Blood of the Demon by Rosalie Lario

Author:Rosalie Lario
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: touch of the angel, rosalie lario, siren, mark of the sylph, angel, entangled publishing, demon, paranormal romance, demons of infernum, call of the siren, Paranormal, Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, fantasy romance, Zombies, dragon, blood of the demon, heart of the incubus, Contemporary Romance, fae
ISBN: 9781620610398
Publisher: Entangled Select
Published: 2012-07-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Keegan raced Brynn toward the elevators, Ronin only steps behind. About halfway there, the elevator doors opened and a small army exited. The acrid stench of boarg demons assaulted his senses. Why did they always smell like they’d rolled in their own piss?

“Shit.”

“The stairs are back this way,” Ronin called.

Keegan spun Brynn around to follow his brother, tugging on her arm to move her faster as they hastened toward the stairwell. Seventeen floors were a lot of stairs to take with an army of demons at their backs. But as it turned out, they didn’t make it down one flight before they ran into another group of demons heading up the stairs toward them.

Ronin halted, staring down at them as if debating whether or not to try and fight his way through anyway. “Son of a bitch.”

Any other time Keegan would have said, “Hell, yeah,” but he counted at least ten of them, more than he and Ronin could take on without risk of injury. That wasn’t an option now, not when they had Brynn to consider.

“The roof,” he ordered, doing an about-face and dragging Brynn up the stairs. They’d just reached the top of the landing leading out to the roof when the first group of demons converged with the second, barreling up after them.

Keegan tried to open the door, but it was locked. He backed up and hurled his body forward, throwing his shoulder against it and easily busting the lock. Closing his hand around Brynn’s, he all but carried her into the frigid night air.

He froze halfway between the door and the edge of the roof. Brynn let out a harsh gasp beside him but was otherwise silent. The night was dark, but enough artificial light drifted up from the street lamps that the three of them saw what was on the roof—four winged figures. They were hideous, with their leathery gray flesh; webbed, bat-like wings; backward-bending legs; and hooves where their feet should be. Compounded with their seven-foot height and wide, muscular bodies, they were a menacing sight.

“Guess Mammon anticipated us heading up here,” Ronin said.

Keegan nodded. Of course he had.

“What are they?” Brynn whispered, her voice raspy with fear.

“Rayamara demons.”

“They…fly?” she choked out.

“They fly,” Ronin said.

They were also very rare, but Mammon had somehow managed to not only locate, but retain, a small number of them. They surrounded the roof, and a small contingent of demons now gathered at his back. They were cornered.

Just my luck.

Keegan whirled to face the demons at his back. Scattered across the roof, they slowly stalked forward with devilish smirks on their faces.

“What now?” Brynn cried.

“Make a getaway,” Ronin said. “I’ll hold ’em off.”

“Getaway?” Brynn squeaked. “How can we possibly go? There’s nowhere to go from here.”

“No,” Keegan said to Ronin. “I’m not leaving you.”

“There’s too many to fight,” Ronin said.

His brother was right. They were surrounded by at least fifteen demons.

“Even if you could hold all of them off, I can’t just abandon you,” Keegan said.

“Can you…you know?” Ronin asked him.

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