I can take him

"Open your eyes," Bestien's voice sounded close to me. "Open them, let me show you how beautiful the world looks when it burns," he added.

I feel his hot breath on my neck and gulp down the feeling right away. His forceful gaze meets mine and I feel my heart skip a beat. The devil was gorgeous but intimidating.

"You can't deny the beauty of fire, especially hell fire," Bestien said with his lips curling up into a smirk.

"I ha-hate fire," I managed to let in. Bestien turned his head to the side and raised his brows at me. I couldn't deny how handsome he looked in that position.

I straightened my back and avoided his eyes, I think about him in ways that were wrong. Everything about the temptation before me was wrong. His perfect blue eyes, his strong and well sculptured body and the devious glint in his eyes.

"I highly doubt that," Bestien spoke out his voice barely a whisper.

It was hard to swallow the lump in my throat. He could see right through me and his words attacked the reality I was trying to ignore.

I wanted him to show me the world set on fire. But my mind fought the urge to give in to the devil. I was the protector of the world, my duty was to do all that was possible to keep the peace. Not let the devil burn it before me.

"You can't deny me forever. Sooner or later you'll give in," Bestien uttered.

I bite my tongue knowing the truth that lied in his words. His pull was hard to ignore and it would be harder once my feelings grow stronger. A day he spoke of might come sooner rather than later.

The world will be doomed if such a day were to come. The day that I will lose control to the devil and let him take over. Control the fate of the heavens, earth and hell altogether.

The balance of nature and the world would fall and the day of the direction would forever be lost. Darkness would fill every corner of the world, of Bestien doesn't burn everything down first.

"Stop," he demanded out of the blue. His voice resonated as his eyes met mine. I stopped cold and looked to him expectantly, waiting as his melodic voice echoed inside my head.

'That's it,' his whisper rattled inside my brain. As I found it hard to move, he didn't use his charm on me but I couldn't move. My will was letting him take charge. To be in control, "Obey," he ushered with a happy grin on his face.

Bestien made no move to retreat, his dark, piercing eyes bored into mine, as though trying to see through all the way to my soul.

"Will you let me show you?" He whispered.

His hand reached out and grabbed hold of my chin. Hus touch ever so gentle not too hard to hurt me and not too light for me not to feel it. It was just the right amount of pressure that he placed into the touch.

My heart melted at how careful he was being with me. In his touch like this, I was ready to give up control, to let go and have him hold me in his warm and strong arms.

"Ye..yes," I answered a little unsure of what I was signing up for. The council would have my head for the choice that I made, but in this moment, it didn't matter.

They didn't matter and we're irrelevant. My heart was held with emotions from the devil, my mind held captive by thoughts of him and my body stuck by his magnetic pull that drew me in.

All of me was his in that moment. "You are mine," Bestien barked out to me.

My body twitched at his words. My heart thundering loudly against my chest making me aware of how much the devil affected me. My cheeks burnt hot as his sizzling words.

"Jae!"

The loud shout of my name broke my trance. I blinked and looked around the room to realise that I was still in the council meeting at breakfast.

Letting out a deep breath, I glanced ahead with an expressionless face, facing the members of my council that find it fit to come to my house and sit at my dining table so early in the morning to hold a meeting.

Taking a sip of the honey tea on the table, I blinked away the weird scene that just played in my mind. I realised that Bestien was taking over my mind.

"Facing Bestien won't be a problem on my end," I let out confidently. "I can take him," I assured them.

My mouth was saying one thing but my mind was telling me something else. There was no way I could face the devil's son. Not after the scene that just played on my head, it felt so real as though I was face to face with Bestien.

If I couldn't hold on to my control with him in my mind. There no way I could do it in real life.

"That's good to hear, especially since the school will be located in hell," the head advisor dropped the news.

My heart almost stopped beating when I heard what he said. I had a doubt in my mind that the angel understood how big of a news he just dropped on me.

"To be fair to the devils and show that they aren't always expected to compromise for us all the time. The order thought that it's best the school be shifted to hell this year," another angel spoke out.

Any other day such news wouldn't have mattered to me. But today was not one of those days, I gulped. My fingers digging into my palm. The pain front hand keeping me sane with all the eyes at me.

"That was thoughtful of the order. I certainly approve of this choice," I let out and saw approving nods across the table.

Deep down, I had devilish thoughts. Thoughts of finding the one who made that decision and making them rue the day they ever thought of sending angels to hell, especially me.

"We should proceed to discuss your moves against Bestien. How would you like to handle him?"

The question was brought to my attention. The thoughts of the weird scene that played in my mind replayed over and over again. I couldn't help but stand up from my seat.

"I have to see my father. Pardon me but this meeting has to end here," I let out to them and walked away before they could let in a word.

I wondered where my soul had wondered off to. Of all the days for him to leave my side, this had to be the worst.

"I hate my life," I groaned.