Shadow Gods: A Dark Paranormal Reverse Harem (Sins of Divinity Book 1) by Blake Quinn

Author:Blake Quinn [Quinn, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amethyst Literary Limited
Published: 2025-12-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Dastian

Watching Voren play the gallant knight while Dreven looms like a sentient storm cloud is possibly the best entertainment I’ve had in a century. It’s almost domestic, in a twisted, macabre sort of way. Nyssa is sticking to Voren’s side like glue, eyeing the shadows with legitimate suspicion, which is fair considering Dreven is currently wearing them like a bad mood.

“Cosy,” I drawl, as we enter the so-called guest room. It smells of lavender and rot. “Though I reckon the mattress might actually bite back in here.”

Nyssa shoots me a look that could curdle milk, but her amber eyes are still swimming with that volatile light.

“Are you going to stand making remarks, or are you going to be useful?” Nyssa asks, hugging her arms around herself.

“I find my commentary provides essential morale.”

“Whose?”

Dreven brushes past me, a wall of cold authority. “Don’t provoke her, or I will toss you out the window.”

We lock gazes. I have things I want to say to him, but it will have to wait until Nyssa is out of earshot. Telling her he knows what the Devourer is goes beyond reckless. Nyssa perches on the end of the bed and bounces a few times. When it doesn’t collapse, she curls up on the end and then her face crumples. “God, I stink,” she mutters. “Does this place have working plumbing?”

“What do you think?” I ask.

She sighs. “Then you will have to let me have a shower at my house tomorrow. I can’t walk around smelling like this. Never mind a power blast, I’ll knock innocents out from the noxious gas wafting off me.”

“Be thankful you didn’t have to live back in the day,” I say with a sage nod. “The stench was unbearable at times.”

“Summer,” Voren murmurs, wrinkling his nose. “Dreadful.”

“This isn’t making me feel any better. Shower. Tomorrow. My house.”

“There’s a bucket and well out back,” I offer helpfully.

“No,” she says with a finality that makes me cave. She can go wherever she likes.

Voren lies down next to her, and she doesn’t flinch, but I catch Dreven’s eye and gesture with my head to move back out into the hallway.

He nods, and we leave, closing the door as quietly as the rotting wood will allow.

“Are you out of your mind?” I snap as we head down the stairs. “Telling her you know what the Devourer is, is a bad move, Dre. She is a dog with a bone.”

“If I don’t give her a target, she’ll aim at us.”

“So, you dangle the apocalypse in front of her like a carrot? You saw her eyes, Dre. She’s not scared; she’s pissed off. A pissed-off Nyssa is liable to try and stab the Devourer with a butter knife just to prove a point.”

“Then we ensure she has a sharper blade.” He continues down the stairs, his boots making zero sound on the wood that creaks like a dying ship under my feet. “Ignorance is not a shield, Dastian. It is a blindfold. We cannot afford for her to be stumbling around in the dark when that thing comes knocking.

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