Lucifer I look down at my beautiful mate’s face and clench my jaw tightly as I flash us to my home. Though she holds on to my arms tightly, her breathing is still erratic. “It’s getting harder to control her,” she whispers. I lay her on top of the bed and run my gaze appraisingly across her face again. In my long existence, I’ve experienced very little loss. However, as I stood before my mate and watched her struggle with madness, fear, as I’ve never known, overwhelmed me. I could feel Apolliana’s hold over her strengthening at that moment. “I know it is, luv. But you broke through, and that’s all that matters now.” Lana bends her knees and wraps her arms around them, “Her rage was poisonous. But I could feel that it had more to do with her madness than her anger. It’s almo