Cursed Shadows: An angel demon reverse harem romance series by HP Mallory

Author:HP Mallory [Mallory, HP]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2025-03-19T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

EILISH

The River Of Souls

Shadow Realm

I feel myself sinking into the nothingness of the river. Even though it’s not made of water, I manage to float all the same. It feels like being surrounded by an incredibly strong wind that forces you forward, only this wind speaks and has faces that stare at me, some in shock and some in awe.

Below me, I can feel the souls of the river reaching out and latching onto my feet and legs as they try to pull me under. I try to fight by swimming upward, but their hold is strong and I feel myself yanked downward. And, strangely, it’s hard to breathe.

Even though I’m not drowning, when I try to inhale, the wind burns my lungs and makes me cough. I realize then that it’s not oxygen I’m inhaling—it’s spirit. It’s the essence of the hundreds of thousands of souls that invigorate this river.

Kick, Eilish! The woman’s voice inside of me yells. Kick harder!

I obey, kicking against the hands grabbing my legs and feet as I fight to swim back to the surface. I can’t see the bottom of the river, but whatever is down there is pitch black. The surface of the river is as white as the souls, themselves.

I start to sink deeper as the hands wrap around my legs and yank me downward.

Fight them! the voice screams.

Suddenly, I feel strong arms wrapping around my middle. I crank my head back to see Dragan gripping me, wings extended. They’re flapping madly as he forces himself upward, beating down the souls who wrap their limbs around his just as they do mine. But Dragan’s sheer power is stronger than mine and he’s making headway. That is, until it seems like all the souls in the river converge on him, yanking him down again. He releases me, clearly not wanting to drag me down with him.

But the souls aren’t done with me. Even as they pull and yank at Dragan, they latch onto me and do the same. I kick against them, but my energy is waning. I can’t breathe, and I’m starting to get lightheaded.

***

BARON

I watch Dragan jump into the river and almost immediately, he’s submerged, sucked under the current of souls.

“Son of a bitch,” I grumble as I’m forced to make a decision.

Either I go in after the two of them or I don’t.

Do or don’t.

In general, I don’t get involved. I keep to myself. I like it that way.

I trust no one and no one trusts me. It’s how you keep things clean. It’s how you avoid chaos and drama. It’s the only way I’ve survived for the last one hundred years.

Yet, things are different now. Through Dragan and the others, I’ve been able to open a window into a life I know nothing about. Yes, it’s been difficult to trust and believe everything I’ve been told, but there’s something within me that wants to believe it, all the same.

And if I allow the River of Souls to claim both Eilish and Dragan, there’s more to my story that I’ll never know.

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