Demon Trouble Too by Terry Spear

Author:Terry Spear [Spear, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Terry Spear

8

Life as a demon hunter was one calculated risk. Hunter always tried to take the least amount of risk in a situation that involved Jared or Alana. Faced with Celeste’s safety also now, he had to really make the right choice this time.

He finally said, “Tarn’s brother was too complacent when he left here.”

“Meaning?” Jared asked.

“He suspects foul play. Pennel never answered his phone. Why not? The demons trying to break into Tarn’s apartment had conveniently disappeared. Where to?” Hunter said.

“So he’s lying in wait for us?” Jared asked.

“Or getting hold of the authorities to report the break-in, and maybe even share his concern with them that Pennel has been injured or taken hostage in his own apartment.”

“By the brute force of an Elantus and Camaran demon?” Jared asked. “He’d be laughed out of the security forces building.”

“He may improvise and say a couple of Matusa had done so. It would seem more likely.”

“So you believe we should open a portal here, return to Baltimore, and chance running into the police?” Jared said.

“Wait!” Alana said, her expression stricken. “I might have killed him!”

Hunter stared at her, uncomprehending.

“I opened the portal at forty stories above street level.”

Everyone gaped at her, then Hunter smiled. “Good, then Pennel shouldn’t be a problem. Too bad we couldn’t have somehow pinned the summoner’s murder on him until we could locate that Matusa.”

Alana rubbed her arms and Hunter noticed the chill bumps on them. He pulled her close. “I know you didn’t mean to do it.”

“He would have killed you and Jared for sure.”

Hunter grunted. “He could have tried.”

“I only meant to get rid of him in the interim.”

“Yeah, well, now we have a new problem. We’ve got to get to the ground floor of this building, then open a portal.”

“I should have thought it out better,” Alana said, sounding miserable.

“Are you upset that you probably killed him?”

“No, not exactly, because it would have come to that eventually, but I should have… known.”

“We all should have considered it. At least you came to the realization well before we used the portal ourselves. Are we all agreed that we try to make it to the first floor and then open the portal?”

“When the warlock, Connor, and I tried to escape Tarn’s place, we used a mattress I levitated until we could reach the ground.”

“No, we’re not going that way. If you could even do such a thing with all of us, by the time we reached the ground, I could see us surrounded by Matusa and security forces.”

She nodded. “We couldn’t leave the apartment any other way. Our only choice was to break out the window.”

That notion gave his heart a jumpstart. He didn’t even want to think of what might have happened if she’d lost her concentration while levitating them to safety.

Celeste moved to the door and looked through the rectangular viewing panel. “Looks clear,” she said. “But I can’t see all the way to the ends of the hall.”

“We don’t have any choice,” Hunter said. “Are we all ready?”

They all nodded in silent agreement, and Hunter opened the door.

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