Incubus Kiss (Death Kiss Book 1) by Robin Thorn

Author:Robin Thorn [Thorn, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-24T22:00:00+00:00

I arrived back home that night just as dawn was beginning to rise over Briarwood. My whole body ached, my eyes swollen, and face damp from crying. The moment I walked through the front door, I was met by my parents.

My mother hugged me. It was a strange feeling. We weren’t a ‘hugging’ family, so I bristle beneath their embrace. Not wanting to feel love or weakness ever again. Suddenly I couldn’t breathe, as though the life was squashed from my lungs.

I let out a choked sound.

“Sit down,” Mum ordered, guiding me to the living room.

Trembling and fragile, I lowered myself onto the sofa. Dad hovered at a safe distance, while Mum handed me a lavender tea.

“This will calm you,” she said.

I wanted to throw the china teacup at the wall. I wanted it to shatter as I had. Into many tiny, unfixable pieces.

Dad watched from afar, I knew he felt my pain, but he had no words for me. That was okay. I had no words, either.

“Poor girl.” Mum sat down beside me and folded her hand around mine. “I knew tonight would be the night.”

Numbly I processed her words. Sam, I realised instantly. She’d known about Sam all along, right up to the point where we would reach our demise. So my mother was privy to my break up with my secret boyfriend? That alone was another steel blade to the abdomen.

“I’m sorry, honey,” she whispered. “Truly, I am. I hate seeing you so hurt. But you know this is the way it has to be. It is for the best.”

“I know, Mum,” I reply through gritted teeth. “That’s why I did it.”

Dad gave me a pained look. “We’re both so sorry that you’re going through this.”

“It’ll get easier.” Mum squeezed my fingers.

Right. How would she know? She married her childhood sweetheart.

I tried to nod, or speak, or even just smile, but the expression couldn’t form yet.

“Phoebe…” Mum went on. Her tone had shifted, turning businesslike. She was May now, the Guardian. “I know this is hard, but we need you to tell us where the lair is…”

The lair?

“They’re colonising,” she continued. “I’ve foreseen it. We need to stop them before their numbers get too great.”

Suddenly the tick of the grandfather clock seemed deafening loud. Her words sounded jumbled in my ears.

“A new Incubus is forming a colony,” she said. “Their leader goes under the name Leonard. We need to take him down before he recruits more.”

I stared blearily into my lavender tea, watching the sprigs dance on the murky surface. “I can’t,” I murmured. “I don’t know.”

My parents swapped an exasperated look.

“Please, Phoebe,” my mother implored. “This isn’t a game. We need to act fast. Where is the Incubus hideout? Your friend, the boy, he must have told you.”

The words were stinging, rupturing my heart. I was supposed to tell them where Sam lived, so they could go and slay him?

“Mum,” I choked out a sob. “Please. I don’t know where the lair is,” the lie tumbled from my lips, fractured.

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