Divine Uprising by Dyken Rachel van

Author:Dyken, Rachel van [Dyken, Rachel van]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Vampires, Young Adult
Goodreads: 18038658
Publisher: Astraea Press
Published: 2013-06-03T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

We walked for three hours. Seth and Icarus talked like they were long lost lovers, and Adonis literally grabbed me each time I tripped on a rock or the snow. I was ready to fight him just to keep him from freaking out on me anymore, but then again last time we fought, I almost lost. Wow. That was a hard pill to swallow.

The only good news during the long walk was that I didn’t have any more odd visions or singing… which made me wonder all the more why it had been affecting me so much before and not as much now? Though the haunting melody was familiar to me, I hadn’t heard the siren’s voice since Seattle.

“Thena?” Adonis grabbed my arm again, and that time I let him. I hadn’t realized how high we were getting until then. Did everything have to do with going down and up? I clenched my teeth and leaned on Adonis.

“Thanks,” I mumbled, knowing I sounded super distracted, but I couldn’t help it. Something felt off. The general direction we were traveling was toward the top of the mountain, but the closer we got, the harder it was for me to concentrate on any one thing. It didn’t help that as we got closer, it grew hotter. Not that temperature really bothered me, but it was strange. Shouldn’t it get colder as you get higher?

“You feel it too,” Adonis whispered.

At my nod he tensed. I looked around. Seth and Icarus were still ahead of us. Seth looked somewhat out of sorts. His coloring was paler than usual. Dark shadows were visible beneath his eyes. As if he knew I was staring at him he turned to look at me, and suddenly my steps froze.

Something hit me across the head, and within an instant Seth was breathing down my neck.

“Nobody can hear you scream.” His voice was hoarse as if he had just swallowed fire and couldn’t quite form words. “I want to taste you. Now.”

His tongue moved across my lips, black flashed in his eyes, and he began to suck energy from me. I tried to speak. Suddenly a flash of light appeared in front of us. A fiery sword appeared in Adonis’s hand. The same sword I’d seen for years on the archangels.

“Be gone, demon!” Adonis yelled as he pushed Seth against a tree.

Icarus began to laugh as he grew another two feet. He pulled out a black sword made of steel. His metal clashed against Adonis’s. Sparks flew between the swords. Seth screamed and was on his feet again, running toward me. Why couldn’t I move? Why couldn’t I fight?

“Because you don’t want to,” Seth whispered behind my hair as his hand came to grip my neck. “Because deep down you’re exactly like us.”

I tried to shake my head.

A tear ran down my cheek as I watched Adonis fall, and then his eyes met mine. “I’m sorry, Athena, so sorry.”

He was going to die.

I was going to have to watch my best friend, the man that I loved, die in front of me.

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