Demon Heart by Emma L. Adams

Author:Emma L. Adams [Adams, Emma L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BA
Published: 2016-07-06T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

The Past Has Power

Breathing heavily, I leant back on my pillow. Sweat soaked my covers, but no flames licked at my skin. Safe.

What the hell happened?

I got up and paced the room, trying to reassure myself that I was fine, that I was in the here and now, and that dreams were as insubstantial as ever.

Except I knew that to be a lie. My dreams were more real than most people’s, because the demons liked to manipulate my deepest fears and use them against me. For some reason, they’d decided that I needed to see Melivia’s past.

Let me show you immortality.

I’d thought she’d died in the fire. But now it occurred to me that anything could have happened. With no witnesses, there was no one to say whether she’d survived or not—save the demons. The demons alone knew what had really happened. If she had survived, what had happened to her?

What about the doppelganger? It shouldn’t exist, not even in my dreams. A higher demon had killed it. Unless… Nothing dies forever. Not in the Darkworld.

Of course, there was no way of knowing whether single demon manipulated my dreams, or a collective effort. Given that every demon I’d met had been fascinated with me, I suspected that I might never be able to find out.

I still felt too hot, like I’d stood too close to a bonfire. I opened the window wide, inhaling the cool night air, feeling it soothe my skin. The sky outside was clear, like a jewelled gown of deep blue studded with stars. The forest, serene, barely disturbed by a faint breeze.

I needed to take a walk and clear my head of thoughts of demons. I dressed quickly and dragged a brush through my hair, banking on not running into anyone out there to notice or care that I looked like a scruff-bag.

Bar a single early-morning jogger, the path was completely deserted, and I walked swiftly through the woods, trying to escape my own thoughts. The cold air calmed my racing heart, but my thoughts continued to spin, turning back to demons.

The idea that they might be listening in on my thoughts crept up on me occasionally, and although I couldn’t pretend it didn’t disturb me, I couldn’t do anything to prevent it. But when coupled with the knowledge that someone conspired against me in the real world, it made me feel like a wild animal caught off guard by a trap, a fish caught in a net.

Melivia’s face flashed before my eyes, her facial expression turning from terrified, to fighting, to the blankness of possession. However uninteresting a person she’d seemed in her journal, in that moment she’d been braver and stronger than almost anyone I knew…

Crap. I really am an idiot, I thought. The diary. If anywhere had any answers about what I’d seen in the dream, it was Melivia’s diary.

I power-walked back to the student village. Back in my room, I opened Melivia Blackstone’s journal to the last marked page. It was time to find out the truth.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.