Darkest Heart by Juliette Cross

Author:Juliette Cross
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entangled, Amara, paranormal, paranormal romance, angels, demons, apocalypse, dystopian, urban fantasy, dragons, battle, war, fight pits, magic, witches, hellhounds
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Amara)
Published: 2018-07-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Dommiel

We stood outside a tavern in the small German village of the Erzgebirge Mountains. The village was cut off from the world and therefore was safer from the ongoing battle of otherworlders. Humans shuffled to and fro, even in the deep snow, all of whom turned a questioning and violent eye toward me and Anya.

Strangely, they didn’t run or ring a bell in the square announcing that monsters had arrived. This was the kind of old village where one might expect a mob to show up with torches and pitchforks.

“Are you sure this is the place?” asked Anya.

I glanced at her guarded expression as she scanned up and down the street. After our third and last round of mind-melting sex, we’d drifted off. When we woke, I’d been quiet, uncomfortable with the shared intimacy. Sex, I could do. Intimacy, I could not. Never had to deal with such a feeling.

Hell, I’d had all-nighters with women before. With more than one woman at a time, truth be told. But sex with Anya had laid me bare. She’d exposed some part of me I’d thought snuffed out with the betrayal from my brother, with my fall from grace, with my sentence of eternal damnation, and finally with being cast out by my own kind. It was easier, safer here in the dark—alone. No risk involved when you flew solo.

And yet, she made me yearn. Made me want. Made me want to sink into her sweet, soft body and cling to her bright, hopeful ideals. It scared the fuck out of me. Which is why today I’d been distant. Cold. She’d noticed. For once, I didn’t know what to do. Didn’t trust myself around her. So I’d focused on the task at hand, bringing us to this far-flung pub on the outskirts of civilization in this picturesque German town that apparently was doing all right because of its isolation.

“This is the one. Axel’s vision was clear.”

“So now what?”

“We go in and sit at a particular booth and hope that tonight the waitress is Nadya’s friend.”

“And if not?”

“We come back again tomorrow.”

“I’ve never met a demon witch.” She looked at me. “Are they dangerous?”

I arched a brow. “Very.”

She exhaled a heavy sigh, her cold breath a white puff in the air. “I suppose she must be cautious this way, but—”

Not for the first time, I noticed her brow pinching together almost in pain.

“But what?”

She glanced at me, wiping her expression blank. “I just want to find Uriel soon.”

“I know you do. Come.”

I opened the door of the tavern, the warm light of lanterns and candles spilling out. As I suspected, we were the only otherworlders in the room, which wasn’t packed but wasn’t empty either. The muffle of voices died at once. Hard-faced men and tight-lipped women watched us enter. I nodded, having made sure my beast was well-hidden, my fangs having receded, my eye a human shade.

I stalked to the far wall and sat in the booth all the way to the left, the one Axel had indicated.

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