Gabriel's Sacrifice (The Scrapman Trilogy Book 2) by Noah Fregger

Author:Noah Fregger
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: T-16 Publishing
Published: 2014-09-18T17:00:00+00:00

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Check Mate

There were people looking to him for protection. How could he convince them they were safe now, after some unseen intruder came in to make a fool out of him? Supernatural or not, the hunter found the outcome to still be the same. It raised doubt. And doubt is dangerous. Better to be feared than doubted.

This would be the perfect time for some degenerate to stage a coup, when others might like to try their luck at a new leader. Talk all they want, no one could do a better job than him. Already he’d taken the necessary precautions. His men were guarding the place in shifts, armed to the teeth, just in case this supposed “bogeyman” felt like returning.

The hunter, himself, brought a whole stockpile of weapons up into his manager’s loft and locked the door. Victoria wished to bed with him that evening, so he’d allowed her entry. As always, he enjoyed her company. She had a way of soothing his mind; and intimacy with her was just another means of release. Seldom did he wish for it in that regard, but this night was different.

He found himself longing for the simplicities of the old world. Throughout his life, the hunter could only recall a handful of casual sexual encounters … how each of their names escaped him. They were important at the time, lust prevalent and heavy, met with a short-lived embrace. At least it seemed short-lived in retrospect. His whole life was a fleeting moment, the years he had with Andrea but the blink of an eye.

Even with Victoria at his side, he still thought of Andrea, what she’d think of him. But yesterday’s moral compass was in need of substantial recalibration; the standard of what used to define a good man no longer applied in this world, surely she knew that. Still, in dreams he’d often find her face, marked deeply by the concern and disapproval she had of the man he’d become in her absence. Countless lives had ended as a simple result of his whim. Every tally adorning the side of his building, though placed beside the names of his men, each of them belonged to him. He’d been at the helm of genocide–the oppressor, the orchestrator of everything. Would Andrea have stood by him for that? Would she have understood?

But hybrid blood wasn’t the only kind lining the insides of his fingers–that of men drenched his hands as well. He’d murdered in multiples with hardly a reservation, for the high road to which he’d formerly been accustomed was now scarcely traveled and cluttered with the dead. And in order to regain the respect of his people, the hunter would need to kill again. If there was to be a knife planted firmly in someone’s spine, he opted to be the one holding its hilt. It appeared his relationship with Rick, strained as it had become, was finally coming to a head.

The hunter only noticed he’d been claimed by sleep when he’d

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