Faith and Damnation (Fall of the Lightbringer Book 2) by Katerina Martinez

Author:Katerina Martinez [Martinez, Katerina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Supernal Publishing
Published: 2024-02-25T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

ABADDON

The upcoming battle weighed on me. Helena’s people were not ready, and likely would not be ready. My people were still injured, and while some had recovered enough to join us in the confrontation against Medrion, the majority would not.

If our defenses fell, those angels would be killed in the recovery beds where they lay. Dealing with these thoughts, these worries, was not easy. When I was the leader of the Ebon Legion, we had a fortress. A Bastion of our own. We were feared, respected, known for our strength.

But here we were, routed and scattered, our backs broken.

I should have been there.

I had underestimated Medrion; I had not expected him to attack so quickly after his defeat at Meridian. The lives lost fell on my conscience, and I would not make that mistake a second time. Helena’s angels were strong, but they could not fathom the monstrous force that made its way closer with each passing moment. They were naïve, and likely it would get them all killed.

This time Medrion would not escape. He had taken everything from me, and left me destitute—an unwelcome, barely tolerated, refugee. I was under no illusions; Sarakiel was the only reason I was not still caged up in Helena’s cells, awaiting Medrion’s inevitable arrival like an animal to slaughter.

When I found him, when I had my moment with him, I would not offer him a swift, painless, or honorable death; and if it led me to damnation, then so be it.

Lost in dreams of vengeance and murder, I had not noticed Sarakiel’s arrival on the battlements. Something in the way she looked at me made me feel shame, as if her eyes were boring into my soul and seeing it for the barren and rotten place it truly was.

But she smiled as she approached, instantly silencing my darker thoughts.

“Long day,” she said, her pink hair whipping with the wind, the gust ruffling the feathers in her white wings.

I turned to look at her. Nodded. “Indeed,” I said.

She stood by me, leaning against the parapet edge and casting her eyes across the horizon. Night had fallen, and the sky was full of stars. Millions of them, as far as the eye could see. It was a beautiful tapestry of flickering light, and color, and wonder.

But it paled in comparison to what I saw in her.

“Can I ask you a question?” she asked.

My defenses went up. I could feel my skin prickling, my jaw tensing. “Proceed…”

“Are you…ok?”

I was surprised, and she must have noted the confusion as she continued without waiting for the response.

“Ever since you got here, you’ve been different,” she ventured.

“How so?”

“Well, I don’t know how to describe it, but you seem a little less rough.”

“Rough,” I paused. “I appear less rough to you?”

She shook her head. “You’ve been through a lot. The last few days can’t have been easy… and I guess I expected you to just fly off and leave us to our doom while you went looking for revenge.”

“When I arrived, you had nothing but contempt for my presence.

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