Daughter of Gods and Shadows by Jayde Brooks

Author:Jayde Brooks [Brooks, Jayde]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781250036735
Google: XP82BAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00LRWXCC8
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2015-02-03T00:00:00+00:00

FIGHT THE POWER

“We don’t have time for this,” Khale snapped at Prophet after Eden stormed away. “I’m sick and tired of coddling that girl. The hope of this civilization is pinned to her, and all she can do is whine and throw tantrums about it.” She folded her arms across her chest. “If it weren’t for the fact that she’d survived that first bond, I would question if she truly was Mkombozi. She never acted like this.”

“Yes she did, Khale.”

The Shifter had selective memories of Mkombozi. He needed to remind her of that.

“She acted just like this.”

She looked at him as if he’d just told her that Mkombozi had had three heads. “She was afraid, Tukufu,” she said, forcing herself to calm down. “But she knew what she had to do, and she did it.”

“Mkombozi knew her role, she played it, but she was as afraid as Eden is now,” he explained. “The only difference was that Mkombozi loved you.” He decided to leave it at that.

“This should not be my fate, Tukufu, my responsibility. It is too much,” Mkombozi said, crying after she had bonded with the first Omen.

It was late, and he woke up to find her sitting on the side of the bed, unable to sleep. Prophet reached out to her, but she shrugged away.

“I am my mother’s general, and I am proud of that. I will lay down my life for her without hesitation.”

He sat up in bed. “She knows that, Mkombozi. You are a great warrior.”

She shook her head. “I am a coward.” She argued. “I am afraid of this thing inside me, and I am afraid that I could be consumed by it.”

“No. No, that’s not going to happen,” he said, reassuring her. “You’re too strong for that. You’ll use the Omen, all of the Omen, to defeat the Demon and then…”

She turned to him. “And then? The bond is eternal, Tukufu. Once a bond has been made, it cannot be broken.” Tears streamed down her face. “I do not want this. I do not want to lose myself to this but I fear that I will. What will happen then?”

“She was as afraid as Eden after that first bond, Khale.”

“You need to show Eden the truth of what’s happening in her world, Guardian,” Khale challenged. “Turn on the news and make her watch. Power up the Internet and let her see the destruction that’s already begun here. Hiding her away from it won’t make it go away, because eventually that devastation will bring itself to your doors.”

If Khale wanted to believe that he was keeping Eden secluded here for her benefit, then let her believe it. The truth was, he had been keeping her here, away from the distraction of everything going on around them, for his own selfish reasons. It was a fantasy he had had and lost when he first made his oath to Mkombozi, a fantasy that included just the two of them, alone.

Khale turned to face him and stretched out her T-shirt for him to read.

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