Gates of Demons: A New Adult Paranormal Romance (Keepers of the Grail Book 1) by Tamar Sloan

Author:Tamar Sloan [Sloan, Tamar]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jess Connors Publishing
Published: 2021-09-07T05:00:00+00:00

CAIN

Cain stands in the center of the circular library, welcoming the burn of Hell as it scorches through his veins. He’s known for a long time that this mansion is significant, and yet the why has always eluded him. Learning that the four teens who have captured his interest were here recently, all behaving strangely, only reinforces that.

He smiles, wondering whether he can add trespassing to the list of charges he’s accumulating against the boy.

The more leverage, the more likely he is to talk.

Cain wanders around the round room, the angle of his lips turning sour. He’s read every book. Scoured every shelf. Analyzed every symbol. He knows the Keepers of the Grail have been here—their septagram is everywhere.

And yet he’s found nothing. Despite the thousands of years of searching, despite the lives he’s had to take, he doesn’t have the answers he needs.

His hands ball into fists as the fires of fury blaze even brighter. He strides out of the room and out of the mansion. Night blankets him, the whisper of a breeze trying to soothe him. But even the wind will die at some stage.

Cain glances down at his arm, turning it until the mark on his inner forearm is visible. The Mark of Cain. The backward seven with two dashes within it is still red and raised. As if he was only freshly branded, as if the punishment of immortality has only just been inflicted upon him.

His hand clenches, the shifting muscles and tendons causing the Mark to twist and ripple. How humans crave the promise of endless life, the fools. They romanticize and fantasize about living through the ages, of seeing what’s to come. But they forget that you steadily accumulate everything that has been. Mistakes. Disappointment. Loss. And that you inevitably outlive anything good. In fact, he has seen many things die. Innocence. Hope. The belief that time will heal all wounds.

Because millennia have passed, and Cain is still living with shame and regret.

He climbs back into his car, tamping down the fury of the ages. He has his own way of making this right and that plan has already been set in motion.

The radio crackles. “We’ve had a one-four-six on Herald Street. Any available units please respond.”

Cain’s hand is on the volume dial, uninterested in some mundane break and enter when he stills. He grabs the mic and presses the button. “Detective Kane here. Please confirm address.”

“Three Herald Street,” the dispatcher clarifies. “Intruder armed but is believed to have fled the location.”

The house he was at only a few days before. The house associated with one of the women who have been abducted.

Grinning at his stroke of luck, Cain speaks into the handheld again. “Copy that. On route.”

“Copy that,” responds the dispatcher. “Second vehicle on route. Proceed with caution.”

Jamming the gas down, Cain roars away in a spray of gravel.

The Keepers of the Grail know about the Mark. They know how to end this. Reverend Daniels told him as much just moments before Cain killed him.

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