Dark Descent - [Nyx Fortuna 02] by Marlene Perez

Author:Marlene Perez [Marlene Perez]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2013-12-02T06:00:00+00:00

The rest of the day was uneventful. I waited until Wren was in the shower to hide the bead. I taped it to the back of a framed picture of Elizabeth and then put it in my closet. Anyone snooping would assume it was nothing more than a painful reminder of a failed relationship. For good measure, I grabbed the only photo I had of the two of us and stacked it on top of the first photo.

We’d gone to bed when they came for her.

She shook me from sleep. “Nyx, wake up,” she whispered. “There’s someone here.”

“At the door?” I yawned.

“Inside,” she said.

Wide-awake now, I grabbed my athame. “Wraiths?”

“No, demons,” she said.

“Stay here,” I said. “No matter what you hear.”

“I’m coming with you,” she said.

There wasn’t any more time to argue. I stopped and listened. I could hear someone breathing. There was a demon in my living room.

I flicked on the light, hoping it would take her by surprise, but she only smirked at me. She was tall and slim, with shiny black hair.

“You took something that doesn’t belong to you,” she said. “The goddess wants it back.”

“Wren doesn’t belong to anybody,” I said.

“I’m not going with you, Antara,” Wren said.

“You know her?” I asked.

“She’s one of Hecate’s personal bodyguards. Martial arts expert,” Wren warned.

Antara’s skills soon became evident. She punched me so hard that my ears rang. I feinted and slashed out with my athame, but she kicked it out of my hand effortlessly.

She hit me hard and I skidded and fell. She was on top of me within seconds. She grabbed a handful of my hair and bashed my head against the kitchen floor tile.

“Hey, I want to get my deposit back when I leave,” I said as my blood splattered all over the white tiles.

“I wouldn’t worry about it if I were you,” Antara grunted.

That was the last thing she said, because Wren grabbed Antara by her hair, exposing her neck, and sliced clean through it with the kitchen knife I’d used to chop the salad I’d made for dinner.

Drops of demon blood fell on my bare chest and scalded it. I shoved the demon’s dead body off me, careful to avoid as much of her blood as I could.

“Now your mom’s going to be really pissed,” I said.

Wren looked at me. Her brown eyes had turned amber and her gaze was unfocused, like she was somewhere far away.

“Are you okay?”

“I’ve never killed anyone before,” she said. “I find it quite…” But I never found out how she found it, because she pitched forward in a dead faint.

I carried her to the couch and then went to the sink to wet a cloth. I dabbed her face and wrists. Her eyelids fluttered open, and she sat up. “What happened?”

“You fainted,” I said.

She was all big eyes and trembling lips. Her gaze went to Antara’s body, which I’d left lying on the floor. I cursed myself for being an idiot.

“Why don’t you go back to bed,” I said.

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