Chapter 11

Feron was still suspicious and had repeatedly asked why they came to Gandhandi to get married in the first place. Jericho seamlessly answered that they wanted to do it in his birthplace, after which Feron finally agreed to marry them. This should have relieved Rose. She didn't know what she would do if Jericho and her failed to get married and access the ritual's powers. Getting defeated by Joanna once was all she could bear. She couldn’t do that again.

But Jericho revealing his true nature bothered her greatly.

You're Nephilim, Feron had told her fiance.

Nephilim were half-angel, half-human creatures whose impure souls left them sickly and dead by the time they reached puberty. Jericho was ill, that much Rose could see, but from the looks of him, Jericho might be in his early twenties already. If he were truly a Nephilim, he should be long gone. She didn’t know what could have given him a longer life than intended. But she was certain of one thing--he was definitely after the rit