CLAIMED BY THE DEVIL DON.
The sudden, booming sound of the pistol butt striking the heavy library door cut through the agonizing silence like a physical shockwave. Inside the room, I slid further down the stone pillar, gripping the cold, rough surface with white-knuckled desperation. The contraction that seized me was a terrible, twisting, constant fire, but for a moment, the external noise was louder than the internal agony.
Damon Salvatore, seated calmly on the antique chair in the center of the vast, empty room, simply smiled. It wasn't a genuine expression; it was the satisfied, predatory look of a gambler whose opponent had just bet everything on a losing hand.
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