Stripped Away: Shadow Destroyers Book 2 by Sydney Somers

Author:Sydney Somers [Somers, Sydney]
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 1-59998-673-6
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2008-02-05T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Only two of them? Quinn was almost disappointed. Although demons weren’t known to converge in big numbers unless they were trying to trigger a gateway opening to allow a Scion to cross over, she’d been up for a little more excitement.

Outside thunder boomed and lightning arced across the night sky, momentarily brightening the room. Then the wind started to howl and rain tapped at the windows—first in fat splashing drops, then an all out downpour.

Storm demons. At least that made for a safe bet that one of them had been the hostile that had gone after Cass.

Neither of them was particularly quiet as they broke a pane of glass in the kitchen door to get in. She didn’t move, nor did Braxton, as their prey entered the house. Making a move too early would warn the hostiles she wasn’t all tucked in bed, and that she wasn’t alone.

One came straight down the hall, its muscular body turned away to head up the stairs. Dressed in jeans and a plain white T-shirt, it could have been any man slipping in after a night out with the boys, determined not to wake his wife. Instead the human façade masked a deadly evil that hungered for emotion and eventual slaughter.

“You know, it’s only polite to knock.” Quinn’s voice broke the silence. Without looking behind her, she knew the moment the second storm demon eased around from the other direction. It came through the archway connecting the small dining room with the living room.

Braxton moved to her back, his sword glinting in another flash of lightning as he took position.

The storm demon that could have been a model for Barbie’s Ken withdrew a sacrificial dagger. An amused grin warped his face from something glimpsed on Saturday afternoon barbeques to a twisted slash of lips that promised intense suffering.

Adrenaline ran hot through her veins, and she grinned. “I do hope you’re at least going to try to use it.”

“Do you always have to play with them first?” Braxton asked, then shot forward to meet the second storm demon that rushed him.

Quinn’s hostile launched a simultaneous attack. Avoiding the first blow should have been easy. Storm demons were routinely the easiest to contain, especially inside where their ability to manipulate the weather wasn’t much help.

She darted around behind it, not prepared for the elbow that managed to jab around to nail her in the spine. She pitched forward, whirling to meet the demon stuck to her heels.

His eyes glowed in the dark, the feral gleam like a nightmare brought to life. She studied the human-like face, opening her senses, filtering through the details that made up the whole.

“Something’s not right,” she said, bringing her sword up to deflect the strike of the demon’s dagger.

“It will be soon,” it hissed.

Quinn frowned. The tone of its voice was…off.

It spun on its heel, digging down to catch her side. She kicked out, catching him in the groin then pivoting out of reach when it lashed out with its hand.

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