Endless Terrors by K.J. Sutton

Author:K.J. Sutton [Sutton, K.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781804944882
Publisher: Cornerstone
Published: 2023-11-15T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Days passed.

I spent most of my time in Lucifer’s library, trying to make sense of the texts. Some of them were in Enochian, but most were written in languages I’d never seen before. There were also books filled with Spanish, Arabic, and Chinese, but I couldn’t exactly read those, either. I was looking for any references to rain, or any images of water falling from the sky.

And if I happened to come across a super-helpful passage about how to kill the devil, well, bully for me.

Lucifer, it turned out, was a gracious host. He extended breakfast and dinner invitations. His staff cleaned and restocked my room daily. When he wasn’t in a meeting or on a call, he offered to play games or go for a walk. I rebuffed most of his efforts. I acted like I was just running out the clock. I pretended to be bored, or annoyed, or outright hostile. But all the while, hour after hour, I couldn’t escape the terror. It had started as a seed, and every time I thought about the reality of my situation, it grew.

I was in Hell without any way out, and I was powerless.

How would it affect my Court, being connected to me, lending strength to me, for an indefinite amount of time? Would my body eventually weaken and deteriorate, like Damon’s? What if it killed my Court members instead?

I had no answers, no solutions, and no one to ask. And that was why I’d basically moved into the library.

One morning, I leaned over my usual table, brows furrowed in concentration. An atlas rested in front of me. Much like everything else here, it was vastly different from what I knew. I couldn’t figure out what the lines were supposed to represent—borders? coastlines? rivers?—and the writing was in one of the languages I’d never seen before. From the reading I’d done these past few days, I had begun to suspect there were as many species of demon as there were Fallen, and they’d created their own dialects.

But I didn’t care about demons or how they spent their eternity here. I’d been staring at this atlas in hopes of learning more about Hell’s regions. Lucifer couldn’t be trusted, and he might have lied about the rain. It was a big world with a lot of resources. There had to be different biomes, right?

I became rough in my desperation, and I turned the page so hard it made a snapping sound. Thankfully, the paper was thick and coarse, and it didn’t tear. I let out a breath of relief before I refocused, a tide of hope rising inside me. It sank right back down when I saw the page.

This map was even more confusing than the last one.

A blaze of frustration roared through me. Suddenly I wanted to push the table over and stomp on the atlas until it ripped and broke apart. I wrapped my fingers around the table’s edge, battling myself. Trying to breathe through the fear that my anger was really masking.

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