C20 TWENTY

Our Fears Do Make Us

ROSE

When our actions do not,

Our fears do make us traitors.

— William Shakespeare, Macbeth

WE HAD TO move, to check on the others, to make sure Bankun's enthrall had been destroyed when he was banished back to the demon dimension, but I didn't want to let go of Derek. He was himself again. No taint of demon, no stench of blood lust, just the love of my life in the flesh