Demon's Mark by Ella Summers

Author:Ella Summers [Summers, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Night Spark Media
Published: 2024-03-29T00:00:00+00:00

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DEMON'S MARK

Even stripped of her armor, Bella continued to attack the gods. A sinister light shone in her eyes. She looked like a woman possessed. She looked like her mind wasn’t here at all. Like she wasn’t in control at all.

Damiel had managed to steal the sword from her, but it didn’t matter. Venom, thick and dark and powerful, pulsed under her pale skin, building up. Singing. Ringing. Thumping. Just like her armor had resonated before.

And that’s when I realized the armor wasn’t the weapon. Bella was. And the armor hadn’t killed those gods. Bella had.

And a lot more people were going to die if I didn’t find a way to snap her out of this…whatever this was. If anyone could get through to Bella, I could. I rose up, running toward her. But my legs didn’t want to work.

Nero caught me as I fell. “Take it easy.”

“I can’t take it easy,” I growled. I was mad, but not at him. At myself. Why couldn’t my stupid body finish healing itself already?

Nero obviously sensed my frustration. “You were hit with an immortal weapon, Leda,” he told me. “You’re lucky to be alive.”

Bella blasted Cadence and Damiel away, then stalked toward the gods.

“I have to stop this,” I muttered. “I have to.”

Bella flicked her hand, and tables flew out of her way, clearing her path to the gods.

“Bella, stop!” I shouted over the thunder of battle. My legs might not be working right now, but my voice was as loud as ever.

Bella spun around to look at me.

“The Bella I know doesn’t hurt people,” I told her. “She heals them.”

Bella snapped her fingers. A swarm of dinner knives shot at me.

Nero pulled me behind the table, and the knives sank into the wood instead of my flesh.

“We need to take her out,” Colonel Fireswift told Nero. “Now.”

“Hey.” I shoved my finger in his face. “You promised to be nice to her.”

“I am being nice.”

“He really believes that,” Nero told me.

I frowned at Colonel Fireswift. “I’m sure he does.”

Colonel Fireswift’s eyes locked with mine. “Killing her is a mercy. If she’s captured alive, things will be much worse for her.”

“Things can’t get worse than dead,” I shot back.

“Of course they can,” he replied as our table caught on fire.

Nero frosted over the flames with his magic.

“Being captured is better than being dead,” I growled at Colonel Fireswift.

“So you can rescue her,” he said drily.

“Yes,” I replied, defiant. “She’s my sister. I know her. Whoever this fiend is, it isn’t Bella.” I shook my head. “She isn’t doing this by choice. So I won’t allow you to kill her. Someone has done this to her. Someone’s controlling her.”

“Leda…”

Colonel Fireswift had never called me by my first name. And, right now, he actually looked like he felt sorry for me. Like he knew Bella was already dead.

No, I wasn’t giving up on her!

“I don’t see a control collar,” I said to Nero. “Maybe whoever is doing this, they are using some other artifact to control her?”

Just like the Guardians had controlled Meda.

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