Furious Fire: Grimm's Circle, Book 8 by Shiloh Walker

Author:Shiloh Walker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: angels;demons;reunited lovers;past lives
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2014-11-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

It cut me, like a blade. For one moment, he stared at me and I felt a connection that reverberated all the way down to my soul.

In the next moment, as though all the light in him had been eradicated, his features became shuttered and the fiery gold of his eyes became cold.

It hurt.

I couldn’t remember a time in my life—this time or the others—when I felt so thoroughly rejected.

I tried to console myself with the plain and simple truth that he likely didn’t know me. I looked nothing like the girl he’d known—and in truth, I really wasn’t her. There were bits and pieces of her in me, but each life I’d lived had twisted, fractured, then remade the parts of me.

I was a far cry from that girl.

Then…he’d called me Becky. Another fragment of memory came free and I remembered. I’d been Rebecca and he’d been all I’d ever wanted.

At least that much hadn’t changed.

But everything else had.

I wasn’t her anymore.

I was too hard.

I’d seen too much.

I knew too much.

Still, I remembered…and even now, more and more memories broke free. The sound of his voice, teasing me as we raced our horses. Indistinct echoes of another voice, just as teasing—

That face twisted away, out of my grasp before I could lock onto it.

A headache pulsed, making my brain pound with brutal intensity inside my skull. Nausea twisted at me and I let the memories go. If I kept pushing, it wouldn’t help and I couldn’t afford to lose myself any more than I already had.

Dully, I heard voices—one cool, almost icy. Then his, hard, harsh, angry. I shivered at the sound of it. He was close. So close.

So was a demon. The oil-slick, foul feel of it stained the air, cloyed my lungs.

It felt like too many pieces were falling into place. He was here. A demon was here. Did that mean it was time?

Part of me braced for it.

No, I didn’t feel like dancing on the side of a mountain with happiness, but for those few, brief moments as I’d looked at him, I had felt…something. He’d looked at me and I could have sworn he’d felt it too.

It was better than nothing. I still wished for that moment of peace I’d come to expect, but it eluded me.

It might not be time yet, but I wasn’t going to bet on anything just then.

One thing was for certain—the demon here wasn’t any threat to me.

As those voices continued to rage, the words still not clicking in my head, I stared at it with a mouth gone dry.

It no longer looked remotely human. I knew the bodies they took over were human. Something had to happen inside them, over time, some sort of physiological alteration—I had ideas of a demon X-Men sort of thing…the DNA altering, changing on a cellular level. I don’t know what it was, but something gave them strength beyond what we humans should have.

But maybe I wasn’t a fair judge. I was stronger and faster than just about any human I’d ever come across and I had been all my life.

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