Three nights before Henry Strauss’s deadline, Adeline LaRue slips out of bed while Henry sleeps, unable to rest with the end approaching. Near two in the morning, she walks to the Merchant bar in Brooklyn, drawn there by a decision she has been building toward.

Addie orders a shot of tequila and takes out the wooden ring Henry gave her, balancing it upright and spinning it as if it could decide for her. Before it can fall, a hand stops it—Luc has arrived, cool and unsmiling, and asks why she is not with her love. Addie admits Henry is asleep, but she cannot sleep, and she notes bitterly that pain passes for humans, but not for beings like them.

Luc presses her about her “human love,” and Addie answers simply that it was not what she dreamed—letting Luc believe what he wants to believe. Addie then confronts him directly: Henry does not deserve to die for Luc’s point, and while Luc insists a deal cannot be broken, Addie reminds him that deals can be bent and terms rewritten.

Addie clarifies she is not asking to change Henry’s bargain; she is offering to rewrite her own. She proposes a trade: Luc must let Henry live and let Henry remember Addie. In exchange, Addie offers not her soul but what Luc truly wants—Addie herself—promising to be his for as long as he wants her by his side.

Luc’s hesitation gives way to triumph, and he accepts. He seals the agreement with a hungry kiss, drawing blood, and Addie knows the choice is final and the deal is done.