Demon Ensnared by Jenn Stark

Author:Jenn Stark [Stark, Jenn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781943768554
Publisher: Elewyn Publishing
Published: 2019-11-11T18:30:00+00:00

15

Gregori leaned against the shiny black metal of the military-grade SUV and peered thoughtfully at the men with rifles who guarded the entrance to the demonstration area. He’d heard the shots and shouts of the first round of attackers rushing through the forest. They all had. But he’d heard something more too.

A plea.

It was faint, uncertain, as if the cry was coming from someone trying to fight their way through a fog, but it was there. Too diffuse for him to get a fix on without really focusing, and it didn’t last. Had he imagined it?

He glanced over to the far edge of the security details, where a long, sleekly muscled man lounged against a tree, his aviator shades masking his features and his face schooled into a permanent half grin. The demon enforcer Hugh eyed him right back, then lifted one shoulder. Maybe, maybe not. He’d heard something too, but it’d been too faint to constitute a true cry for help the first time around. The afternoon wasn’t over yet, however.

There was a buzz of activity toward the gates, and the men stood aside as a new vehicle approached, this one a heavily armored van. Gregori heard the term “hostage” and watched with interest as the vehicle trundled past the checkpoint and toward the demonstration area. Something shifted at his side, and he glanced over to see that Hugh had abandoned his position by the tree to draw closer.

“They do keep things interesting, don’t they?”

Gregori grunted. God’s children never found themselves short of ways to perpetrate atrocities against themselves. As a Syx, Gregori had waded into more than his fair share of battlegrounds, which were homing beacons for the worst of the horde. Even demons who’d been doing a good job keeping to the shadows for millennia were tempted by the siren call of gunfire, the scent of blood. They were creatures enslaved by chaos and pain—of course the battleground would draw them.

But what would draw them here?

“You sense it, I assume?” Hugh drawled, and Gregori nodded. They both shifted slightly to the side, drawing even with the trucks. No one was watching them, and this area wasn’t under surveillance. The only cameras were at the checkpoints into the demonstration area and the one where they’d exited the main road to head to this facility. “This place is crawling with demons.”

“They’re trapped,” Gregori agreed.

“Ayup. Couldn’t happen to a nicer group.”

“It shouldn’t be happening at all.”

Hugh had nothing to say to that, because of course, Gregori was right. Tech or no tech, demons couldn’t be controlled by any humans other than witches, and even then only within a very limited set of parameters. They also couldn’t be truly harmed or killed by humans other than members of an elite group of human-angel hybrids known as Nephilim. The American military was undeniably impressive, but Gregori was pretty sure they didn’t house any Nephilim in their ranks.

Witches, however…

Gregori filled Hugh in on the information he’d gleaned from the Arcana Council, and the typically laconic demon stiffened further with every word.

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