Evil's Unlikely Assassin_An Alexis Black Novel by Jenn Windrow

Author:Jenn Windrow [Windrow, Jenn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Irreverent Publishing
Published: 2018-07-10T16:00:00+00:00

He killed my wife.

Those four words echoed off the concrete walls and assaulted me over and over again. Those four words told me more about Reaper than anything he’d said in the past two years. Those four words made me look at the man who knelt on the ground with his head buried in his hands in a whole different light.

As long as I’ve known him, I’ve never seen a hint of emotion, unless you counted pissed off. He was stoic, straight-faced, serious. But not at this moment. At this moment he was broken.

He fell farther to the ground, as if his legs couldn’t support the weight his past piled on his shoulders. I reached down and wrapped my hand around his thick bicep intending to help him up. Reaper’s hand closed over mine and he squeezed. At first I thought it was out of kindness, but his fingers squeezed harder, then he pried my fingers off his shoulder and shoved my hand away.

“Don’t touch me.” His words filled with hatred. His eyes radiated with it too.

Hatred for me. Hatred for vampires. Hatred for anything that didn’t fit his idea of normal.

It didn’t intimidate me. I had hatred in spades.

I put both hands up in the air and backed up one step.

I’m not sure who Reaper saw at the moment, but it wasn’t his partner of the past two years. Right now I was the cause of all his misery, loneliness, and despair.

I was the enemy.

Speaking of enemies, we also had an angry pack of werewolves on our tail, so staying out in the open wasn’t the wisest idea. I needed to get Reaper to follow me farther into the shelter of the abandoned buildings that surrounded us.

The steps I took were slow and deliberate, coaxing him to follow me, come and get me, anything to get him out of the way of the real danger that was surely stalking us.

We entered the shadows and Reaper closed the distance between us. He grabbed the front of my shirt and pulled me close. The other hand wrapped around my hair and wrenched my head back, exposing my neck. Vulnerable.

A growl escaped my throat, a warning Reaper wouldn’t heed.

“There’s who I was looking for. The part of you that can’t pretend to be human.” He pushed me away and I stumbled.

“Alexis?” Nathan called from the sideline.

I held up one finger to stop him before he came over. If Reaper wanted to play, heaven help him. All I could promise is I’d do whatever it took to make sure he came out of the fight alive.

A roll of my shoulders, a crack of my knuckles, a toss of my long braid over my shoulder, and I was ready. I winked at my opponent.

A war cry was the only warning of his imminent attack. Reaper rushed forward. Full speed. I stood my ground and waited. Anticipated. Looked forward to it. We met head on and collided in a flurry of fists, flesh, and frustration.

He kicked at my stomach, I blocked it with my hand, not paying attention to the fist aimed at my face.

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