THE DEVIL'S CLAIM
A ragged shout explodes.
Pandemonium. Men lunge. Ethan cries out my name, like a god damned prayer. Marco catches my wrist, and this time there’s no theater, no teasing. His grip is iron, and pain blooms. They wrench the knife from me. My hands are pinned. Breathless, angry, useless.
Dante’s voice is cold and slow. “You really couldn’t help yourself, could you?”
He kneels. So close that his breath ghosts my mouth. “You will be disciplined,” he says, and for the first time I see that this isn’t theater. It isn’t cruelty for show. It’s method. It’s a design to dismantle me into raw, useful pieces.
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