Devil's Deal: A Dark Fantasy Romance

Devil's Deal: A Dark Fantasy Romance

Author: Layla Fae Listening Length: 19h 6m
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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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I sleep for a few hours until dawn, and then attend Magda’s burial in the morning. Both she and Jacek are buried in the graveyard outside the village, because Jarota decided their deaths weren’t violent enough to justify burning their remains.

If there is no gore, that means a death was peaceful in his opinion. I decide to have an eye on those fresh graves just in case, because with Woland plotting against me, I don’t trust the dead not to turn into upirs or something.

At least, dealing with upirs is easy. You just have to dig out the remains during the day, when they are inactive, cut off the upir’s head, and put it between their legs. That way, they get stuck forever and can’t come out to suck people’s blood.

The burial is sparsely attended, because everyone is out in the fields, getting as much work done as they can before noon. The sun is hot and bright, the weather perfect for reaping.