Encounter with the Devil by Maya Daniels

Author:Maya Daniels [Daniels, Maya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-14T05:00:00+00:00

Helena

I’m so angry at Eric at this moment that I’m finding it hard not to just stab him in the chest and keep going until I have no energy left to lift my arm. Not because he hid from someone that apparently had no intention of harming him, but only because it gets on my nerves that he is tightlipped about everything.

I can tell he is dealing with something internal, this damn place making him act almost depressed and brooding, and I get that. God knows I haven’t talked about all my triggers and issues with him, either. What gets me so angry with him the longer he stays quiet is that it feels like he doesn’t trust me. Or sees me as an outsider in this unusual duo we created. While I look at things as us against them, his behavior says him against everything, including me.

This needs to stop. Like, now.

“I deserved that.” Lifting up, he dusts off his knees.

“No shit you deserved it.” Clutching the dagger, I glare at him. “I’m trying very hard not to stab you right now.”

Watching him fidget and look anywhere else but at me, I don’t notice the dragon moving until a puff of hot, stinking breath ruffles my hair. Jumping away from it, my hand slashes the air by reflex, and the dagger slides through rough scales like they were butter, leaving scratches on my knuckles. I get tackled to the side, my hip and shoulder hitting the unforgiving ground and shooting a sharp pain that rattles my teeth just as a blast of fire bursts in the spot I was occupying a second ago. An earsplitting roar follows the flames leaving me deaf to anything else but the blood pounding in my ears.

“Holy shit!” I can’t hear myself, but Eric flinches, which tells me I must’ve shouted the words right in his ear. His limbs are tangled with mine on the ground.

Shoving my shoulder in his chest, I roll us around so that I’m on top of him. His fingers are wrapped around my wrist, keeping my hand still holding the dagger away. I can’t hear a thing, so I sit straddling Eric’s chest, watching Lucifer and Beelzebub talk animatedly to the dragon. Leviathan’s head is swiveling angrily, black blood dripping from his snout to the reddish dust at his feet. That’s one nasty gash I made at the center of his nose, splitting the scales right between the two large nostrils that keep flaring from his fury.

My heart is still jackhammering in my chest, slowing down slowly with each stroke of Eric’s hands on my thighs. Panting, I look down at him, no doubt my eyes wide enough to look like they’re about to pop out of their sockets. I watch his lips move to form the word breathe, so I follow the advice. Sounds trickle to my ears, getting louder with each word spoken.

“Shift.” The distorted voice of Lucifer turns my head his way.

Red light bursts around the dragon, searing my retinas.

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