Into the Abyss (Hell on Earth, Book 2) by Brenda K. Davies

Author:Brenda K. Davies
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, love, adult, demon, paranormal romance, paranormal, apocalyptic, mating, new adult, action and suspense

CHAPTER 25

Magnus

“Fascinating history,” I murmured when we stepped free of the trees.

We strode back through the burnt-out town on the border of the calamut forest. The glow of the full moon shone on the land, revealing the pitted road, broken homes, and dilapidated remnants of the humans who once thrived here. Even though it had been fourteen years since the gateway opened and the bombs were released in this area, the stench of burnt flesh and wood was still detectable on the air.

“Or sad.” Amalia’s skin turned red when she rubbed her arms again.

“It’s both. You’re hurting yourself,” I said and grasped her hands.

She tugged her hands away from me and gave me a look of both anger and intense suffering. “Those lives touched me. They’re in me!”

“Those lives are not in you,” I said as I reclaimed her hands.

I held them against my chest as her ochre-colored eyes stared pleadingly up at me. Running my thumbs over the backs of her silken hands, I watched as her mouth parted, and my body quickened in response to her. Except, this time I longed to hug her against me and shelter her as much as I wanted to taste her again.

“But they are,” she whispered. “I felt their strength flow through me.”

“Amalia—”

She tugged at her hands again. When she grunted in frustration, I reluctantly released my hold on her, and she spun away from me. The edge of her dirt-streaked dress trailed on the ground, becoming browner in color as she stalked down the remains of the battered street. With subtle ease, she avoided the jagged pieces of asphalt jutting up from the broken road.

I hurried to catch up and fell into step beside her. “You don’t have to go back into the Abyss.”

She abruptly halted. “Yes, I do.”

“We’ll find another way to help the others, and we’re not doing much good—”

“But we are doing some good. I don’t care how much I despise that place, I’m going back in there, and you can’t stop me.”

A smile curved my mouth as I stepped closer to her. The impudent expression on her face was as amusing as it was alluring. Over the course of the past two days, some of her hair had straggled free from her braids and cleaved to her face. She didn’t bother to push it away, but I brushed it back before I cupped her cheeks in my hands.

“I’m going back in,” Amalia insisted.

“What if you open a portal and let me go in alone?” I asked as I stroked her silken cheek with my thumb.

“And how would you get back out if you needed to?”

“I’d find a way.”

“There is no finding a way, if something were to happen, you wouldn’t be able to get out.”

“That’s for me to worry about.”

She blinked at me before she gave a derisive snort. “Silly, arrogant demon.”

“We could arrange a designated time to meet up again.”

“It seems as if they’re the same, but time in the Abyss might pass differently than it does here.

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