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As Destiny and Sebastian investigate the Eden Society, their marriage becomes the center of a supernatural conspiracy. Someone is attempting to create an artificial demon capable of consuming souls without forming contracts—and they require blood from Sebastian’s true form and the death energy within Destiny to complete it. Destiny must work beside Ciel despite distrusting his control over her husband. Over time, she becomes fiercely protective of the young earl, although she disguises her affection through threats, sarcasm, and secretly leaving enchanted knives beneath his pillow. Sebastian’s perfect composure also begins to slip. He becomes openly possessive whenever Undertaker teases Destiny, irritated when Grell calls her “a gothic goddess,” and merciless toward anyone who touches the red wedding mark on her thigh. Their greatest enemy eventually reveals that Sebastian’s contract with Ciel contains a hidden condition: when Sebastian consumes Ciel’s soul, Destiny will be dragged back to the Grim Reaper Dispatch and executed for desertion. For the first time, Sebastian must choose between completing a contract—and protecting the only soul he has ever refused to devour. When Destiny offers to surrender herself to save him, Sebastian reveals his terrifying true form and places her upon his throne of shadows. “I existed for centuries before I met you,” he tells her, his skeletal hand holding her with impossible gentleness. “Do not mistake existence for living.” Destiny touches the face beneath his skull-like mask. “And if Hell itself comes to separate us?” Sebastian’s snakes coil protectively around them as his crimson eyes ignite. “Then Hell will learn why demons pray that I remain a butler.”