Daughter of Ashes: A Mayhem of Magic World Story (A Girl and Her Hellhounds Book 3) by Nicole Zoltack

Author:Nicole Zoltack [Zoltack, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-08T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Christopher heals me before I can do anything at all, before I can say anything, before I can think.

And then he just gives me a look.

“I did something new,” I inform him.

“It’s good to know almost dying is something new for you,” he says.

I glower at him, setting my jaw and narrowing my eyes. “I don’t have to put up with this.”

“I’m glad you unlocked something new, a new ability, yes?”

I nod, my lips in a tight line.

“But you almost died to discover it. That’s what I’m not the happiest about.”

“Your happiness doesn’t matter.” I rub my forehead. I swallow hard and hang my head. My pride has my stomach all in knots, and I don’t want to admit it, but there is something I have to say before all of this gets out of hand. “Despite everything—”

“You aren’t a damsel in distress,” Christopher says, “but you have to admit that some of your choices—”

“I have to gain new abilities to be able to fight Lucifer. We’ve been over this. You know that’s the case, and it will happen. It will! I’ll figure out how to use the power of holy light.”

“Fine. What happened?”

“I’ll show you,” I say smugly.

I hold out my hands and try to conjure the water or the ice or whatever it was that affected the lava monster and helped me to defeat it.

But nothing happens.

Nothing at all.

Christopher shakes his head.

“I’m nervous!” I snap.

“Why would you be nervous? I’m on your side!”

I gape at him. "No, you aren't. Not fully. You hate me, deep down, don't you?"

“How can you say that? I went to Hell not once but twice for you. I saved your life, and I didn’t even get a thank you!”

“I was about to, but you interrupted me!”

“When did I interrupt you?”

“When you cut me off to say I’m not a damsel in distress.”

“You aren’t one.”

“Why? Because I’m not a damsel?” I scowl and cross my arms. I can’t help feeling out of sorts.

“Of course you’re a damsel. You’re a young, unmarried woman.”

“I’m a demoness. I’m the daughter of Lucifer.”

“I thought you renounced him.”

“I’m almost ready to renounce you,” I mutter.

Christopher starts to pace. I feel so out of sorts and selfish that I bend down and pat my thighs. My hellhounds come bounding over to me, and I hug them tightly, but even their presence and closeness can’t get me to feel any better.

The war against Lucifer has been changed to a war for Hell, and Lucifer has changed the game so the war has spread to Hell.

“I’ve done everything I can to try to stop Lucifer. I never thought I could get all of my siblings to band together, but I managed that.”

“Yes, but now the war is… It’s bad, Lydia, and it has all the marks of the apocalypse even though Lucifer won’t survive that. You know about the seals and the bowls and all of that?”

I gulp. I haven’t read the bible, of course not, but I do know some of what’s in it, especially when it comes to the bits about the end of the world.

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