Devil's Deal: A Dark Fantasy Romance

Devil's Deal: A Dark Fantasy Romance

Author: Layla Fae Listening Length: 19h 6m

The devil craves my soul. It calls to him like the scent of fresh blood. I am not afraid. The night of summer solstice, I do something stupid. Drawn to the fire of magic, I approach the gods in their sacred circle. I am just a mortal, one of many. I shouldn’t merit their attention. But behind the royal figures of the ...

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It takes me one full day to get my cottage sufficiently clean after Swietko’s amputation and his and Alina’s stay. This is my space, my only refuge, and it feels violated, so I work until nothing remains of my guests.

I scrub the blood off my floor and table, replace the straw in my mattress, smoke the interior with sage and tansy. It takes longer than it should because I’m interrupted every half hour. People are curious, so they visit under the pretext of getting herbal remedies for common ailments.

I keep my annoyance to myself and serve them with as much grace as I can muster, which is not much. The only thing keeping my foul mood in check is my goal of discrediting Czeslawa and taking her place. I will fail if I’m rude to my clients.

But that doesn’t mean I can’t make this huge interest in my whispering beneficial to myself.