Balance (The Balance Series Book 1) by Janelle Stalder

Author:Janelle Stalder [Stalder, Janelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: NA urban fantasy
Publisher: Black Quill Publishing
Published: 2016-11-29T05:00:00+00:00

He could hear the girl crying from where she lay on the bed. He admitted to himself that maybe he shouldn’t have taken all his anger out on her, but there had been no one else around for him.

Dermot stood by his bedroom window now, slowly pulling on the cigarette he had just lit. The news this morning had made him angrier than he had been in many years. He had been waiting to see if the police would actually figure it out, however he had been sceptical from the beginning.

Then his thoughts went back to the girl, as they so often had lately. Her green eyes seemed to haunt him at night, like no other ever had. He didn’t understand why Caleb felt the way he did about the girl. Could the old writings have been right all along? Dermot didn’t give much weight to what the human species envisioned, considering their knowledge of his kind was limited at best.

Perhaps the Brotherhood, the annoying creatures that they were, had been on to something? Was this Vivian more than what she appeared?

Of course, Dermot knew they had gotten some major aspects of their little prophecy wrong. He’d known it the moment he and Nora had welcomed their youngest son into the world. It was a crucial aspect to the story that the Brotherhood was completely unaware of.

Dermot had known though. He’d known the moment he’d held Caleb for the first time. He’d seen his future in the strangely cognizant blue eyes of the infant who had watched him back so calmly, despite being thrust into the cold, hard world.

He’d avoided this for centuries now, and knowing that it could all come to pass was nearly destroying him. He was losing his self-control more often than usual, which was not good for maintaining appearances.

He heard the girl behind him again, and knew something would have to be done about that. The last thing he wanted now was some whore telling police what the famous Defence Attorney, Dermot Banks, had done to her.

He ignored her for a moment, focusing back on the French girl. With the revelation this morning, he knew he couldn’t attack her directly anymore. Caleb would be furious with him, and Dermot still needed Caleb on his side if he was going to ensure the prophecy never came to pass.

Dermot came to the decision that the only discreet way to get to the girl would be to continue haunting her in her head. Everyone had bad dreams, he mused to himself. He would just help to intensify them for the girl, and perhaps even seem to haunt her while she is awake. Hopefully she’d be so scared, or think she was going crazy, that she wouldn’t even mention it to Caleb.

A befitting devilish smile spread across Dermot’s face. Eventually they would get to her and she really would go crazy, then she would have no choice but to leave Caleb alone. She would want to get as far away as possible from him.

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