The Prophecies (The Sentinel Series Book 2) by Holly Martin

Author:Holly Martin [Martin, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

Leon’s spot on the floor had barely grown cold, when I heard the gate opening. Quinn scurried to my side again, ready to shift at the first sign of trouble. Though I didn’t think this cell was big enough to hold a grizzly bear.

Two shadows loomed from the darkness. They were very similar in size, but both of them towered over me. If I was made to be so perfect you would have thought they would have made me a bit taller.

‘I’m Nereus,’ said the one with a long silk curtain of dark hair, his skin a beautiful shade of chocolate brown, which matched his eyes exactly.

‘I’m Helez,’ smiled the other one, slightly thinner than Nereus, his skin a warm conker brown but eyes of a dazzling turquoise.

‘So,’ Nereus smiled. ‘I presume you’ve heard, I’m going to die for you.’ He said it so casually, like he was offering to cook for me. And there was no hiding with talking in my head, like Leon had done, he just came out and said it. Though I understood why Leon felt the need to be covert with his thoughts, it was his prophecy after all that had caused this tension between the Oraculum.

‘So I hear,’ I said quietly. ‘Why do you think it is that you kill Samuel?’

Nereus shrugged carelessly, he obviously had come to terms with his betrayal now. ‘I can only presume it has to do with loyalty to you, with protecting you. Cain says I die so you can live. Well if I’m going to die, then I can think of no better way for it to happen.’ He grinned at me. Out the corner of my eye, I could see Quinn relax a bit.

I shook my head. ‘Have you met Seth? You two have a lot in common.’

Nereus laughed loudly. ‘I would like to meet him. Maybe I should come down to Fort Naga one day; his name has been bandied about a lot lately. I’d like to see how that little experiment turned out. It seems you two are to wed, I like that, I like that a lot.’

I frowned slightly. ‘Little experiment?’

‘We made him, right here in the castle, because it was prophesized that you would fall in love with a man that was half human, half Deus, so we set about trying to make one. It wasn’t easy let me tell you, the human and Deus DNA doesn’t mix very well, but we managed it somehow. We created him and then sent him out to you to fall in love with. And it worked, brilliant!’

‘He was sent to protect me,’ I said, quietly and defiantly. I didn’t like the sound of this little experiment.

‘No, that was just something he was told, to protect you no matter what. As if we would send a boy to do the job that hundreds of Guardians were already doing. But he did it, he fulfilled his duty, and then he fulfilled his destiny by making you fall in love with him.

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