Irresistible Demise (After Midnight Book 1) by Carly Spade

Author:Carly Spade [Spade, Carly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-12T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

We sat there in silence for what seemed a lifetime, and surprisingly, he didn’t try to pull his hand away from mine. He sat staring at the ground as if continuing to recall his past without my intrusion.

“So . . . Marcus Cassius Scaeva, huh?”

He sniffed once, lifting my hand to his face, studying my fingers. “Yes. Glorified Roman centurion reduced to an eternity in the shadows within the blink of an eye.”

“Marcus . . . Syus. C. S. Clever.”

His chilly fingers traced around my knuckles, making me uncomfortable, but I let him continue for now. “I figured it wouldn’t arouse as much suspicion. Not many people go by three names nowadays.” He smirked, pressing our palms against one another. Nearly twice the size, his hand engulfed mine.

“Did you ever see Catalina again?”

His face fell and so did his hand. I recoiled mine like he’d cut off one of my fingers.

“Twice.” He clipped the word, picking up a random pebble from the ground.

“And how’d that go?” I was half afraid to ask.

“She was obsessed with me. I thought I could kill her on a whim, just as I had so many soldiers on the battlefield, but something held me back. I felt compelled to warn her a second time after she draped herself over me whaling like a damned banshee. That was ten years after she made me. I didn’t see her again for another two hundred years.” He threw the pebble outside the bars with such force it cracked an outside wall.

“I’m guessing it wasn’t a happy reunion?”

“I killed her. It was the only way to be free of her.” He wouldn’t make eye contact with me.

“Isn’t there some vampire code or something? Not killing your own kind?”

Marcus laughed. A deep, throaty chuckle, causing his shoulders to bounce. I’m glad he found me so amusing, but for once in my life, I’d asked a serious question.

“The dead putting laws on the dead . . . that’s a comedic notion, really.” He finally looked at me, blue eyes somehow twinkling even within the darkness.

I could tell talking about the one who made him caused feelings to stir he didn’t feel like dealing with. Not now in this vulnerable pit of hell. “You yelled ‘For Mars.’ Did you worship planets?”

He halfway smiled. “I believe you know the Greek name for him: Ares. We worshiped similar gods but called them different things. It was long before the spread of Christianity.”

“God of War,” I mumbled, staring off into space while I tried to do quick math in my head. “You’ve been around for thousands of years. You must’ve seen so many things, Marcus. I’ve got questions like you wouldn’t believe.”

“And I’d be happy to decide which ones I’ll gratify with an answer.” He winked, that devilish grin spreading across his lips.

“How did you figure out what she turned you into? I mean, you didn’t ask her what, if anything, could kill you.”

“I learned things the hard way. It doesn’t take one long to figure out they cannot walk in the sun.

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