, Mel struggled to catch what was left of his friend before he collapsed.
    When Azamel came to, Destruction had returned to his cage and he was healed enough to investigate Boralium’s claims only to discover the truth of them. Zenthus was the son who was now an orphan by Destruction’s hand.
    Azamel took the child and raised him, never letting Zenthus know he was the cause of his parents’ deaths.
     
     
     
     
    Chapter 4
     
    Clarissa would have to talk to Mel about Santanya and Zen later, but for now, there was a larger issue at stake: that of her daughter missing, Jakome dead and Zenthus injured. At least the latter was alive to describe what happened and how she was going to get Trinity back. She strode over to the bedside, unconcerned at the moment of Santanya holding Zen’s hand.
    Shara held back slightly, moving close to Logan to whisper to him. “Don’t tell them about the girl, Logan. There is no reason for either of you to cause any unnecessary agitation or distress over something which might not even be related. Your father has a multitude of enemies, any of which might have taken Trinity as leverage against him and not by mistake for your female.”
    It surprised Logan that Shara knew what he had planned on doing. However, he shouldn’t have been all that astonished Shara was aware of Jasmine as well as everything else which went on in and around the house and its inhabitants. He leaned over and whispered back to Mel’s assistant.
    “Isn’t it better if they know everything? What if it isn’t Trinity they wanted but took her falsely? What if it’s Jasmine they want and will use Trinity as leverage? Mom and Dad won’t know what they are referring to in a negotiation if they don’t know about Jasmine at all.”
    “And what exactly are you going to tell them, Logan? You don’t know all that much about her, do you? All these years you have seen her a couple of times a week in the garden and most of that has been anything but talking. Do you know her last name? Where she lives? Who she is related