Death Crowned: An Urban Fantasy Series (Modern Necromancy Book 3) by Justin Sloan & Michael La Ronn

Author:Justin Sloan & Michael La Ronn [Sloan, Justin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elder Tree Press
Published: 2017-02-15T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12: Citizen's Arrest

Rohan and Nora rode in silence in the back of the pickup. It was a long drive to the police station, but when they arrived, several spirits hung in the air in the parking lot and followed the truck as it pulled in front of the severe, brown masonry building.

Alby jerked Rohan and Nora out of the truck and led them up the steps to the station at gunpoint.

The front desk clerk, an officer in a blue uniform, looked on with surprise.

“Put your weapons away,” he cried. “Now!”

The men set their weapons on the floor. Alby grabbed Rohan and another man grabbed Nora and pulled them close.

“What’s going on here?” the officer asked.

“Citizen’s arrest, ma’am,” Alby said.

“For what?”

“Manipulatin’ the dead.”

The officer cocked her head at them. Alby told him everything they saw, as the officer listened incredulously.

“We’ve got better things to do than this,” he said. “If you haven’t noticed, the entire city is under attack.”

“You gonna take him or not?” Alby asked.

“I’ll call the sergeant.”

“Tell the cap’n I got someone here named Rohan. Yeah, a man named Alby brought him in, said—”

With a flash of red in his eyes, the cop stumbled back as a spirit entered his body. He looked up, only it wasn’t him—a look of recognition crossed his face and he smiled.

“Ah, Rohan,” came Altemus’s voice. “At last we are together again.”

He pulled his pistol and aimed, but just then the windows shattered inward and two demons flew in, flowing like mists without form, followed by a mass of people breaking through the front doors and following through the shattered windows.

Altemus shot, but the bullet went wild and ricocheted to take down a large man. Cursing, Altemus turned to the demons and said, “Stop it, he’s mine!”

But the demons laughed amid the chaos as cops ran out to fight off the mob.

“Any control you had here is gone, little man,” one of the demons said as he began to form into his demonic being. Tendrils of mist formed long horns, and his demonic partner beside him grew tall, his skin smoking and red.

Meanwhile, the crowd reached Rohan and was trying to claw at him, but he and Nora had managed to push their way back and into one of the cells.

Nora ran back, snatched car keys off Altemus’s belt, and narrowly dodged one of the possessed bodies leaping for her.

Altemus screamed and struck the possessed body in the face, wrestling it to the ground.

Altemus and the demons were fighting, and the crowd had him distracted. But it was not enough to keep their attention for long.

One of the demons turned and spotted Rohan.

“Hurry!” Rohan said, and kicked at one of the mob who had managed to push the cell door back.

“RAGGH!” The demon disappeared, and then with a flash of fire that sent the mob back like an explosion, he was there with Rohan, flaming hands on his lapels so that Rohan felt the skin around his neck sizzling.

He had no idea how he was getting out of this one.

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