She still refused.

Ryan didn't understand why she wouldn't agree to the pact, in which he asked nothing more of her being his companion for the rest of his life. Of course with clauses that would ensure that she wouldn't drain his life **** to feed or couldn't take his soul to the Abyss when he finally died. Standard boiler plate pact when dealing with summoned demons. If he should be lucky to live to a hundred it would be but a flicker of time to her.

"Please, master, dismiss me!" the succubus pleaded again as she watched the young archeologist approach the pentagram.

"Chul-ka mak-thális!" Ryan muttered the ancient words and observed the demoness twist in agony as her black bat-like wings shriveled and shrank before falling off like autumn leaves.

"Master..."

"Agree to the pact!" Ryan scanned the symbols of the pentagram, making sure he didn't make any errors so that the succubus would breach her bindings.

"Master please..." Marlissa sobbed, tears running down her beautiful face.

Ryan, standing a few feet from the demoness, paused and looked at her. In the past he took a guilty pleasure of taunting and torturing summoned demons who refused to obey his commands with the utterance of a few arcane words, but he felt pity for Marlissa.