BeastofDarkness by Beast of Darkness (html)

Author:Beast of Darkness (html)
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

S arah tossed and turned in the bed, screaming out in her mind as the cold bitterness of the familiar nightmare claimed her. Once again locked inside those moments so many years before when someone close to her—someone she trusted like a brother—had pulled the trigger of a gun two times, two deadly bullets hitting their targets and stealing her parents’ lives.

Sarah lived that moment again, collapsing over her parents’ bodies, touching them, searching for life that wasn’t there to be found. “No,” she whispered, shaking, her gaze lifting to the one who held the gun—to Kevin, a man who’d worked closely with her family for years. Had he always been this…this evil thing? Had she missed the signs? “Why?” she sobbed, her voice and hands shaking. “Why?”

But what she saw when she looked at Kevin wasn’t Kevin at all. Red eyes, evil and full of malice, stared back at her. “Who are you?” she demanded, but she knew already. She knew this was the demon they’d been hunting, the one the police thought was a serial killer. How long had Kevin been controlled by that demon? How long?

She let her lashes flutter, eyes shut. She would die next. But seconds passed and nothing happened. “Do it!” she screamed, wanting to die. She’d lost everything; she’d failed her family.

When she fixed her gaze on Kevin, for a moment she saw the man she’d known—or she thought she did. She couldn’t be sure. And then, before she could stop it, before she even knew what was happening, the gun turned on Kevin.

“No!” Sarah shrieked, pushing to her feet, not sure if Kevin was really Kevin anymore—if he could be saved—just that she had to try. But it was too late.

The shot rang in the air, a loud thunder that made her jerk, and Kevin crumpled to the ground. Slowly, Sarah fell to her knees, tears pouring from her eyes. Why was she alive? Why? Would this demon come for her later? Was he taunting her? Why was she alive? She looked at her mother’s pale face, and rocked back and forth. Why couldn’t it be her and not her mother? Her gaze went to her father, and she screamed from the injustice of it all. Screamed until it hurt, until it felt as if her throat bled. Until everything went black.

The nightmare shifted to a hospital room, the smell of medicine lacing her nostrils. She blinked awake and memories flooded her, the pain of loss filling her. God, how it hurt. She’d failed everyone she loved. She’d let the demon take them. Let the demon get inside their world and destroy it from the inside out. Why hadn’t she sensed it? Why? Had Kevin ever been their friend? Or had he always been possessed, a part of that demon? Tears spilled from her eyes, tears so full of self-hatred, they burned her cheeks. She wanted to destroy that demon one moment; the next, she wanted to die. She shivered, cold, alone, empty—so very empty.

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