Dealer's Will by Liz Cain

Author:Liz Cain [Liz Cain]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Liz Cain
Published: 2023-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

“Me?” I squeaked, stumbling as I took a step back and nearly fell off the bank. Alaric gestured and an invisible force pushed me forward and stopped me falling into the river. I couldn’t help but stagger into Alaric and grab his arms as he caught me. I looked up slowly, captivated by his depthless eyes, the brown in them so dark I could barely tell where his pupils were.

“I’ve been waiting for you for a long time, Morgan.” He reached up to cup my face.

I pushed him, managing to step away from the river and past him.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” I told him, wrapping my arms around myself.

“Your father made a deal with me. That on your twentieth birthday you would be mine.” He took out a pocket watch and then looked up at me. “Tick tock.”

Realization crashed into me; this was the demon. The one Henrick had told me about. It was as if our conversation had called him into my life. “That can’t be true,” I cried, a lump stuck in my throat the size of a boulder and I shook my head.

“You’re right, my dear, I cannot lie to you.” He sighed. “Your father did make a deal. I had his blessing to ask for your hand in marriage when you reached twenty, but the choice to be mine would be entirely yours. I didn’t expect you to marry so young…though I’m not surprised someone snapped you up.”

“Why would you want me?”

He grinned at me. “Why would I not? A powerful siren such as yourself and an elemental as a bonus.”

“What are you talking about?” I ground out.

“Oh, my dear,” Alaric purred. “You haven’t even reached a fraction of your potential and you will have hundreds of years to do so. You need to let go of your silly mortal and join me.”

My mind was in chaos. “What deal did my father make? Hundreds of years?”

“To be the most successful hunter there is and yes, hundreds of years. Sirens are long-lived, not quite immortal but long enough.”

“He wasn’t a hunter, he was a carpenter.” I ignored what he’d said about me living a long life. It was the first time I’d heard of it. Why hadn’t my mother told me any of this?

“That was his problem. I granted him his wish and he joined the hunters, for one hunt. In that hunt he managed to kill more than any other hunter, making him the most successful at the time.”

I pushed away the sick realization that my father had been a hunter of the supernatural. He had hunted people like me. He couldn’t have known he was married to one. Anger boiled up inside me.

“But he died,” I screamed at Alaric. My mother had warned me about how deals with a demon worked. She had been right; they twisted it to their advantage.

“But he was still successful.” Alaric examined his nails. “It wasn’t my fault that the men he was with didn’t trust him.

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