Demon Apathy: Sunderverse (Demon Hunter Book 2) by Ingrid Seymour

Author:Ingrid Seymour [Seymour, Ingrid]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PenDreams
Published: 2021-12-09T05:00:00+00:00

22

We reappeared somewhere unexpected. I glanced up at the early morning sky, the sun barely peeking over the horizon. Pastel colors blended through the clouds like in some sort of whimsical painting. There was grass under my feet, and the wide Mississippi River stretched before me, East St. Louis sprawling on the other side of it.

Slowly I turned and glanced up. The Gateway Arch loomed right above me, offering me a sight I hadn’t seen in many years—at least not from this angle.

“Why are we here?” I asked as I appreciated the quiet of the morning. It was too early for the riverboats to be out, filling the air with the stench of their exhaust. Or for the tourists to be meddling about, taking pictures, and admiring the monument.

Drevan shrugged in answer to my question as he sat on the grass, looking glorious even in pink. “It’s nice out.” He bent his knees and rested his arms on top of them.

It really was nice, and I was in no hurry to get back to New York. It felt comfortable being home with him, even if I was still a bit mad at him for risking his life.

We sat in silence for a long moment, watching the river’s brown waters flow past. At last, he angled his body slightly to face me. A strand of my hair had gotten loose and was fluttering under my nose. Drevan smiled and pushed it out of the way, tucking it behind my ear.

“Thank you,” he said.

“For what?”

“Bringing me here to save me.”

I shook my head. “You brought yourself here.”

“You allowed it. If you had said no, I would’ve understood if you'd decided not to involve your family.”

“But you knew I would say yes. You made sure Dani knew what to do.” He had put that book in my sister’s path because he’d expected something like this to happen. I didn’t know how to feel about that.

“It was a gamble. Your sister is a very talented healer. I knew she would master the skill. What I didn’t know was how you would react if the need arose.”

“You think I would let you die?”

He sighed. “In my experience, the demon is always expendable. When you’re assumed to be inherently bad, people tend to say good riddance.” That beautiful light had returned to his eyes and seemed enhanced by the sunlight peeking through the clouds.

I ached to reach out and touch him, tell him how I felt about him, to let him know that if he died, I would die too. But I could never tell him those things, so I just turned away and lay on the grass, arms crossed under my head, my interlaced hands serving as pillows.

“I couldn’t have you die—not when the world depends on us,” I said, using a casual tone.

“Father would have simply replaced me.”

“What?!” My head snapped in his direction.

“I have no shortage of siblings. I’m the oldest, but far from the only one.”

My mind staggered with the information. No wonder he felt expendable.

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