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demon moves toward me.  He’s faster than I anticipated.  He puts one
     hand around my neck and I can feel his nails scratching against my skin.  In a matter
     of seconds, he throws me against the wall, and snatches Trent to take him away.  Samael
     jumps on his back to try and stop him.  Trent cries even more.  I feel dizzy as I
     get up from the floor, but I manage to stand and move forward to help Samael, but
     he drops to the floor in pain and Ezra takes the opportunity to get away with Trent.  
     I get down to help Samael.  
    “Are you going to be okay?” I ask.  
    He nods.  
    “We need to get you and Trent out of here!” he growls.  
    “Yeah, yeah… and you too.”  
    “Worried about me?”  
    I shrug.  “No one deserves to be stuck in Hell.  Well, except for Ezra.”  
    The door swings open again and Ezra comes in, and I freeze in place at the sight of
     him.  He is no longer in human form like usual, but he is not in demonic form either.
      He still uses the human body as a shell, but his eyes are yellow, and his hands have
     finger nails so long and sharp that he wouldn’t need but one of them to kill a human.  
    I can tell that Samael is still hurt and weak, and even though I’ve never been so
     terrified of anyone before, I stand between Samael and the demon, determined to protect
     Samael at all costs.  
     

SIXTEEN  
    SAMAEL  
    I can see the fury in his eyes and I can’t believe Kayla is trying to defend me now
     of all times.  I don’t even think I’ve ever seen him this furious before.  
    “Kayla, move!” I say as I manage to sit up.  
    Ezra walks past her, pushing her to the side and putting up an invisible wall so that
     she can’t get near us.  He then continues to approach me.  I can hear her yelling
     at him, but I block it out.  I use all of my strength to stand up.  
     “You foolish nephilim,” Ezra snaps.  “We are done here!  Is being human what you
     really want?”  
    I don’t say anything.  I know that right now, being human would make me weak and being
     weak decreases my chances of getting Kayla and Trent out of here.  
    “How foolish of you to think I would make your dreams come true without strings attached,”
     he says.  
    He walks closer to me and I stand where I am.  
    He stops right in front of me and reaches into his pocket.  He moves before I can
     do anything.  I feel the dagger pierce my stomach and I drop down to the floor.  He
     puts his hand on the wound and says a few words in a language that I don’t recognize.
        
    He then looks at Kayla.  
    “Do we have a problem?”  
    She is frozen but she shakes her head.  
    “Good.” He looks at me one more time, “Remember that this is what you asked for,”
     he says.  
    He walks away and as soon as he is out of the room, the wall holding Kayla drops,
     and she comes rushing toward me.  
    My memory flashes back to when she got stabbed at the Academy and I carried her to
     the infirmary.    
    My eyes start to close, but she cups my face in her hands and says, “Look at me.  Just
     focus on me and stay awake!”  She grabs a shirt stacked on the floor and puts it over
     the wound trying to keep blood from sipping out of my body, but I know this won’t
     happen.  She tries to heal me and I feel when some of the pain is taken away.  
    I try to each into my pocket, but she stops me.  “Don’t move,” she says.  
    “Pocket—”  
    She reaches into my pocket and grabs her ring.  She looks at me as if she is hurt.  
    “I’m sorry,” I say.  
    “Why would you—”  
    “I was hoping I could make you forget him.  I don’t want you to get hurt, Kayla.  You
     and I are two of a kind.  We understand each other.  I thought maybe we could take
     Trent away… together and—” I start to cough up blood.  She tries to heal me again,
     but I can feel the blood, I can feel myself get weak, and there is no amount of healing
     that will help me.  And