Sacred: A Dark Captive Romance (Ritual Sins Prequel) by Stella Hart

Author:Stella Hart [Hart, Stella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-09-25T00:00:00+00:00

5

Sebastian

I knew she’d be back.

I leaned forward, staring at the laptop screen as the footage played out. My sweet girl was on the screen, slowly trudging toward the Covenant boundary fence. I had a perfect view of her, courtesy of the trail cam I’d installed on a tree directly across the borderline.

Every night, I fast-forwarded through the day’s footage, hoping to catch another glimpse of her, but for weeks, she hadn’t shown up. Part of me thought I might have frightened her off forever with my ghastly appearance last time I went there, but at the same time, I had a strong feeling that she’d eventually see my presence as some sort of sign.

I was right. She was back at the spot now, long black hair tucked behind her shoulders and pale blue eyes fixed right on the camera as she headed toward the fence.

Of course, she had no idea the cam was there, tucked in a nook, and even if she spied it sitting there, she had no way of knowing what it was. The Covenant refused to use most modern technology, apart from the glaringly obvious, like the electric fence. Most of its citizens had likely never seen something as basic as a TV or phone, let alone a spy camera with Wi-Fi streaming capability, full color, and sound, all wrapped up in a package the size of my fingernail.

As beautiful as she was, I couldn’t help but notice that the girl looked a bit off today. When I zoomed in closer on her face, I could see that her eyes had a glazed appearance, and her face was expressionless. It was a marked contrast to her appearance a few weeks ago, when she saw me staring at her. I still remembered the look of abject terror on her face, bulging eyes and all, along with the strangled shriek that slipped from her mouth after she dared to ask me who I was.

Fuck. It made me hard just thinking about it.

I got the idea from my undergrad studies. Back then, I was a member of a collegiate secret society. We did all kinds of weird, fucked-up shit during those times—it was basically a glorified fight club—and we painted ourselves up to look like Death whenever we had an initiation ritual for newer members.

It was all to set the scene and scare the shit out of the new guys, and it worked. They knew what they were getting into the second they walked in and saw the wild, macabre scenes everywhere, and they learned to act accordingly. Every single one of us went from a regular freshman to a hardened bastard by the time our senior year rolled around. And now, a few years on, those creepy painting skills had come in handy for me in giving the Covenant girl a good scare.

It worked perfectly. She genuinely thought I might be some sort of evil spirit, as evidenced by her asking me who or what I was, as if

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