Stirring Embers: An urban fantasy action adventure (The Light and the Void Book 1) by Willem Killian & Liam Starker

Author:Willem Killian & Liam Starker [Killian, Willem]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Digital Prospects (Pty) Ltd
Published: 2021-08-02T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 32

The ride home was a quiet one. Eleanor didn't talk to Deputy Giles, except to find out if he would like something to eat or drink. He declined graciously, had walked her to her front door, insisted to go into the house first to “look around.” He finally allowed her into her own house and left her alone when he deemed that everything was safe and secure. He urged her to lock all the doors and check that her windows were closed and latched and then returned to his squad car, which was parked on the street, across from her house.

After a visit to the bathroom, she found herself in the kitchen, where she plugged in her TASER. She was still contemplating whether she should put the kettle on when there was a soft, almost polite knocking on her back door. It was just after one, it had been a long day, and she was tired, but Eleanor should have known better than to just open the door.

“Don't be alarmed Eleanor,” the stranger said.

It was so unexpected that Eleanor didn't know how to react. It was the tall, glowing stranger from that afternoon. The one that was invisible to Sheriff Troger.

“I mean you no harm,” he said, offering her his two hands, palms facing upwards. “I am here to help, and perhaps you can help me, too,” he said by way of explanation. “May I come in?” When he got no reply from her, he simply stood standing outside the door.

Eleanor knew now what the term dumbfounded meant. Her brain seemed to have shut down and she didn't know what to think about the man in front of her or why he was here. Or how he had found her. Or how he knew her name.

Feeling helpless and simply giving in to the situation, she nodded and moved out of the doorway so he could enter. There wasn't much else to do. She was too tired to object.

He was a huge man, and although he didn't have to duck to walk into her home, his head was only a few inches short of the door frame.

He entered her kitchen as he had arrived – completely silently. Even in the glow of the kitchen lights, Eleanor could see the almost phosphorescent glow that emanated from him. Her numb, tired, dumb mind kept shoving a description to the fore, but she was lax to even acknowledge it. Nonetheless, if someone had asked her at that very moment in time to describe the tall, silent stranger, she would simply have said that he was angelic.

“I have to apologize,” he said in a soft-spoken but deep voice. “Etiquette dictates that I never enter a home with my weapons without gaining the host's permission first, but these are extraordinary circumstances, and I apologize for the lapse in decorum.”

Eleanor simply looked at him, her tongue and thoughts still at a loss.

“Please, sit.” She eventually managed.

If he had been here to kill me, he could have done so already, she thought.

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