Demonfire by Kate Douglas

Author:Kate Douglas
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: American Light Romantic Fiction, Romance - Paranormal, American Science Fiction And Fantasy, Paranormal, Contemporary, Romance, Reporters and Reporting, General, Occult Fiction, Fiction, Demonology, Fiction - Romance
ISBN: 9781420109993
Publisher: Zebra Books
Published: 2010-02-23T05:00:00+00:00

Ed was practically asleep on his feet when they finally reached the library building. “Eddy? Stay with your father, please?” Dax glanced at Ed and back to Eddy, hoping she’d understand.

She nodded. “We’ll wait here.” She called Bumper to her and put the leash back on the dog. “C’mon, Dad. I’m beat. Will you sit with me?”

Ed didn’t say a word, but he didn’t complain when she sat down on a park bench in front of the old library and patted the spot beside her. Eddy set her crowbar on the ground by her feet. Ed leaned his iron pry bar against the seat and sat heavily on the wooden bench.

Eddy glanced over her shoulder and mouthed something to Dax. He wasn’t sure what she said, but the look in her eyes gave him a fresh burst of strength. He realized she’d quickly become the most important thing in his life. The reason he fought. The reason he would continue to fight, no matter how hopeless the battle might seem.

His gaze lingered on Eddy, on the curve of her lips, the line of her jaw, the long sweep of her throat. It required a conscious act of will to turn away, but somehow he found the strength to focus on the job.

How had she become so important to him in such a short time? He shook his head. It didn’t really matter how, only that she had. He realized he was smiling when he and Alton walked across the worn patch of lawn to the front steps of the library.

Dax flashed the beam from the flashlight across the corner pieces. Both platforms were empty. The gargoyle had not yet returned to its resting place. Disappointed but not entirely surprised, Dax flipped the flashlight off. The soft glow of a nearby street lamp illuminated the sidewalk well enough to see.

“What now?” He spoke quietly. There was no need to worry Eddy any further.

Alton stared toward the bench where Eddy and Ed waited. Then he turned and quirked one eyebrow at Dax. “Now I think we go back to Ed’s and rest,” he said. “Tomorrow we need to see where the gargoyle is hiding out when he’s not where he belongs. You said he was here this morning, right?”

“He was, but in daylight the streets are busy, people are around. I couldn’t very well climb up there and engage him in a fight.”

Alton smiled his agreement. “True, but if I’m with you to do a little manipulation of what people see and remember…”

Bumper growled.

“Dax?”

Eddy? Dax turned and raced across the lawn with Alton right behind. Eddy held on to her father’s arm. Both of them stared at a grotesque figure standing not twenty feet away, staring right back at them. It stood perfectly still for a moment longer. Then it seemed to straighten up on bowed legs and made a low, keening sound that raised the hairs on Dax’s arms.

He’d seen the creature in flight and this morning when it was sitting in place on the corner of the library building.

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