Trinity Blue by Silver Eve

Author:Silver, Eve [Silver, Eve]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780986935701
Published: 2011-04-13T16:00:00+00:00

Daemon moved through the dense woods, silent, quick. Little moonlight filtered through the heavy canopy of branches and leaves. That was fine. He didn’t need light.

He stopped beside the rotting trunk of a fallen oak. He hadn’t wanted to let Jen go. He’d wanted to keep her beside him where he could keep her safe. It was only the certainty that what he sought was here in these woods that had convinced him to stay behind.

The best way to keep her safe was to find the demon before it found another victim.

Breathing deeply, he closed his eyes and set the trinity free, shadows in darkness. The three misty shapes rose from his skin, snaked around his limbs and through them, blending, adapting, taking form then dissipating.

“Hunt,” he said, sending them to their task, and they darted away into the night, unseen, unheard. Silent menace.

Free of the trinity for the moment, he summoned his stores of magic, a surge of bright power. He could see in the dark. He could run for miles. He could hear the breath of the smallest creatures in their burrows.

And he could sense dark magic. It was close, dripping malevolence and hate, and it made the continuum writhe and twist at the insult.

Something vile laid claim to these woods. It had killed. Recently. He could smell human blood and brimstone, feel the surge of demon power in the air.

Following instinct, he ran, skirting trees and vaulting logs, his blood pumping through him, the wind clean and cold in his face. He hunted. And he found them. Hybrids. Brutish creatures that had been human once, but when faced with death, they had chosen to allow demon will to overtake their souls. They were human no longer, serving a monstrous master.

There were only two of them. A scouting party. Their hands were stained with blood, which meant they had fed earlier. Daemon felt a surge of disgust. Hybrids preferred their prey live, bloody, and human.

They scented him, heads jerking up, faces turning toward him. Their eyes were marble black, their expressions bestial. That was perfect. He was feeling a little bestial himself tonight. They were in Jen’s woods, behind Jen’s house. He didn’t want them here, didn’t want them anywhere near her.

The trinity sped to him, black shadows in the night.

“No,” he said, wanting this fight to be his, needing to know he was the one keeping her safe. Jen. Something about her reached inside him and fanned the embers of emotions he had thought charred to ash. The way he felt about her was primitive, elemental. He would keep her safe.

The hybrids came at him, one from each side, claws raking his flesh. He welcomed the pain, welcomed the burn of cold fury that burst from deep inside. With a snarl, he lunged, speed and power. Sweat dripped from him. His skin and clothes grew wet with blood. His—red. Theirs—black.

In the end, he stood, breathing heavily as their remains bubbled and hissed and disintegrated into sludge.

At his

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