Mate? Or Die!
Magic coursed through me, deftly guiding my every movement and amplifying any strength I tried to muster.
“Stand down!” I yelled. Odessa was beyond finished. With a cold, mocking laugh, she launched it to me.
"You think you've won?" she sneered. "That sword was made of dupe silver. Your poor mother has days, if, that before it kills her. While the cure-" up to this moment, she widened her smile "-is right here with me. You want to save Mama? Come with me."
Her words hit me hard in the stomach. I averted my eyes to my mother, still down, shallow breaths. I could lose her. Surely, I couldn't allow a loss to Odessa but I could not allow myself to enter her Demon Desires.