A Demon's Portal by Emilia Hartley

Author:Emilia Hartley [Hartley, Emilia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-03-19T16:00:00+00:00

The air smelled of tomato sauce and charred pepperoni. There were screaming children in the background. My boots stuck to the soda-covered floor. No place on earth was as welcoming as my favorite pizza place.

Morgan, however, turned up his nose.

I ignored him and found Luca in the far corner—always the corner, where he could put his back to a wall. I rolled my eyes.

“Did you at least order food while waiting for us?” I asked as I dropped into my chair.

Luca looked Morgan up and down. I couldn’t figure out if Luca had clocked Morgan’s vulnerable state or if he was simply offput by Morgan’s cleanshaven face. Perhaps it was both, since the lack of beard made Morgan’s pale visage even more obvious.

“Food,” I repeated.

Luca’s attention snapped to me. He narrowed his eyes at me threateningly. While Morgan growled in warning, I simply beamed at my friend. What was he going to do? Attack me in a pizza place with a bunch of kids watching?

Unlikely.

The tired waitress returned and took our order. I added an extra order of cannoli dip because I needed sugar to keep me going today. Might as well, since Luca was paying.

Once the waitress left, I turned to my friend. “Keep an eye out. There’s a demon roaming outside the city. It hasn’t entered the city yet, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it found its way to your estate eventually.”

Luca didn’t seem the least bit bothered. “You really think that I need worry about a demon? They’re easy to exorcise.”

“No. This one is different. It’s not wearing a human vessel. It’s walking around all on its own.”

Luca sat forward in his chair. This time, he looked me up and down. I got it. I was the only other demon he knew that could walk around without a vessel. I mean, I kind of did have a vessel: the human part of me. At least, that’s what I figured.

This demon, on the other hand, was prowling around the suburbs of Syracuse with his horns out if you caught my drift.

“It seems that the gate you opened allowed quite a bit to enter into our world.” Luca tongued one of his incisors as he thought. “This is not a low-ranking demon. Many of the demons we encounter in this world are like worker bees. They’re drones sent out to do a job and return home with a good. Those with enough power and souls at their disposal are the ones who command the worker bees. I’ve never had to worry about them before because they can’t fit through the usual gates as easily. The souls inside them make them too large for the gates.

“However, if you open up a large enough gate, then the generals can slip through.”

I blinked, stunned. “Did you just say generals? There are generals in hell?”

I didn’t like the sound of that. Why didn’t I notice any of this the day we opened the portal? I’d been distracted by my vision. Still, someone

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