Dark Around the Edges: Possession (Cambion) by Z Cari

Author:Z, Cari [Z, Cari]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781627570237
Publisher: Storm Moon Press LLC
Published: 2013-07-10T22:00:00+00:00

Cressidus lounged on top of the cages, her bare feet dangling over the edge and swaying back and forth in front of the grate. The demon had abandoned Cassandra's tall black high heels, and from this angle, Devon could see that her toenails were painted a pale, luminous pink. The skin on the bottoms of her feet were ripped up here and there, evidence of a fairly difficult walk, but none of the wounds bled. Of course not. Demons didn't bleed. Especially not demons riding around in corpses.

Cressidus didn't say anything, just sat and waited in silence, but the tension in the air was still oppressive. Devon could hear Mei quivering in the cage next to him and knew Cressidus could hear it, too, and didn't care. The demon didn't care that one of its children was dead, it didn't care that another was distressed, and it didn't seem to care who would be the next to die. Demons were capricious, for all that they occasionally took the long view, and Devon wasn't surprised to find that he was just as disposable as anyone else. He couldn't trust anything Cressidus told him. He couldn't trust that she wouldn't kill Rio as soon as he arrived here—and he was coming, damn it, of course he was coming. He'd be here, he'd save Devon... Devon just wished it wasn't necessary. He wished he didn't keep falling into the damsel in distress role when it came to their rescues. Just once, he'd like to be the one to rescue Rio instead.

Focus. Devon needed to prepare himself; he knew he was going to be fighting soon. Hand to hand combat wasn't his greatest skill, not by a long shot, but a fight between cambions was more about whose allure could get the upper hand. Devon had been forced to do it a few times when he was younger, and he'd only improved his abilities since then. He was confident he could handle whatever Shan threw his way.

Sure about that? Mei came close to kicking your ass. So powerful... but Devon had been exploiting other people's power for a long, long time. He wasn't about to forget how.

Devon heard a distant door open and shut. Footsteps grew louder and louder as the new arrival came closer, stopping on the other side of the cages. Devon glanced down through the grate at his feet, but he was in a poor position to see anything.

"Dou zhun bei hao le ma?" Cressidus said, speaking in Mandarin, of course. Devon didn't know exactly what she was saying, but the tone indicated impatience.

"Shi de, fu qin."

"Hen hao. Jin wan hai you yi ge chai shi gei ni. It's a job that I think you will enjoy." Cressidus bent over so that she could look through the grate. "At least one of you will enjoy it, in the end." She sat up straight again, out of Devon's line of sight. "Go and get the keystone, Shan. I think it's time to get things started.

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