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Chapter 14 : A Pragmatic Approach
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I wallow in Eva's dorm room for the next few days. She'd been an actual saint when I'd shown up at her door, a mess and crying like I'd just gotten broken up with, and ushered me in while tucking me into her small twin bed while I babbled on about everything to her.I couldn't hold back while I spilled everything—confessing every morsel of information I'd been withholding from her over the past few weeks because I didn't want her to judge me. My heart ached, remembering Sol's devastated expression as I'd turned around and left him wailing after me like a dog left behind by its owner. And even that, too, I told her about.The sound wouldn't leave my ears, even in my dreams it haunted me. She'd been quiet for a long while, petting me gently to sleep while murmuring we were going to figure it out together. But how? How could I let a demon invade my life so thoroughly and leave me feeling so devastated afterwards? It didn't seem fair. I knew he'd be leaving and
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Daelic peers around me to where Eva is rooted to her spot in the doorway. Her robe is wrapped tightly around her body with her hair folded up in a towel on top of her head. Her face is red from the heat of the shower but there's a growing spotchiness crawling up her neck the longer she stares at us.I try to consider what she sees, me with a demon and a glowing portal to Hell behind us. It pulsates inside of the room steadily like a beating drum. Thrumming through my chest and spending a chill down my spine from the dark magic emitting from it.For all intents and purposes, this is an actual nightmare in the making."Eva," I clasp my hands together. Stepping between them both, I use my body as a shield until I vaguely realize he's much taller than me. "This is Daelic. One of Sol's—""Why is there a demon in my dorm, Narine?!"Quickly shuffling across the room, I grab her arm and haul her inside before shutting the door behind her. Having an R.A. overhearing her
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My heart hammers in my chest the moment I hear Sol's voice. I want to cry, I want to laugh, I want to get up and go over to him and punch him square in the face. There's so many emotions brimming to the surface it's hard to decide on which one to act on first.When I go to lift my head, Somner's hand tightens its hold on my hair, forcing me to remain flat on my back. His hard cock presses into my leg uncomfortably, trapping me in a weirdly sexual position. "Get out of here, man." Somner calls across the small clearing. "Go find your own witch to bang."My hands press up against his shoulder in order to shake him off of me. He's going to get himself killed if he keeps talking to my demon like that. Sol lets out a dark laugh. "I think you're mistaken. You have my witch."A shiver rolls through me. Embarrassingly, my core heats at his words. My body craves for him to rip me out from under Somner and throw me onto my stomach so he can claim me for himself. It's s
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Belial's body shudders around the blade's edge, the point of it skewering him through his sternum in a sickening way. More blood drips down onto the ground, coating the front of his plate armor with thin rivets. I stare in horror as blood bubbles out of his mouth, his teeth clenching together in anger.He rips himself off of Sol's sword, stumbling towards me with purposed steps. I kick at the ground, trying to move away from the sharp end of that blade rearing at me but the branches only hold me tighter in place. My eyes screw shut as I wait for the blow to bring me into oblivion. I can't believe I'm going to die this way. Held down and covered in vines that leave me as a sitting duck for a Hell prince to come kill me. It figures, honestly. My karma has finally caught up to me and is now serving me my final killing shot because I've been stupid enough to fraternize with a damn demon.What surprises me more is the sword never severs my head but actually ends up sinking i
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"In bellis gerimus, pugnas vincimus.In victoria surgemus, pro pace defendimus.Sanguine ligamur, in familiis ligamur.Sicut lupi in iumentis, simul equitamus." "In the wars, we wadge are the battles we win.In victory, we rise for the peace we defend.In blood we are bound, in families, we are tied.Like wolves in the pack, together we ride."~ The Lovell Family MottoWritten on the Crest of Wolves located on the Family Manor,Sleepy Hallow, NY "Jonathan, can you hear me?"My brother-in-law's pale brown eye's dilated, which was a good sign. That meant the hypnotic suggestion was working. Father Jacobs had given me a wide berth of space once I'd dealt with the demon, so I knew the man wouldn't really object to this necessary step in the witness process.Especially not when he had his hands full with a hysterical Mr. and Mrs. Lyle.I'd been reduced to wearing some leftover clean clothes from the lost and found while the Sisters of Our Mother's Merciful Tears we
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Creatures of THE Night Chapter 20 : Six Months Later-Gabriel
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Creatures of THE Night Chapter 19 : Burying Demons-Lucy
Lucy's POVI was floating in the black. The call of the void beneath my feet. A bottomless ocean. Deeper than the heavens above. I watched the clouds split apart, beckoning me to rise, but I chose to sink deeper and deeper. Finding warmth in the abyss.A burning pain seared my throat, churning my stomach with an insatiable hunger as my eyes shot open. Air clawed into my lungs, even if I didn't need it. I felt cold. Usually, I could hear my heart beating in my ears.Blood rushed under my skin. Warming my cheeks.But I heard nothing.Felt nothing.Except for this nauseating hunger.Disorienting. The first face I saw was Gabriel's, leaning over me, fully dressed. The last thing I could remember was intertwining myself with him and Vivi. Finding a mind-bending pleasure as I soared.Intoxicated in the sensations. Until everything became cold. Chills and pain settled over my body, and it paralyzed me. I remember the pain heightening to a point where I couldn't breathe, my
Creatures of THE Night Chapter 18 : Fresh Bloods-Vivianna
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Lucy's POVThere was no time to react. Vivianna shoved Alistair against the wall, cracking the stone as Vivianna sliced through him with claws. Her face had morphed into that of a monster, with fangs and veins, while Alistair morphed into something resembling a wolfman. They disappeared into the darkness of the cave, but I could hear them.Every hit sounded like grinding stone. Heavy impacts. Blood spraying across the chasm. Hissing and snarling echoed off the walls, but I wasn't sure who had the upper hand, and I was afraid to think it was Alistair.Gabriel crumpled against the ground, and I ran to him, beaten and bloody. His shoulder was torn open, riddled with bite marks just like Alistair had shown me. God, he felt so cold. No shirt to protect him from the chill of being underground."Gabriel," I whispered, cupping his handsome face, bruised and pallid. Lacking his natural healthy, honey gold tan. "Baby." I stroked his cheeks with my thumbs and he groaned. A noise of pai
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Vivianna's POVA sinking feeling filled my gut.Where was Gabriel? He hadn't returned after his meeting with William. The moon was high in the sky, the middle of the night. He should have been back by now. I turned to look at Lucy, still barely coherent, mumbling nonsensical words.Alistair wasn't ready to use her yet. I didn't like thinking about what he would use her for. All the things he did to me under his thrall…took centuries to heal from. Some I'm still healing from. She was sweating, small sobs breaking from her chest like he had her submerged into an eternal nightmare.Seeing Lucy in so much pain. So much terror on her face. It broke my heart. I reached out to comb my fingers through her matted curls, and I swear my touch relaxed her a little. Her nose unwrinkled, and instead of being afraid, she just seemed exhausted.So much sleep, but so little rest."Wake up, Lucy," I whispered, leaning down to press a kiss against her forehead. "Come back to me." Her eyeli
Creatures of THE Night Chapter 13 : Protector-Gabriel
Gabriel's POVThe sun was setting.I was so close to town. Just a little further. No longer than a thirty minutes drive. Northpass had already slammed their doors, locking up for the night. I was absorbed by my thoughts.By my plans. Billy had answered most of my questions, and I wouldn't have gotten very far without him. In fact, I'd probably be dead in the water. Billy was callous and resistant, but he was good for his word.The sunset painted the sky with all sorts of colors, violets, and oranges. Beautifully disappearing into a night sky, only lit by a full moon. A brewing storm cloud perpetually floated above the castle, waiting to storm, but never able to. Like it was trapped in eternity with Vivianna.My mind wandered to them. How Vivianna would care for my wife. I should be there. Dampening Lucy's forehead with a cool cloth. Easing her fever and erasing her chill. I should be listening to her cries, holding her hand, and keeping her from falling too deeply.Bu
Creatures of THE Night Chapter 12 : Alukah-Gabriel
Gabriel's POV"So Elizabeth Bathory really was a vampire?" I asked, the journal open on my lap. My leg was crossed over the other, giving me a flat surface to work on while I face Vivianna.I took notes as I analyzed everything she had to say. It was like a dam of information had cracked wide open, spilling and overflowing the river beneath it.All of the pieces were falling together. The mystery of the portrait under the library. The missing people. How Vivianna enticed me.Vivianna had her legs parted, speaking easily, freely. She didn't have anything to hide now. She nodded, gazing at me with interest. "Elizabeth liked virgins. She'd host extravagant parties and every guest had to bring her a virgin. Alistair was a frequent attendee.""You said you slayed her. How?""The first fifty years of my curse was a bloody blur." She paused. "Pleasure. Death. Emptiness. I was so empty until one of Elizabeth's citizens grabbed my arm in passing, begging me to save his daughter from
