Valen (Guardians of Hades Romance Series Book 2) by Felicity Heaton

Author:Felicity Heaton [Heaton, Felicity]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-02-24T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Esher stalked through the wet streets of Tokyo, the breeze cold against his cheeks but already carrying the scent of morning.

Time was running out.

He prowled around a corner and looked both ways along the intersection, his honed senses charting several blocks around him as he scoured them for his prey.

Restless hunger gnawed at him, never sated and ever present. He growled through clenched teeth and then pulled down a slow breath, closed his eyes and focused, stilling his body to focus his mind.

The black need abated, but refused to leave him, still held him at its mercy and whispered seduction in his ear, words that promised retribution.

Satisfaction.

He huffed and stepped, appearing on a rooftop above the intersection. The wind was stronger up high, whipping the tails of his long black cotton coat around his leather boots and the jeans he had tucked into them, filling the silence with the sound. He welcomed it, focused on it and his body, and that black need.

A hunger to destroy.

He shifted foot to foot at the very edge of the roof, toes hanging over the drop, mind clear and focused, body honed and ready.

Soon.

The kill would be his soon.

It would satisfy him enough that he could rest and regain his strength for the next night.

For the next hunt.

He eased back so his toes were on the edge of the skyscraper’s roof and crouched, resting his elbows on his knees and allowing his hands to dangle between them as he waited.

Waited.

Minutes ticked past and mortals appeared, scurrying around below him like ants. He didn’t care where they were going or where they had come from, or which of them was rushing to their death.

For once, they weren’t the target of his ever-present urge to kill.

His usual need to make them suffer had been redirected, replaced by a consuming desire to locate the ones behind the attack on his brother, Ares.

The ones who wanted to open the gates.

The ones who had tried to harm his family.

His lips peeled back off his teeth, darkness bleeding through him as rain began to fall. He would find them, and they would pay for their sins.

They would pay for trying to hurt the ones he loved.

The wind picked up, rain lashed his face and his coat fluttered behind him.

He remained still, not moving a muscle and not feeling the cold as he scoured Tokyo with his acute senses, picking out every mortal within a mile radius.

The bright lights and neon shone up from the streets all around him, all across the vast city. He lifted his head and scanned the panorama, studying it.

To his left, Tokyo Tower speared the sky, bright orange against its backdrop of the business district and the river. On his right, a dark swath in the middle of too much light called to him like a beacon, a pocket of nature that surrounded the castle of the emperor.

Back when he and his brothers had first arrived, much of Tokyo had been open space, filled with traditional wooden structures.

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