The Price of the Deal — Book 3

Ben Cole has already said no once.

Twenty-one. Average face. Average everything. The system he built still runs Brantwed Logistics. The corner office is still his. The contract still says he cannot be fired. None of that changes the fact that something higher has been watching. It watched him refuse ownership. It watched him refuse forever. It watched him stand in a hospital room and turn down the easiest kind of eternity because he would not outlive the women who chose him.

Those women have not stopped choosing.

Julie still carries his child and still arranges nights without asking him to pick. Kathy is still in Portland. Kamilla still shares the apartment one floor down. The half-demon sisters who bound themselves to him with blood and free will are still here. More are waiting. And the demoness who offered him a hundred women in exchange for his soul has not forgotten that he told her no.

Something older than the company is listening again.

It heard a man who already had demoness wives look at an offer of wings and a domain of his own and hesitate. It heard him say he would not stand young and endless while the people he loved grew old and died. And it has decided the conversation is not finished. The dark that stepped through once is still moving. The light that stopped time in a hospital room has not gone back where it came from. And the women who have already decided what they want from him are no longer content to wait for him to decide what he is willing to become.

Ben wanted a raise and a kiss.

He is about to learn what it costs to keep saying no when heaven itself has already decided the price of yes. When the bonds in his blood are no longer the only ones that can lock. When the women who chose him are still choosing. And when something that should have stayed above decides the refusal is worth answering.

This is the final book in the series. The deal ends here.