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you
should tell them that. Dorian’s already made the first move, so
it’s only a matter of time before his soul becomes mine. Would
you like to see?” He waved his hand, and the heavy draperies on
the window parted, showing not a landscape outside, but the interior
of a dark and dirty apartment. “Oh, yes, I can see into the
Earthly realm, just like you can elsewhere in the Otherworld.”
    Crouched over a
trashcan, feeding balls of newspaper into a fire that blazed in the
bin, was a man wearing black pants and a sweater. His long, brown
hair was pulled into a low ponytail, and his chiseled face reflected
the shadows and light of the flames. Thick, straight brows, one with
a scar through it, pulled low over his dark eyes. Noah—Mom’s
twin, my uncle, and a Summoned son who was part of the Daemoni. With
him, sitting on a stained, bare mattress on the floor with litter
scattered around his feet, was a younger looking man, a teenager,
with dark blond hair and hazel eyes full of determination. My son.
    I gasped and sprang to
my feet. “Oh my God! He’s alive ? On Earth?”
    Satan hissed at my
choice of words.
    “For now,”
he answered, sounding annoyed. But … he answered. When
Mom and Rina never would.
    I ran to the window and
pressed my hands and forehead against it as I stared at my son, new
emotions welling within me. He still had on the same jeans and blue
sweater he’d worn the last time I saw him. They appeared to
have shrunk three sizes, though, showing how much he’d grown
since the day I’d said “see you later” at the gates
to the campus and he’d told me, “not if I see you first.”
I’d thought it a joke then. How had I not known?
    “Dorian,” I
called out to him, but, being on the other side of the veil, he
couldn’t hear or see me.
    When he spoke to Noah,
though, his words came clearly across the veil. “Kali said I
was the key to breaking the curse on you and the others.”
    My jaw slackened, and
my fingers curled against the glass. “What?”
    Satan snickered behind
me.
    Noah looked up from the
fire that caused light and shadows to dance on his face. “I’ve
heard that, too, and she would know.”
    “So she was
telling the truth that if I offer myself to the Daemoni, my parents
and baby sister will be okay?”
    Those new feelings—a
flicker of hope—turned upside down, and my heart sank. Was this
the lie he’d been told? Was this why he’d left us? “No,
Dorian. Don’t you do it!”
    “My understanding
is that you must be offering yourself as a sacrifice.” Noah
dropped down to sit on the floor. He crossed his long legs at the
ankles and rested his forearms on his bent knees. “The rest of
us went willingly to the Daemoni. They offered us power, wealth,
everything we could possibly want, everything the Amadis could not.
Any power went to our sisters. We were wanted by the Daemoni.
Not so much by the Amadis. The decision was simple. But that cannot
be the decision for you, if you want to break the curse.”
    Dorian gnawed on his
bottom lip. “My mother and father love me. I love them. I don’t want to do this, but I think I have to.”
    “No, you don’t,
Dorian!” I banged on the window, but in vain.
    “A sacrifice
might break the curse, but there’s no guarantee it will save
your family or anyone else.”
    “If I do break it
and you’re freed, though, you will go fight for them?”
    Noah nodded. “I
will. But I might be the only one.”
    Dorian’s eyes
darkened. “Even after what Kali and my grandfather did to the
others?”
    Noah didn’t reply
at first, his own eyes storming, probably at the memory of what he’d
been through when Lucas and the sorcerers controlled him. “I do
not know. Some, such as Edmund, have already given their souls over,
so it is too late for them.”
    “But the rest?”
    “There’s a
possibility they will convert and fight for your mother.”
    Dorian leaned his elbow
on his knee and dropped his chin into his hand as he gazed at