The Holy Trinity Trilogy by Madeline Sheehan

Author:Madeline Sheehan
Language: eng
Format: epub

CHAPTER ONE

FALL

I have the worst luck. Really, I do. You would think I had been a serial killer in a previous life with the sort of luck I have.

“You really don’t want to do this,” I repeated, my eyes fixed on the shotgun barrel aimed at my chest.

The teenage girl holding the gun laughed. It was a nervous laugh and I knew instantly she felt no joy in the thought of blowing a hole in my chest. She was simply trying to survive in a world where the odds were stacked against her.

Angry at being held at gunpoint, I was still impressed that she had made it this long with only a shotgun and her clumsy boyfriend to protect her. The latter, who at present, was rifling through my belongings.

“Where are the keys, bitch?” he yelled, whipping my duffle bag across the room. I sighed. Did he really think I was going to tell him?

“I’m only going to say this one more time,” I told the shotgun. “You really don’t want to mess with me.”

Yanking me up by my t-shirt collar, the boyfriend brought me face to face with him. He smelled horrible, as if he hadn’t had a bath since the world had come apart at its seams. His face was covered in dark smudges and his chin-length brown hair was matted and beginning to naturally dread.

Dreads. Dark bronzed skin. Brown eyes so opaque they looked black.

“Listen bitch, I want the keys to that Jeep outside and I have no problem killing you to get them.” He gripped the front of my jeans, jerking me back to the present.

“Jason! No!” the girlfriend screamed. He shot her a dirty look.

“Jesus, Carrie, it’s the only place we haven’t looked.”

“No!” she screamed. “Her eyes! Look at her eyes! They’re black!”

“I warned you,” I told them calmly.

Looking down at me, Jason’s light blue eyes widened in shock. “What the…”

I blasted the creep backwards. In a cacophony of smacking skin and cracking plaster, he went through the wall and knocked his head on the beam behind it. He fell hard on the wood-planked floor and bounced a little before falling still. Blood began to pool around his head and I knew without having to check that he was dead. I swallowed hard. I hadn’t meant to kill him. I had just wanted him away from me. But I didn’t have time to dwell on it. Hardening my emotions, I used the girlfriend’s momentary shock to rip the shotgun from her shaky grasp. I threw the thing across the room to join her boyfriend and grabbed my duffle bag.

I had known this was going to be a bad idea. Yet sleeping in a real bed, after months on the road sleeping in vehicles or magically-warded ground, had been too tempting. I had stumbled across this deserted, Podunk town in the middle of Nowheresville, Pennsylvania and took a chance. As I was saying…I have the worst luck ever.

“Wait!” the girl screamed as I turned to leave.

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