Fate by Nadine Nightingale

Author:Nadine Nightingale [Nightingale, Nadine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, witches, hunters, demons, Magic, Dark, horror, Paranormal
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2017-12-17T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

Amanda

I should focus on getting Leandro and Melinda away from Clyde’s men. I should plan an escape for them, a rescue mission. Instead, I press my forehead against the cool window of Clyde’s Audi, trying to silence the voice coming from that damn First Grimoire.

Yeah, the book speaks. It calls out to me from the backseat. “You can’t trust men,” it says over and over. “They make you then they break you. They don’t deserve to breathe. They need to perish. All of them.”

I’m a feminist at heart. This, however, isn’t feminism. It’s pure and utter hate, directed at one gender only. And while I had my heart broken before, I fail to understand how bitter one must be to fall into the abyss of such hostility.

“How are you, love?” Clyde keeps asking me every five minutes. I blame the black veins spreading from my hands toward my heart. “Do you need a break?”

A break from life itself would be much appreciated. A break from driving to the location of the next ritual? Not so much. What’s the point? It’s not like I can escape its performance.

“Amanda,” he whispers. “Talk to me.” He bats his thick black lashes, courtesy of his newest vessel—a five foot ten, future rock star—at me. “Please?” The creature is a walking and talking contradiction. One minute, he’s full of wrath and loathing. The next, he acts like the mother I never had. You know, one who actually cares about my well-being.

“I’m fine,” I hiss, unable to keep the loathing I feel for this creature under the blankets. What did he expect? That I’d roll out the red carpet, and drop on my knees to worship him after he showed me that video of Melinda and Leandro? Yeah, not going to happen, pal.

His gaze remains on me. Luckily, he keeps his damn mouth shut.

We drive for hours without exchanging any more words. That doesn’t mean silence rules the fancy car. Quite the contrary. The voice of the book grows louder and louder. At first, the book keeps on repeating its men-hating mantra. But as time passes, it starts to speak to me directly. “Why do you resist me?”

Because you’re a mad bitch who wants to destroy the damn world? A world in which the people I care about live.

“You’re weak, Amanda.” It laughs like a damn hyena. “Look at you. A mighty witch, born of the strongest blood and all you care about is saving a man who despises your very existence.”

Shut up!

“I was in love once, too.”

No fucks are given.

“He was beautiful. Strong and kind, sweet but protective—the perfect man,” she continues. “We were going to give ourselves to each other, tying the everlasting red knot that would bind our lives together forever.”

Let me guess, he stood you up because he realized what a crazy bitch you were?

“No.” The voice thunders through my brain. “He promised me to stay with me for all eternity. Then he found out who I was, the daughter of the Queen of Night, the creature who broke every law between heaven and hell.

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