Huntress of the Unseen by Lucia Ashta

Author:Lucia Ashta [Ashta, Lucia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Awaken to Peace Press
Published: 2019-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Had I been an ordinary person I would have woken up screaming. But the ship of Ordinary sailed long before I was smart enough to realize that being normal was actually a blessing and that ignorance was truly bliss. An ordinary life, a boring one even, where demons didn’t hunt you to claim your soul whenever you dropped your guard, suddenly sounded like a damn fine life. Certainly, life expectancy would be longer.

I blinked into wide animal eyes and figured I’d woken up in the wrong world. Maybe I’d died and ended up in some kind of afterlife reserved for people who fought demons even though it was the last thing they wanted to do. I’d been stabbed by a demonic blade. Last I’d checked, my arm looked bad, barreling its way toward worse. It would make sense that I’d be dead.

What didn’t make sense was that the animal eyes I stared into brimmed with worry. And they were the wrong shade of blue. They were a human blue, one I’d been content to stare into for hours when Alek and I would spend the day making love, resting in each other’s arms, and then making love again.

On days like those, I’d believed that color divine, a color so unique that it could only come from the heavens as a reward for all I put up with on this Earth.

I’d recognize that blue anywhere. So when thick, inhuman eyelids blinked across stormy, sky blue eyes, I shut my own.

There was no point to any of this. I was either dead or I’d lost my damned mind.

For the first time since arriving at the old, musty theater, I willed the blackness to come and claim me.

Wouldn’t you know it? When I actually wanted it to come, it refused.

I stubbornly held my eyes shut. Damn life, never giving me what I ask of it.

But soon I grew tired of pretending I was asleep. My arm throbbed and ached so hard that I was sure I wasn’t dead—unless I’d somehow ended up in Hell where torment was extra credit. I hoped the Fates wouldn’t be so cruel as to send an exorcist demon huntress to Hell.

A bearish whine and something that felt remarkably like a big, hairy, animal paw nudged at me.

I sighed—a big, heavy one—and opened my eyes.

There they were. Those eyes of recognizable blue set in a hairy bear face hadn’t gone anywhere.

Bears weren’t supposed to stand by a human woman and whine. Nor were they supposed to urge her to wake up.

The bear looked at me so intently that a crazy thought sparked in my mind. This large bear looked at me so much like my Alek did.

The logic was there, it was slapping me in the face. A part of me was going there long before the rest of me could catch up.

I pushed to my elbow on my good arm and looked for where I’d last seen Alek. The man my heart had betrayed me for was no longer there, nor were the circling wraiths of darkness.

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