Deliverance from Sin: A Demonic Paranormal Romance (Sinners & Saints Book 5) by Rosalie Stanton

Author:Rosalie Stanton [Stanton, Rosalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781945074202
Publisher: Dominic & Stanton
Published: 2018-09-17T16:00:00+00:00

16

Varina didn’t realize how attuned she’d become to Campbell’s signature until he left. The way the air dropped, combined with the subtle sound of the front door closing told her everything she needed to know.

That didn’t explain why she’d immediately paused what she was doing and rushed across the hall. She reached the window just in time to see the mustard-colored Olds disappear under the blanket of live oaks.

Varina had stood at the window for a long moment, her mind racing and her heart at a loss.

He’d done this yesterday—taken off without notice, and he’d come back later with supplies. Domestic supplies, of which they were fully stocked.

Yesterday, she hadn’t been bothered by his sudden disappearance. But that had been…well, before.

Before what, though, she couldn’t say. A day couldn’t do much to change things—change took time. The change that mattered, anyway. The change that had the ability to impact one’s life. It didn’t happen overnight.

Only she felt connected to him now. And connections were dangerous.

He was dangerous.

That realization was humbling, and sent Varina spiraling into a foul mood. She’d stomped back to the room across the hall and dived into boxes of her father’s belongings, which didn’t do anything to improve said mood. With precisely jack shit to go on, the task that had seemed simple on its face had become insurmountable. Her father could never do things the easy way. No clear-cut message in his will, no hint, no nothing.

Estranged they had been, but Varina couldn’t fathom how her father wouldn’t recognize the depth of what he asked. Returning to Mount Zion alone had been on her list of never gonna happen. To do so without a tangible goal…

Well, she supposed he’d won in the end. She was here, wasn’t she? Giving a man who didn’t deserve it his dying wish.

Her mind, being the helpful asshole it was, called forward the dedication in her father’s book.

To Jules. My light at midnight.

That man—the one who had been devoted to his wife and child—was a different story. That was a man who had let her play on his typewriter, who had welcomed the mess in the study. A man who had chased her around the house as the tickle monster, made her laugh with hand puppets, rolled his voice to imitate the Cowardly Lion.

That man she hadn’t seen since before her mother’s funeral. Since before Julia Jefferson became another victim claimed by leukemia. Because the second Julia began dying, Jenning might as well have gone with her.

Varina let out a shaky breath, choking back tears, resentment.

The other part of her just felt tired and defeated. The day had taken its toll—she had already dedicated hours to wading through memories she’d either repressed or forgotten altogether. Every box she opened was a waltz through time, and every creak in the house whispered a menacing reminder of what lay ahead.

Of what the next minute could bring.

And there were so many of them.

Yet despite how lengthy the silence that surrounded her seemed, it couldn’t

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