Vale's POV
Vincent's darkness crashed into my soul like a black wave.
Every terrible thing he'd ever done hit me at once. The pain he'd caused. The lives he'd destroyed. The pure hate that had driven him for years.
I screamed as his memories became mine.
"Fight it!" Dante's voice echoed in my mind through our bond. "Don't let it consume you!"
But Vincent's evil was so strong. It wrapped around my heart like poison, trying to turn me into something just like him.
That's when I realized something important. The blood bond didn't just let Vincent's darkness into me. It let my light into him.
And Vincent couldn't handle that.
He was writhing on the ground, clutching his head as my moonlight burned through his mind.
"What's happening to me?" he gasped.
"You're feeling what goodness is like," I said, struggling to stay standing. "And it hurts, doesn't it?"
