Run Like the Devil by Jayce Carter

Author:Jayce Carter [Carter, Jayce]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Reverse Harem Romance Fiction
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group
Published: 2023-04-06T00:00:00+00:00

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Yazmor

My skin hurt. It felt pulled too tight, as if it could no longer fit my true form. It felt thin, as though it might split at any moment.

“Where could they have gone?” Gorrin asked, a panic in his voice that was entirely at odds with the man I’d known for so long. I’d watched him face nearly impossible odds in the past, but never had he so much as blinked in response.

Then again, Loch was chaos incarnate. She managed to upend every individual she came into contact with, throwing their actions and life into disarray.

She has certainly done that to me.

“She’s this way,” I said as we walked through the fog, having left the Path.

“How do you know?”

“I sense her.”

Gorrin narrowed his eyes at me. “And how is it you can do that?”

“My species were apex predators. Tracking one little demon isn’t that hard.” Especially her. Somehow, I was always aware of her, like we had a connection between us no matter how far away we went. It ran through the world, something outside of time and space, something that bound us together.

“Why would they wander off?”

“Maybe they saw a butterfly.”

Gorrin rubbed at the bridge of his nose. “They aren’t you. They wouldn’t do something so foolish.”

I thought back to the time we’d been scheduled for a meeting, so long ago that Hale and Tyrus had yet to become Demon Lords. I’d missed it because a green butterfly had fluttered past me, and I’d been unable to resist chasing it.

“How often do you see green butterflies?”

“That doesn’t explain how you ended up in the bounce house of an eight-year-old’s birthday party.”

“No one else showed up. It would have been rude to not stay.” I looked over at Gorrin with a smirk. “And as I recall, you had a piece of cake as well when you found me.”

He let out a sigh and shook his head.

Which pricked at my nerves. I recalled Loch’s harsh tone from before, when she’d snapped at me, wanting me to be quiet.

People had done that for a long time with me, so much so that I thought myself past caring. I wasn’t human. I had no reason to feel hurt or bothered when they pointed that out, when they made it clear I did not fit in.

It was like a dog getting upset when others pointed out he wasn’t a bird.

So why was it that the behavior I had grown so used to suddenly bothered me?

I couldn’t answer, which darkened my mood all the more.

Still, no matter my unresolved feelings, when Gorrin and I had realized that we no longer saw any signs of Loch, Hale and Tyrus, that took priority. Even if I couldn’t quite place my feelings, that didn’t mean I could ignore a missing Loch.

I doubted I could ever wash my hands of her. That bond between us was far too strong to break over something so trivial.

Is there anything more than that bond, though?

I thought back to how

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