Fated to Return (The Death Eater Series Book 3) by Catherine Stovall

Author:Catherine Stovall [Stovall, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Crushing Hearts and Black Butterfly Publishing
Published: 2015-03-12T04:00:00+00:00

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Zane watched the taillights disappear into the night. Exhaustion tugged at his muscles and muddled his mind, but hunger sharpened his basic instincts. He turned, a feral smile spreading his lips as he fought to reign in the monster within.

“Rise, you bastard, rise up and take your kill. I shall give you a death, but this will be done as I wish it to be.”

He stalked across the grass, his eyes on the window, the demon clawing its way up from the darkened hole. The woman stood, still silhouetted by the light, looking very much like an angel with her soft halo of white hair. When he drew near enough to see her eyes, they were wide, but not with fear. The lady recognized the answer to her desires to be rid of a body that was failing her. Zane thought of Gerald’s wife as the window opened and she beckoned him inside.

“Are you the angel of death?”

“No, ma’am. Though, I do come to offer relief.” Despite his efforts, the demon leeched into Zane’s voice. She pulled back, the first signs of regret and fear etching across her expression, but he held her arm. “What I am is not something good, but your death will save a life tonight. An innocent with years still left to experience will not fall. I will be gentle.”

As he leaned in and placed a gentle kiss upon her soft, powdered cheek, she sighed. “I am ready. All the people I’ve known are gone. I am all alone. The woman God has forgotten.”

“He did not forget you. I don’t know your name. Forgive me, what is your name?”

“Elizabeth Connor.”

“Elizabeth Connor, God did not forget you, he saved you for this. He knew you were strong enough to be the woman who called death to her window.”

“Then let’s be done with this. I want to go home.”

Zane unleashed the invisible tether that he had wielded to terrorize his victims in the past. With a gentleness he had not known possible during the rapture of feeding, he touched the woman’s mind. There, he found her memories. Not ugly, horrid things she had done to deserve his kind of sick punishment, but sweet, happy things.

He chose the best of her moments, like a gardener plucking the fullest roses and sweetest daffodils. With careful motions, his hands took hers and led her to the small bed, his mind still sifting through hers as if he were a breeze. She rested her head on the pillow—trusting him completely. A tear crept down her wrinkled cheek, but her brave gray eyes remained on his face, refusing to blink away her last wistful longing for life.

The hunger slammed into him—knocking him to his knees at the bedside. The demon screeched as it tore its way to the surface with tooth and nail. A sudden wave of hatred boiled in his guts. The desire to mutilate and destroy burned his mind.

Zane struggled not to squeeze Elizabeth’s hands. He fought against the want of her pain.

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