Dark Mercy (Gothic Urban Fantasy by Zoe Winters

Author:Zoe Winters
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Zoe Winters

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Hadrian’s eyes snapped open to darkness. There was a shroud or blanket wrapped around him—and the rich scent of damp earth. Suffocating. I’m suffocating. He let out a howl as he struggled in the shroud. Then he remembered: he didn’t have a true need for air. Something different animated him now.

Relax. Everything is fine.

His soul hadn’t been able to move on. It had been trapped, waiting to reanimate his body, waiting for his body to be able to house it again. But it wasn’t just his soul. There was something else. A darkness tainted him. Demonic instincts and abilities had knit themselves around his soul. And knowledge, so much knowledge.

Father Hadrian hadn’t been sure what would happen if he tried to exorcise a demon while being turned. He wasn’t even sure which demon he’d been attempting to exorcise: his own or Angeline’s. He didn’t know if the way his human soul and demon soul had merged and blended were the normal way of things, or if his ritual had caused it.

He felt like one whole thing. Not evil, not good, but something that could go either way. He’d been… awakened. Good and evil were passing shadows in the face of the greater whole. He just hoped his chanting had done what he’d believed it would. It wasn’t the standard use of the exorcism ritual, but the spirit of his intention had been the same—to gain power to protect himself from a demon.

Angeline grew impatient on the surface. Her blood was part of him, but he didn’t have the mindless compulsion he knew he was supposed to feel toward her. So far, so good.

Hadrian ripped through the fabric and tunneled up through the dirt with a strength and fluidity that surprised him. When he broke the surface of the ground, and fresh, clean air filled his lungs, he coughed, overwhelmed by how sharp and loud and crisp everything was. His senses were so heightened, he wanted to go away and be in a simple quiet room for a few days, just to get his bearings. But he couldn’t afford to do that right now; his freedom was on the line.

Angeline had redressed him in his clerics, and he couldn’t decide how he felt about that. Was she mocking him? Why would she dress him in this? To rub in his face what she’d so callously taken from him?

What’s that smell? It was like the Heaven he hadn’t been allowed into, a smell as pure and clean as the light he’d spent three days in. He felt crushed suddenly by that thought. The light had been more brilliant than the sun; it had teased him with something he couldn’t have. Darkness had been given as his companion instead.

If this works, you can make a choice. You can go back there. He was unsure if the mental voice was his human side or his demon side.

His eyes darted to the source of the delicious scent. His nostrils flared when he saw an attractive blonde in a white dress.

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