Demon Sworn (Darkest Flames Book 3) by Katie May & Ann Denton

Author:Katie May & Ann Denton [May, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Expresso Publishing, LLC
Published: 2021-02-18T16:00:00+00:00

16

Katrina

The water in the shower stings my skin.

It’s probably too hot, steam wafting from the steady flow, but I can’t bring myself to turn the dial down. It’s sick and twisted and fucked up, but…I enjoy the pain at the moment. The sensation of watching my skin turn a flushed red as I lose myself to the heat.

I close my eyes as the warmth blazes through me, bringing my hands up to scrub shampoo through my pink hair. It’s getting too long, in desperate need of a cut, but I still love the color. Maybe at some point I’ll dye it again. Purple like Lucy’s? Maybe blue? Green? I try to picture myself with green hair but quickly decide that green is not my color.

Almost rhythmically, I scratch my scalp with my fingernails as my mind wanders.

It’s actually a horrible feeling, like you’re venturing through a wasteland riddled with bear traps and explosives. One wrong move, and you’ll explode into thousands of pieces, nothing but a splash of deteriorating bones and rapidly drying blood.

Because a person’s mind? It’s a scary place, especially when said person has endured the shit I have.

Adam…

I swear I can hear him laughing at something Akor says while Zolroth reprimands him. My materialism demon has been trying to convince him to wear a suit, because that’s exactly what every four-year-old wants. Though I have to admit, it’ll be freaking adorable to see Adam in an immaculately pressed brown suit and dark red tie.

The smile slides from my face, and my pulse races, the sloshing of blood in my ears loud and deafening.

We still don’t know what happened to him, and I’m beginning to think we never will. My demons truly believe he wasn’t physically hurt, but psychologically? That’s a completely different story.

And I still have to tell him that our parents are dead. They may not have been perfect, but they were ours. Mom and Dad. Two words Adam will never be able to say sincerely again.

All of this is related. I just fucking know it. It’s too much of a coincidence that the attacks on my guys started after they found me, after they came into my life like dark princes on steeds of death and destruction. This world is nothing if not a dangerous, intricate spider web. The second you become trapped in its binding, it’s impossible to free yourself before the spider comes and eats you.

But I refuse to be eaten.

I refuse to give in.

Maybe…

Maybe the demons finding me was the trigger. The catalyst, you could say, that spurred the bad guy into making his move.

But why?

I rake my fingers through my soapy hair, pausing when they catch on a snarl, before sighing and grabbing a bottle of soap. One smell confirms that it’s the same one Zolroth uses. I like that—smelling like my man, I mean. It fills me with a primal, possessive feeling that’s entirely foreign but not unwelcome.

Okay, Katrina. So you think your appearance in the demons’ lives is what started all of this.

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