Demon Queen Series: Book 1-3: Hell's Belle, Pandora's Box, Belle's Hell by Eve Newton

Author:Eve Newton [Newton, Eve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eve Newton
Published: 2020-10-19T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Gregory

“Uhm,” I mutter as I step forward to calm Annabelle down. No one else has moved a muscle, so I’m guessing this has fallen quite definitively into my camp. Fair enough. I am currently treating her for anger management. I have come across plenty of unstable characters in my time, some downright dangerous. Granted, they are no Anti-Christ, but still. I know how to handle myself around an angry creature.

“Annabelle,” I say calmly, but loud enough for her to hear me.

“Not now, Gregory. Counting isn’t going to cut it.”

“I get that, but perhaps consider taking a deep breath and closing your eyes for a moment. When you open them, see that you have your circle around you. You don’t want to hurt them. They are here to help you.”

Her furious eyes land on mine, but to my surprise, and everyone’s relief, she does as I say.

When her eyes open again, she grimaces at me. I think it’s meant to be a smile, so I return it.

She turns to the creature with the dead something slung over his shoulder. It looks like a Griffin but who really knows?

“Who are you?” she barks out, but with a little less bite than before.

“Franklin, Your Majesty. I work for Darius. We found this…” He dumps the Griffin-creature on the floor, “…outside your residence.”

“Did you kill her?” Annabelle asks.

Franklin shakes his head. “Nope. Found her this way.”

Annabelle edges closer to the dead creature, staring at her. She bends down slightly and gasps. “Shadow?” she murmurs.

“You know her?” Franklin asks.

“She’s my brother’s pet!” she snarls. “If I find out you had anything to do with this…”

Franklin holds his hands up. “No, Ma’am. We found her this way.”

“Dammit,” she mutters and strokes the Griffin’s head.

A morbid silence falls, but then we all jump backwards, Annabelle included as the Griffin Shifts into a human-looking girl with a loud moan.

“Fucking Hell!” Annabelle exclaims. “You Shift?”

“Shax!” Shadow cries out, scrambling naked to her feet. “Is he…?” She doesn’t wait for an answer, she just runs headlong out of the sin bin, into the night, with the Demon Guard hot on her heels, yelling at her to come back.

“Wow,” Annabelle says. “I did not know that the Griffins Shifted.”

“They don’t,” Killian states. “They also don’t come back to life. You are oddly connected to that creature.”

“It must be through Shax,” she mutters, but then shakes her head, fixing him with a vicious glare. “Stay away from Xavi until I can think about this. Xavi, you stay away from Killian. This is not an invitation to fuck off. Yes, War, I’m talking to you. You stay put. I will figure this out.”

Killian nods grimly and stalks off back into the residence. The only other female in the place, who I’m going to assume is Xavi, nods primly and then twines herself around a stripper pole as the rest of us look away.

“We need to talk,” Annabelle says to me, grabbing me by my hand and leading me away before she flames us out, back to my chosen bedroom.

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