Diana’s POV
“Don’t give it to him,” Angelo gasped out through ragged breaths. Watching him suffer in the hands of Benjamin made my blood boil. I could feel my power awakening, feeding on it like wild piranhas. My veins burned throughout my body, pulsing with black magic.
When I looked back up Benjamin had moved in a blink of an eye so that he was now holding the knife against Angelo’s neck. I could no longer get close to him and try to heal him. Angelo’s black mark was spreading over his face and down his neck. Beads of sweat were forming on his forehead as his body burned from the inside out. He was too weak to try to fight Benjamin off now.
“Diana,” Benjamin said giving me a smile although it did not reach his eyes. Something was off... the spark that used to be in those blue eyes of his was missing. His baby blue eyes looked soulless. “Give me the gem and Angelo could survive.”
“This couldn’t be the way you planned out everything. You know if Angelo dies the balance in my power is ruined.” I said watched Benjamin’s hold on Angelo tighten as that crystal clear knife dug in a little into his skin causing him to bleed. “I will most likely kill everyone around me, including you.
“If I can’t have you, no one can,” Benjamin said shaking his head slightly causing his blonde hair to fall over his crazy blue eyes.
Black clouds started rolling in, thundering loudly above as an ominous sign. Angelo was thinking of a way to get out his grasp but his body was not like before. He was losing his strength in seconds. My heart went through its own kind of heartburn seeing him like that.
“You’re crazy,” I said feeling the gem starting to heat up in my hand again. It was reacting to the black magic inside of me. “You made me feel a connection like I did with Angelo by using black magic.”
“I needed to get close to you somehow,” Benjamin said eyeing the gem as it began to glow. “Make you see that I could give you the same feelings Angelo could.”
“You fucking bastard!” Angelo spat out in anger as he realized Benjamin had used magic on me all this time. That kiss we had felt real, I would have never guessed he was using a love spell on me since the beginning. I tried to spot the truth in Benjamin’s eyes but they were not showing me much, although he did say they were eyes to the soul. What kind of sick fuck makes me feel things that aren’t real for his own pleasure?
I knew there was a reason he wanted the gem. There always a reason behind every move of his. I just needed to think ahead and beat him to the punch line so he wouldn’t use me anymore. I felt ashamed that I believed him previously.
I wasn’t his fucking toy. Suddenly a ghost whisper reached my ears only.
“Let me in,” The entity said as I turned back to look at Benjamin still holding a dying Angelo if I didn’t do something quick. He was driving me to do things I was going to regret later. But it had to be done if I wanted Angelo to get out of this alive. I could not let myself fall down the black magic hole and get consumed like Jason. “Unleash your wrath upon him.”
Time stood still as I watched the Egyptian queen crystallize in front of me, her image was fading since she didn’t have a source of power. Her golden eyes looked into mine with such intensity I could feel the weight of them upon my face. “We can make them all pay for toying with our feelings.”
Deep down in my conscious mind, I knew she had spotted my weakness and was using it against me. Yet, my mind was clouded from any rational thoughts as she stepped closer towards me with a sway to her hips bringing my attention back to her.
“Say it,” she whispered with a ragged voice filled with dark sound waves, ringing alarm bells in my head. “Say that you’ll let me be a part of the darkness inside of you.”
I felt my lips quiver as fear tried to make its way out of my inner box. Holding it back I did what every cell in my body was disagreeing with me to do.
“You can go in,” I whispered fiantly.
I let her go inside of me by removing the walls Benjamin had taught me to put up. Her faded image became black smoke before going into my mouth like I inhale it but rather it forced itself inside me causing me to choke on air.
As soon as she entered I felt Angelo’s life source slip from my grasp.
“No!” Benjamin yelled out but it was too late, she already made herself at home. Along with her came a vast amount of power I have never thought possible. One of the many powers I noticed she had was being able to control men. She had acquired this by doing a very rare and complicated blood sacrifice on men who had deserve it by committing crimes.
Shocked at the discovery I looked at Benjamin to see a light back in his baby blue eyes when she let her control of him go. A sinner laughter sounded in my head as I just realized I have been played by her instead of Benjamin all this time. Making him beat up Angelo and say all those things to get that reaction from me so I could let her in like the idiot I was.
“What have you done?” Benjamin asked throwing the knife to the ground and slowly laying Angelo on his side lifeless, unmoving.
My limbs were starting to feel cold as a sign that death was upon Angelo. I listened carefully and noticed his heart beat was no longer there. I had lost the light to my darkness and now there was nothing holding me back.