Eternally by Eternally

Author:Eternally [Eternally]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-12-24T00:10:27.303000+00:00

While he watched her, Julie’s eyes hardened, her chin lifted and her back instinctively went poker-straight. There was more going on here than she could ever imagine. That much she knew. She still couldn’t believe the images that were burned into her brain, but she knew with a bone-deep certainty that they were all real. That somehow, someway, she had tapped into Kieran’s mind and seen much more than he had wanted her to see.

But now it was too late. There was no going back. She couldn’t un-see what she’d already seen. She couldn’t forget those images. And she wouldn’t pretend otherwise.

“You owe me some explanation for all this.” She whipped her hair out of her eyes when the wind tossed it across her face. “Damn it, Kieran, what is going on? Tell me. I’m not going to fall apart and I think I’ve earned the right to some answers.”

After a long minute, he solemnly nodded. “You have. I will tell you what I can.” He paused again, as if choosing his words carefully. “I have already told you that the killer loose in your city is not a man, but a demon.”

He had, but she hadn’t believed him. “Yeah, but—”

“And that I am the only one who can capture it.”

“Yes…”

The moon dipped behind a bank of clouds and the pale light dimmed, leaving her and Kieran standing together, wrapped in shadows. Julie shivered and clutched the edges of the shirt he’d given her tighter around her.

He blew out a breath, locked his gaze with hers and said softly, “I am a Guardian. One among many.”

Steeling herself for the rest of the story, Julie asked, “What exactly is a Guardian?”

“A warrior. In the end, that is all we are.” He shifted his gaze from hers to the lights of the city stretching out into the horizon. Walking to the roof’s edge, he planted both hands on the battlements and leaned forward, staring off into the night.

“We are given a choice,” he said, his voice almost lost in the soft sigh of wind, “at the moment of death. We can choose to remain dead, allow our spirits—our souls—to move on. To go to whatever waits for us…or, we can choose to continue to fight.”

“To continue…how?” She could hardly believe she’d asked the question. Was she believing this? Did she really think that Kieran was a long-dead warrior looking for new battles?

He glanced at her over his shoulder and his pale eyes seemed dark, somehow. There was no light there. No warmth. There was only…acceptance. Of his destiny? Of her disbelief?

She couldn’t be sure.

“We become Immortals.”

“That’s impossible.”

“Is it?” He spun around to face her, moving so quickly, she hardly saw the movement. Then he leaned one hip against the cold, stone wall and studied her again.

He looked like a man who belonged in a castle. His broad, bare chest gleamed in the half-light. His too-long hair whipped in the breeze and his hard eyes were narrowed into slits. “The castle you saw when we kissed.

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