Midnight: Nightmare Dragons by Bolryder Terry

Author:Bolryder, Terry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

A few hours later, Nathan was sitting on the beach, in control of himself once again, watching the moon reflect silver light on the cold ocean waters in front of him.

It was a small beach attached to the park where Phil had attacked Sasha.

Phil’s body lay abandoned a few feet away, lifeless and drained.

Nathan sighed and took a drag from one of Phil’s cigarettes. As he released a long breath, he wondered what humans saw in these little fire sticks. He flicked it away and watched it slowly burn out on the sand, flickering orange before going dark.

The way fire and light had seemed to finally linger in him when he’d been joined with Lillian.

But he’d just gone and proved once again why he couldn’t be with someone like her. With anyone as precious and fragile as a human.

They were supposed to be his food.

In over a hundred years, he’d worked hard to see humans as more than his biological programming suggested. As complex creatures with their own needs and desires. The intense caring they could show for one another and the intense cruelty as well.

That moment making love with her had been an example of how humans could be so open, so vulnerable. So willing to give themselves up to others, to love and care and touch and connect.

He also knew it was what made humans so unsafe at times, because the darkness was out there, and humans were as susceptible to it as anyone else.

Half the people he’d killed had simply been monsters of opportunity, given plenty of chances to hurt others because of the naivety and overall goodness of the humans who’d trusted them.

He couldn’t understand that. The urge to extinguish goodness and innocence. The pure sadism it took to kill, not help, others but purely out of selfish pleasure and control.

Then again, maybe he was just deluding himself in thinking he was any better than the humans he had to destroy.

Maybe.

But then again, he did save a lot of humans. Far more than he’d killed. He’d like to think his creator would have agreed had she showed up to keep her promise.

He had his hospitals, his philanthropy, and the countless people who didn’t end up victims because he’d had the foresight to kill the monsters who would have ended them.

Still, he knew that was a flimsy justification for being something that should never have been created.

At times like this, he wondered how his brothers were doing.

But they had to stay apart. They would be safer, less detectable that way.

He watched the moon a little longer and then decided it would probably be safe to go home now. He’d armed the alarm before he’d left, and he pulled out his phone now to check that everything was still fine.

When he noted with relief that everything looked normal, he slid the phone back in his pocket, ignoring the ache inside him that said he should have been alongside Lillian all along.

But what would have happened if the

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