Harbinger (Fallen Messengers Book 5) by Ava Marie Salinger

Author:Ava Marie Salinger [Salinger, Ava Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silver Orb Publishing
Published: 2022-12-29T16:00:00+00:00

20

“Wow. Look at that smug face,” Kes muttered.

She studied Morgan with faint accusation from where she perched on a stool at the breakfast bar in Cassius’s apartment.

Tisiphone sniffed. “Like the cat that got the cream.”

Loki looked up and meowed before inhaling some gourmet salmon on the counter. He’d spent the night with the Goddesses and seemed to be in a more cheerful mood this morning. Orena scratched the demon cat behind the ears and leaned a hip against the worktop.

“This building could do with better soundproofing,” the Black Fate observed mildly.

Heat flooded Cassius’s face when he became the focus of the three Goddesses’ shrewd stares. He squinted at Morgan.

Morgan arched an eyebrow. “Hey, you’re the one who climbed on top of me.”

Cassius blushed harder.

Kes propped her chin on her hand. “How about you guys let us watch next time?”

Morgan’s amused expression vanished. He scowled. “Hell no!”

He slammed a cup of steaming coffee in front of her and spilled half its contents.

“Hey, be careful, dumbass!” Kes snapped.

They glowered at one another.

Atropos bit delicately into her smoked salmon bagel where she sat beside them, her expression that of someone pointedly ignoring the current inane exchange.

Cassius studied the faint shadows under Morgan’s eyes as he put more bagels in the toaster. Though the demigod was acting like nothing was wrong, he could see past his mask to the pain he was trying hard to hide. He could also feel the deepening coldness of Tenebra’s Rot within his soul core.

The way Atropos kept glancing surreptitiously at Morgan did little to reassure him. It was clear she was similarly worried.

Cassius picked up the remote to distract himself and switched on the TV, only to freeze when he saw the news headline. His pulse accelerated as he flicked rapidly through the other channels.

They were all broadcasting the same story.

That was when he discerned the sound of helicopters drawing close.

“Isn’t that your place?” Tisiphone asked warily.

Morgan swore. One of the local channels was transmitting live from outside the apartment block. He snatched the remote from Cassius’s slack grip and turned the volume up.

“The world is waking up to the incredible news that a group of Goddesses arrived on Earth in the last twenty-four hours to curb a devastating plague that has been ravaging the Southern Hemisphere of our planet, and to save our city from the nameless threat that caused our officials to raise the alarm of a possible terrorist attack yesterday morning,” the female news anchor was saying where she stood amidst a huge crowd outside the glass facade of the foyer.

Her cheeks flushed with excitement as she continued. “We now know why we lost communication with several countries south of the Equator this past week and what the governments of the world have desperately been trying to hide from us so as not to incur global panic. It is only this morning that we began to learn of the deadly contagion that has ripped through large sections of populated territories in South America, Africa, and Asia, sparing no man or creature or even building it has touched.

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