Better off Dead Book One by Odette C. Bell

Author:Odette C. Bell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Odette C. Bell

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As I’d already said, I was not the kind to kill – humans, at least. You couldn’t really kill Hell beings. They weren’t technically alive. If the Devil or one of the Generals of the Damned favored them, they would simply gather the dust of their corpse, reignite it, and send them back to Earth.

Still, this guy had absolutely no clue that I wasn’t about to press the trigger.

His eyes widened.

I kept my hand on his lips until I knew for certain that my gag spell had sunk all the way in. Then I finally pulled it back. Immediately, he tried to punch me. There was magic laced along his fist. If I was any judge, it was some kind of temporal spell – either a freezing hex or a slowing down one. If I allowed him to hit me with it, I’d be a sitting duck.

I dodged back at the last moment, grabbed his wrist, twisted it to the side in a practiced move, and then pinned it against his chest.

“Sorry, I don’t have time to play with you,” I hissed. Then I head-butted him. I used enough magic that I knocked him out clean.

Now I had taken down two guards. How many did that leave? Eighteen? Right. I had to look for another way through here.

I stole the guy’s gun and any other relevant weapons he had. He also didn’t have a security pass. That made my heart flutter a little as hope danced through me. What if only the highest level security guards had those? And what if I’d lucked my way to one right at the beginning of this mission without doing a thing?

“Then maybe luck really does exist and the great lady is smiling on me again.”

Watching the security guards, I finally saw my chance, darted out, and looked for a way to get out of here. I soon saw a practically unscalable wall. Why it caught my attention, I didn’t know. But as I ducked past a sweeping torch beam, a tingle escaped through my mouth, telling me it was time to get up and out of this courtyard before more security guards twigged that something was wrong.

Practically unscalable walls weren’t that much of an issue when you had as much magic as me. But they were still fantastic places to get found out. All it would require was one intrepid security guard to slice his beam across it, and the entire mission would fail.

I darted my head up, calculating quickly how long it would take me to scale that thing. At my top speed, considering its height, it would still take about two minutes.

“This is suicide,” I mouthed. I threw myself at it.

I started scaling the wall. I froze as a torch beam suddenly sliced several meters above me. The one thing I could be thankful for was the night was very dark. That meant anything that wasn’t illuminated by the slicing torch beams was shrouded in shadow. I still froze, my heart feeling like it was about to pop.

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