Tempting Fate

72 Chapter 72: The Doubt

Emy couldn’t believe that she was in a different place when she got into the car. It was like they had opened a doorway from the other side. She looked back and saw that it was Devin’s room. She looked at Devin, who was sitting on his bed and leaning back against the headboard. Emy went straight up to Devin.

“Take off what you’re wearing,” Emy said.

Devin kept going, but Emy helped him because he was having a hard time taking off his shirt. Devin didn’t know what he was feeling at that time. He had that strange feeling again, which was new to him.

Emy was looking at Devin’s body. He and Reed had almost the same body, and Devin had scars like the ones he had seen before.

“It doesn’t look like it used to ...” Emy said as she looked at the wound Devin had. Emy got up and took the medicine kit out of the bathroom cabinet. Then she went back to where Devin was sleeping in the bed.

“Only a regular dagger is used so it can get better quickly. You no longer have to come with me here.”

Emy gave Devin a quick look. She then sat down next to him and opened the medicine kit.

“Why do you make me leave every time?” Emy spoke up. “You are the only one who always pushes me away. Reed, Eve, and Maria are not like you. They want me to stay.”

Devin was stunned and did not speak. He did nothing but watch Emy. “Do you have something against me?” Emy added.

.....

“I’m just avoiding ....”

“Avoiding me.”

Devin took a deep breath. “Why are you affected if I avoid you?”

“It’s just painful.”

“Does it hurt because I keep pushing you away? Why? We’re just an acquaintance, right? ”

“I don’t know. Maybe I’m just not used to it yet.”

Emy first used a wet tissue to wipe away the black liquid around the wound. She then put antiseptic on the wound as well. Devin didn’t speak and just stared at Emy. She noticed this when she looked at his face after noticing a sudden silence.

“What’s wrong with you?” Emy asked.

“Emy, did you hope for anything from Reed?”

“Why did you ask?”

“You don’t want to get pregnant.” Emy gave him a quick look and stopped what she was doing. “Am I right or not?”

“I have my reason.”

“I know that, which is why I’m asking if you have any hopes for Reed,” said Devin. “I can tell you like him, but you’re still afraid of him even though you know he’s crazy about you.” Emy inhaled deeply. “The thing in the bottle is why you can’t get pregnant even if Reed shoots his sperm into you, right?”

“It’s not illegal; they call it pills. Doctors suggested it for women who are not pregnant yet.”

“Why you are afraid to get pregnant?”

Emy looked at Devin. “I’m a woman, Devin, a human. I don’t just need sex. ”

“So you’re waiting for Reed to love you?”

“Is it really out of the question?”

“Emy, Reed is a demon. He is not a human,” said Devin. “He will be furious when he finds out you are taking pills to keep from getting pregnant. Our elites care about the heir.”

“I also care about who I am as a human,” said Emy. “Even though I’m so stupid, I won’t get pregnant without being so sure. You even said Reed was a demon. How can I be sure that he doesn’t just want a baby? We don’t have a relationship, and I can’t call him mine. For everyone, Reed is in love with me, for the truth is I was just like his sex slave.”

“Then tell me how to love,” Devin said.

Emy gave Devin a quick look. “Should I explain? Reed is having a hard time understanding and accepting, so it will be hard for you to understand, too.”

“Every time you talk to me this way, I feel you want to kill me.”

“What?” Emy was confused.

“The normal heart rate of a demon is slower than that of a human, so when you or I get close to you, my heart beats faster, making me feel like I’m going to have a heart attack. It felt like my heart was trying to get out of my ribs and out of my chest. You even have control over how I breathe. I can’t breathe normally when you are near me. You are also the reason I can’t sleep at night...”

“A-are you ...” Emy asked with a frown. “Do you have feelings for me?”

“So what I’m going through is love?” Devin chuckled.

“Well, from what you said, it sounds like you developed feelings for me. If that keeps up, you might be in love with me.”

“So, the love that makes people crazy is a dangerous feeling?”

“What? Deadly? ”

“Because what I feel seems to be you are killing me slowly. A strange heart rate, strange breathing, and trouble sleeping.” Devin said. “It is deadly.”

Emy suddenly laughed. Devin was shocked and kept staring at Emy. Devin could not help but smile when she laughed.

“Do I look like a fool?” Devin asked with a frown.

Emy stopped laughing and then became serious suddenly. “This is what it’s like when someone likes you,” she said, then blew air. “I don’t know why you feel that way about me when we’ve only just met and talked. We don’t hang out much. As you said, we’re just acquaintances.”

Devin turned away. He and Emy don’t see each other very often, but he keeps an eye on it every day. Emy didn’t know he was once close to her. He feels calm when he does that thing, but he doesn’t plan for that to be his routine.

“I hope Reed will feel the same way, too.”

Devin said nothing because he was feeling pain in his heart that he couldn’t explain.

Reed teleported into Jasmin’s house at the same time. He was still out of it and had a slight cut on the top of his head. Reed tried to use his ability to heal because of this. Reed put his hand on the top of Jasmin’s head. He let out black smoke, which surrounded the wound, but it did nothing. He tried a few times, but he didn’t have the power to heal even a slight wound.

Reed was angry and said, “Damn it!”

Reed went back and looked for the first aid kit. He looked in the bathroom but found nothing, so he looked in the cabinets. He also saw nothing.

“She doesn’t have a first-aid kit at home?” Reed asked himself.

He went up to Jasmin’s bag and looked inside for medicine. He saw something big that could cover the wound.

“This one is strange because it is soft.”

Reed took off the glue from the back. When he saw that the glue was on the back instead of the pad, he frowned.

“What’s this, and why is the glue on the back? How can I put it on Jasmine’s wound?”

He took a quick look at Jasmin’s cut and and took the wrapper of the pad and read it.

‘Pantyliner?’

—-

Emy had just finished bandaging Devin’s cut when Reed walked in. It appeared out of nowhere in the room. Reed’s forehead wrinkled when he saw Devin was looking at Emy while he was busy putting gauze on his wound.

“It’s good that you’re still alive.”

Devin looked over at Reed and laughed. “You don’t think I’ll die, do you?”

“Yeah,” Reed said.

Emy got up when she was done, making the wound better. She looked over at Reed.

“How is Jasmin doing?” Emy asked. “Is she alright?”

“She’s still asleep, but she’s okay. She was probably still sleeping because she had too much alcohol earlier.”

“She has a cut on the on her forehead...”

“I’ve taken care of her wound. I also put a bandage on her wound that stuck to itself.”

“Wow, that was very kind of you. Thank you. ”

Reed smiled. “Aren’t you okay? Maybe we can go home. ”

“Okay,” said Devin. “Go home.”

“Should I tell Eve that she should come to visit you?” Emy asked.

“Why would I visit Devin?”

Everyone in the room looked at the door. Eve smiled and walked toward them. She glanced at Emy.

“Hi, Emy, did you miss me?”

Eve didn’t expect Emy to come up to her out of the blue and hug her. When they last saw each other, she left Emy to go after the demon who was trying to hurt her. In their realm, it’s been almost five months.

“Can you please stop hugging me? Right now, I was horny, and maybe... ” Eve was about to say something, but Reed suddenly pulled Emy closer to him. She laughed at Reed’s action.

“Emy is off limits, Eve. Don’t act like a creep,” said Reed.

“Of course, I’m interested, Reed,” Eve said, upset. “I’m not a pervert.”

“We’re going home. If you want to get f-cked, you can ask Devin.”

Eve looked at Devin and saw that he was looking at Emy. Emy didn’t know that Devin was looking at her because she was looking at Reed. Emy and Reed got up and walked toward the door. Reed opened the door, and they went out of the room. Eve was sitting on the couch near Devin’s bed, staring at him with her arms folded. Devin picked up on that.

“Stop looking at me. I don’t want sex right now,” said Devin. He closed his eyes and rested his head on the bed’s headboard.

“Not in the mood, or do you want to have sex with someone else?”

.....

Devin didn’t answer because he didn’t know what Eve was talking about. Eve never takes her eyes off of Devin. She noticed Devin was strangely looking at Emy, but she didn’t ask him about it because she was more interested in finding out what it was.

“I heard Emy went to a different realm. How did she make it through?”

“I was left here, so I don’t know what happened to them in the realm, but she did cross over.”

“So she knows already where we come from,” said Eve. “But why does she seem to get closer to Reed instead of being scared?”

“Emy has feelings for Reed.”

Eve laughed out of the blue. “Feelings? How did you know? What do you know about love? We can’t love Devin, because we’re demons. Emy is only making herself hurt.” Eve sees Devin was wounded. “What happened?”

“The figure who attacked you is the same figure who attacked Reed and me.”

“And you’ll hurt yourself. Devin is a genuine hero. You care about the king.” Eve said, laughing.

“I want to get even with that thing, Eve. I didn’t do it for Reed. He didn’t believe in me, so I didn’t believe in him either. We just try to be fair to each other.”

“Perhaps you killed that bastard.”

“Unfortunately no. Before he died, he had an ally who saves him.”

“Ally? So you’re saying there’s over one demon who wants to kill us?”

“Yeah, I thought the same thing.”

“Damn that bastard. If I could only kill... ”

Devin took a big breath. “Just because you want sex, come back to this world...”

“Yeah, I’m going to find my prospect right now.” Eve got up and stepped toward Devin.

Devin looked at Eve when he opened his eyes. “Be careful Eve.”

Eve smiled at Devin. “I will ...”