Awake in Shadows by Eve Langlais

Author:Eve Langlais
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eve Langlais

Chapter Fourteen

The next address Mammon visited proved even less remarkable than that of the Lycan pack. He held in a grimace as he stepped into the rat king’s home. The things he had to do himself since the agents he’d smuggled into this world had failed so miserably…

The stench of rodent permeated every inch of the space. Disgusting. He’d have to burn his suit.

Unlike the wolf alpha, the rat king didn’t hesitate to let him in.

“So, you work for Hell?” the rat king asked, leading Mammon past a living room that had probably never seen better days to a kitchen that surely spawned the plague itself.

“You might say I serve Hell’s interests.” So long as they coincided with his own.

“And you’re here, why?”

“I am in need of information.”

“Really?” The beady eyes showed a wily astuteness. “’Cause what I heard is you’ve been going around paying off folks who’ve had problems with demons causing damage.”

“Violent incursions are rare, but when they do occur, we take them seriously. Rest assured, we will take measures to ensure it doesn’t happen again.”

“Now there’s a load of bullshit,” the rat said with a sneer. “In the past forty-eight hours alone, there’s been seven known attacks, including one on a warehouse that put some of my people out of work.”

A well-informed rat king. Perhaps Mammon would finally get the information he sought.

Mammon showed none of that on his face but continued in his annoying, placating tone. “A regrettable occurrence. A slackening at the borders. We have already dealt with the breach.”

“Why are those demons attacking?”

“Creatures of chaos don’t usually have a motive.”

The rat shook his head. “These ones did, though. Way I heard it, they were after someone specific.”

No point in lying. “As a matter of fact, they were searching for someone.”

“Who?”

“A female. Not a demon,” Mammon hastened to add. “However, she does bear a taint.”

“What’s her name?”

“We are unsure what she’s chosen to use in this realm.” The spells hiding her kept many facts from him. It made his task so much harder. But he’d prevail in the end. He would find her.

“Do you have an example of her scent?”

“No.” If he did, he’d have her in his clutches already. He’d come closest with the first attack. Only to have his three best agents foiled. Agents now in hiding because they’d killed some puny humans.

The rat king eyed him even more shrewdly. “Can you describe her?”

“We have reason to believe she’s changed her appearance.” The reports he’d heard thus far differed. Dark hair. Streaked. Short. Tall. The magic hiding her changed people’s recollections.

The rat snickered. “So, you mean to say you’re looking for someone, a woman, whose name you don’t know, whose appearance is unknown, and for whom you don’t have a scent. Gonna be honest, short of her stepping forward, doesn’t sound like you stand much chance of finding her.”

“I assure you, if you meet her, she is not easily forgotten.”

“And you’re here to…what? Threaten me into finding her?”

“Who’s threatening?” Mammon spread his hands in a gesture meant to make him appear benign.

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