The Hunter Secret by Juliana Haygert

Author:Juliana Haygert [Haygert, Juliana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-24T16:00:00+00:00

14

Rey

Avoiding Erin for the last couple of weeks had been way too hard, especially after our time together forging her Dawnblade. A week ago, I found out Thierry had come to campus to work with her on the ball’s preparations. It had taken every ounce of my will not to go spy on them. To not interrupt them again before Thierry not only kissed her hand, but also her lips.

Trying to get Erin out of my mind for a change, I headed out of the academy to meet up with an old friend.

I drove past West Hill, onto an isolated road that led to a small ranch at the base of the mountain. Here the snow still covered most of the ground, and the road leading to the main house was thick with ice. I drove slowly and parked my car beside the beat up truck in front of the barn.

With her long brown hair tied in a loose braid, Vaira stomped out the house, stopped by the edge of the porch, and pointed her finger at me. “No, I don’t want to see you right now. Get off my property.”

Did I mention she was a friend? Yeah, that was a fucking lie. We were more like acquaintances and not good ones.

About a hundred years ago, Asmodeus sent me on a contract-dealing mission for Zeltov, another prince of the underworld. He said there was a woman in her early thirties who was about to lose her mother and she would do anything to avoid that grim fate. So, I went to her and offered a contract—if the woman gave her soul to Zeltov, her mother would be saved. The woman didn’t hesitate.

But there was a catch. Like me, the woman was half-demon, daughter of the prince she had sold her soul to. And because of that, the prince was able to bind her to him indefinitely. Like mine, her contract didn’t have an end date. Like my story, her mother lived for a long time, but in the end died and left her alone.

However, I was able to get rid of my contract when Asmodeus died. I was still immortal and powerful, and I would always be a half-demon, but my ties to the underworld had been severed.

Vaira’s were still intact.

I had always felt bad for brokering her contract and dooming her to such a horrible fate. Because of it, I tried checking on her occasionally, but she always pushed me away. Truth was, she hated me for what I had done.

I couldn’t blame her.

“I came with an offer,” I said, knowing that didn’t sound good at all.

Vaira put her hands on her waist. “Are you fucking serious?”

“Just hear me out.” I took a couple of steps toward her, soaking my boots and feet into the snow. “Randall is creating a unit of half-demons. He says he wants to show the demon hunters that not all half-demons are evil. He wants to introduce them to the demon hunter society.”

She scoffed. “Randall is crazy.

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