273 THE DEAL WITH THE DEVIL

“Stay where you are.” The alpha raised his hand to stop his gamma from coming closer to him when he was about to walk toward him.

Colton, the gamma of this Shadow Moon pack, stood still in the middle of the room, with the baby that was crying at the top of her lungs in his arms. Her little face turned red from all the crying and she was inconsolable.

On the other hand, Liam needed a few more moments to straighten up his mind, as he was still in disbelief that his daughter was still alive. He saw and felt it himself that the baby was no longer breathing. Her body had turned cold when he held her.

However, now, she was crying...

Liam took a step forward. He looked doubtful and reluctant. Half of his heart already accepted that his son’s twin had died, but the other half wanted his daughter to be alive.

They both were his firstborns after all. He wanted the best for them.

Another step and then followed by another, until Liam was in front of his gamma. He just needed to look down to see his baby and that was what he did.

The first thing that Liam noticed when he saw the baby was her golden eyes. He didn’t know the color of the baby’s eyes before, because he didn’t have a chance to see them, but now, when he saw the baby, he knew immediately where this golden color came from.

It was the color of the devil’s eyes, Aaron. He remembered the color of his eyes because he had never seen anything like that before.

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Liam hesitated. He didn’t feel this was his daughter, but at the same time, he had this urge to calm the baby down, because she was crying so much that she started hyperventilating.

There was a deep frown between his brows when he decided to take the baby from Colton’s arms and carried her himself.

The baby weighed nothing, and Liam still found it difficult for him to accept the reality before his eyes.

“This is a miracle,” Colton stated when the baby was already in Liam’s arms. “The baby is a miracle. I have never seen anything like this.”

She is a miracle? Is she?

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“Why did you go to district six and meet with the witches?” Knox met July after she returned the sleeping Flo back to her parents.

“I just met with Ciara,” July corrected him. She didn’t meet with the whole coven but just one witch.

“I don’t like you having any interaction with them,” Knox voiced out his disagreement and then walked next to July, since she refused to stop and talk with him. “They are manipulative creatures. You should know better than mingling with them.”

“No, I don’t.” July stopped walking and then turned around to face Knox. Her expression was devoid of any emotions, but Knox knew this was a serious matter and she didn’t want to be told what she needed to do or couldn’t do in this issue.

Yet, Knox was firm with his decision, that was to not let July meet with the witch ever so often.

“What is the problem with you? This is my second time going there and meeting the witch, but she did nothing to me.” July was stubborn and it was vivid at this moment.

On the other hand, Knox narrowed his eyes. “She did nothing to you, but did she say something?” Manipulation was not only about what they did to you, but also what they said. It was about the things that you heard, not what you saw.

And Knox got the answer right away when he saw the change in July’s expression.

“She did say something to you, right?” Knox emphasized this matter and he grabbed July’s shoulder when she tried to walk away from this conversation. “Answer me July, what did she say to you?”

“She said nothing,” July said sternly. She looked Knox right in his eyes when she said that, but that was her first mistake, because once she finished her line, Knox knew exactly whether she was telling the truth or not.

“You are lying to me,” he stated. There was no doubt in that statement. He was very sure about what he said. He knew when people lied and especially someone that he loved. “You have never lied to me, July.”

Knox cupped her face when July tried to avoid him, since he called her out right away after what she said.

He waited for her to come clean with him, but July was stubborn and she said nothing. She didn’t want to let him know.

Knox’s gaze hardened. He didn’t need to remind July about how obnoxious those witches could be because she already knew about this, yet she chose to not listen and ignore that fact.

“I will chase them away if you don’t listen to me, July.” Knox didn’t want any of those witches manipulating July into doing something that she would regret.

Knox knew what July wanted and there was no way it could happen, unless with the help of those witches...

No. He wouldn’t let her have a deal with them. No matter how much July wanted it.

“You can’t do that to me, Knox,” July snapped at him. She looked at him with hurt in her eyes. She was not angry because she knew that she was in the wrong, yet her desire seemed to have clouded her judgment.

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“I can and I will do it.” He was doing it for her and he wouldn’t let anything bad happen to her because of her impulsiveness. “Stop meeting her.”

July didn’t say anything when she heard Knox’s ultimatum. She looked at him in disbelief, but she knew that was for the best, knowing what kind of situation that they lived in.

Yet, she felt her heart being crushed once again to have her hopes deflated.

“You don’t know what I feel...” she said in a whisper, she bit her bottom lip to stop herself from crying. She felt dejected and frustrated. “I am afraid.”

July was afraid of having any regrets in her life, she was afraid that she would end up like Anne. She didn’t want to grow old, while Knox didn’t age even a year from when they met for the first time.

July didn’t envy his youthfulness, but she didn’t want to live without him.

Knowing that she would grow older and would no longer be compatible with Knox, that thought was slowly killing her inside. It was like a disease that was slowly eating her alive.

She didn’t want to regret loving Knox, it was an insult to everything they had gone through, but she was not satisfied with their current situation.

She wanted a family of her own, there was nothing else that she desired the most and this desire of hers brought her to desperation.

On the other hand, Knox could see what July was trying to say and he understood her fears very well.

He could shield her from any harm that came her way, but one thing that he couldn’t do was to protect her from herself.

Knox furrowed his brows deeply when he saw the pain in her eyes. He didn’t want to make her feel this way, but there was no way to solve this problem without hurting her.

“I know what you feel, my love,” Knox said, he pulled her closer and then hugged her tightly. He was sorry for not being able to help her, but he knew for sure, sealing a deal with the witches was not a solution, that would be a disaster for her life.

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Liam looked at the baby in his arms that was sleeping soundly. He got back his dead daughter and now he was trying to think of anything that could make all of this make sense, yet the only explanation that he could think of was the devil named Aaron.

Now, he had gone back to the infirmary where Jasmine and his other child were resting. Both of them were sleeping soundly, while the sun slowly rose on the distant horizon.

“How did it feel to hold your baby again?”

Liam was startled when he heard this voice again. He snapped his head and found Aaron in the same place, where he appeared for the first time earlier. The devil looked at the alpha with a harmless smile tugging on the corners of his lips.

“So?” Aaron tilted his head, because Liam said nothing. “Happy now?”

Liam gritted his teeth. It was against his best judgment to accept the devil’s offer. He knew with all of his being that he couldn’t agree with this, but the baby in his arms held much more weight than he expected.

Liam looked down to see his daughter’s sleeping face and he knew he wouldn’t be able to deny the fact that this time it would be on him, if he lost his daughter again.

“What do you mean that you will take her as your bride?” Liam spoke through his gritted teeth. He needed to know this part.

On the other hand, the smile on Aaron’s lips grew bigger, knowing that he had won this battle. “I want her when she comes of age. She will stay by my side.”

Liam raised his head and looked at the devil.

“Don’t worry, I will not try anything funny before that happens, but I will assure you that she will become the most powerful shifter ever, whilst your pack, an unparalleled domain.”

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