Incubus Mini-Boss (Rise of an Incubus Overlord Book 2) by Jack Porter

Author:Jack Porter [Porter, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-25T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30

Sandy’s take on fried rice proved delicious. Each of us ate with gusto and continued refining our plans as we did.

After dinner was done, I felt a need to decompress. It had, after all, been a difficult day. So I wandered through the house until I found a small courtyard that I’d seen in my earlier explorations but hadn’t yet fully examined.

It wasn’t a large area and was surrounded by Megadeath’s expansive house. Part of the courtyard was tiled, and there were ornate, granite benches surrounding a fire pit. The other part was an artificial rock garden, built around a grouping of boulders.

Succulents seemed to be Megadeath’s plant of choice for this area, and I had to admit it looked pretty good, especially with the artificial waterfall flowing over the boulders into a pond at the base.

If I had to guess, I would have assumed this to be Megadeath’s favorite place in the house. Nowhere else did any hint of personality shine through. The architecture, the furniture, everything all but screamed modern neutral. Even the art on the wall was the type you might find in a high-end hotel. Interesting, but only as added color, without any real personality.

But this courtyard seemed to be an oasis. There was even a prayer mat positioned in front of the waterfall with an incense burner nearby.

Megadeath hadn’t struck me as a particularly religious person, but perhaps he enjoyed the tranquility of meditation.

“Worth a try,” I muttered to myself, and sat with my legs folded on the prayer mat, and just contemplated life for a while.

I’d never expected things to turn out as they had. My decision to become a hitman was little more than a spur of the moment idea that seemed to solve the immediate problem. If I was honest, I had to admit that I didn’t really think it through.

I’d thought about the impacts of killing strangers and figured that I had the type of mindset that could deal with that easily enough.

But I hadn’t really considered the physical dangers. Not to myself, and certainly not to those who had suddenly become so important to me.

I was starting to wonder if I had made a humongous mistake.

“You still yearn for status, do you not?” Azrael said in my mind. He had been quiet lately, and I had almost forgotten he was there.

Or, perhaps that wasn’t true. I knew he was there. He was part of me. I just didn’t always want him to be there.

“Who gave you permission to sniff about in my brain?” I demanded, irritated for no particular reason.

“You did. When you bound me to yourself. Your mind is my mind. We are one.”

“Yeah, whatever,” I replied. I knew he was right. I just didn’t want to admit it.

I sat in the courtyard, listening to the sounds of the water splashing over the rocks. There was a wind chime hanging from the eaves of the house. Even though there wasn’t much wind in the courtyard, every so often, a quiet puff caught the chimes so that they rang like miniature bells.

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