Heavy Metal Heart by Nico Rosso

Author:Nico Rosso [Rosso, Nico]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Demon Rock#1
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2013-09-30T10:00:00+00:00

Drip your kiss

To my dying lips

I taste your life

I take your life

And make it my own

“The lyrics are real,” she said, hardly believing, “to ‘Pine Box.’”

“The best art is true.” He turned to check over the street. An energy to move built in him. “But I can’t feed from the audience anymore.” A long breath didn’t settle him down. “For my kind, there’s always been this legend of the Muse. A woman whose energy can feed a demon forever. And he can share his power with her. The catch is, only this woman will give him life. No audience, even if it’s the world’s biggest concert, can sustain him.”

It was as if she was buried under tons of stone and dirt. Holding her down. Squeezing her until she couldn’t breathe.

“I didn’t ask for this,” she growled.

“Neither did I.” There was a note of sadness in his voice. “You... You’re not the same. We’ve changed each other. I don’t think you’re mortal anymore.”

Flashes of cold electricity shot through her body. She’d thought it was just adrenaline from the car wreck and invisible threat. “What am I?”

“I don’t know if you can feel it yet, or if you can control it, but the same elements that make me are in you now. It started when we made love, when we shared the power.” He took her hand, stared at it, then at her face. “You’re becoming what I am.”

Demon? Beast? “Can we turn it off?”

“None of us even believed the legend of the Muse was true. Let alone how it worked. But with the demons things aren’t as simple as on and off. We go by the way of nature, the ebb and flow.”

“There was nothing natural about that thing that tried to kill me.”

Another glance over the street. “A Shroud, sent by the Philosophers.”

The known world had doubled in size, most of it a blank map. “Who are they?”

The energy that buzzed through him urged her to move too. “We still aren’t safe.” He tried to leave, but she tugged him back.

“Just tell me why they want me dead.”

“It’s me they want. The Philosophers always want to erase my kind. They found their opportunity tonight and sent the Shrouds.”

“At me.” The invisible menace of the beast still shook her.

“You’re my Muse. If you die, then I die.”

The suffocating danger tightened around her. Each shadow hid evil. Even the lurid neon of Sunset hissed with malice. Trevor’s hand was still careful with hers as dark sadness shrouded him.

“We have to keep running,” he pressed.

“I... But I don’t know why I...”

“I know.” His eyes narrowed, a light blazing deep in them. “Fuck fate. You don’t owe me anything.” He took a long breath, releasing it through flared nostrils. “I’ll protect you. I’ll die, knowing I kept you alive.”

She was stunned, frozen. There had been so many incredible things, unexplainable phenomena, tonight. But there was no questioning his resolve. It showed on his serious face. He was so focused that when he moved, she broke out of her shock and followed.

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