"I wish... I wish..." she muttered, staring him down.

"Don't you dare say it!" he growled back.

"I wish you never existed," she cried with tears streaming down her face.

"No. Please," he muttered face distorting as he's pulled backwards through a portal that had ripped its way into existence.

"I'm sorry," she said, watching him disappear.

As soon as he was gone and the portal closed, she crashed to the floor finally able to breath again. She was free of his control, no longer bound by her pact with the demon.

Her deal with the devil had given her the man of her dreams but he quickly became the man of her nightmares.

"One more wish, master," a voice said from behind her.

"Just one?" she asked.

"You did want me to combine his erasure with freeing you from your pact, right?" the genie asked.

"Yeah. Yeah I did. I guess I just didn't realize it would still cost me two wishes," she sighed, "Do I have to make the third right now? Can I take a moment to process that he's really gone?"

The genie quietly nodded and slipped back into his lamp. She walked over to the sofa, plucking the small oil lamp from the table as she passed.

Several hours later, she was still sitting on the sofa staring blankly at nothing with the genie lamp cradled in her lap.

"He's really gone," she breathed, letting out a slight chuckle.

Her life had been a waking nightmare for the last year as all the little quirks she'd wanted and hoped for in a man grew more and more frustrating. The way he constantly wanted to know where she was due to being protective. The way his possessiveness cost her all of her friends and family. The way his love became a bargaining chip and merely transactional. But that was all gone now. She was free.

Suddenly, she realized what it was she wanted for her final wish. She looked down at the little lamp and held it up. Rubbing the side, she smiled confidently as the genie appeared in front of her once again.

"Yes, master?" the genie asked.

"I wish to set you free, genie," she said.

And with those words, the genie's restraints fell away, the lamp disappeared, and the genie became human.