The Last War by Hignett Lauretta

Author:Hignett, Lauretta [Hignett, Lauretta]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07XC9D41Y
Goodreads: 50309252
Published: 2020-01-06T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“Well,” Alex said moodily. “That was a waste of time.”

“Hush your mouth, Sorensen,” Met waggled his finger at him. “That was not a waste of time. It was absolutely one of the most wondrous things I’ve ever seen in my whole lifetime.”

“It was kind of a bust, Metatron.” My voice was flat. “We didn’t learn anything that can help us.”

I was exhausted. The trip to the Devil’s Drop had drained me almost dry, and my mood wasn’t improved by the fact that it was, indeed, an utter waste of time. Once Metatron had taken photos of every single little figure in the cave, the despair had set in. It was made even worse by the fact that it was far harder to get out of the cave than it was to get in. I didn’t have Met helping pull me out, so the short wiggle down the little tunnel had taken me almost an hour. Twice, I’d lost my willpower, and the screams from the depths of the Devil’s Drop had overwhelmed me. I’d sobbed in pain before I'd managed to get control again.

I was silent on the trip up, the winch whirring slowly, dragging us upwards. Met chatted brightly the whole time, trying to help jolt me out of my mood, but all I could feel was the weight of sadness bearing down on me.

There was no action I could take. There wasn’t a thing that I could do, no special rock to find and destroy, no artifact that would give me unique powers. It was just me, having to have faith in men.

Men hadn’t had any faith in me. My history had been littered with the awful experiences with men attacking me. It was my destiny, the surging and pulsing energy within me compelled the weaker creatures to attack me, to use me to gratify themselves.

Every time I thought I could trust one, every time I let my guard down and let a man get close to me, they ended up trying to attack me. My father. The guardian at the children’s home, who, coincidentally, I had run to when a boy there had tried to force himself on me. Then, a long time later, my friend at school.

I had no faith in men.

I stayed away from them, choosing a workplace with a female manager and all-female staff. A workplace where I was bound by the conditions of employment to keep behind the desk. I avoided men. The safe space I’d carved out, in a little office behind plexiglass, was supposed to protect me.

Until that salesman caught up with me in the car park.

No. I had no faith in men.

Picking up on my thoughts, Alex tightened his arms around me. Nate, sitting opposite, caught my gaze and held it. My own eyes shimmered; tears threatened to overflow.

How could I have faith in men? Alex and Nate didn’t count - they were supernatural creatures. It was little wonder that the only man I could love in the entire world wasn’t a man at all.

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