Fallen by Wright Suzanne

Author:Wright, Suzanne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2021-07-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

When it became apparent that Raini could wield psychic hellfire, the first thing she’d been taught to do was strangle the ability. Her parents had explained how important it was that she never use it. It wasn’t until she was much older that Jolene decided it would be best if Raini learned how to control it rather than simply suppress it.

Perhaps the Prime hadn’t liked that she’d asked Raini to effectively cut off a small piece of herself, but Raini hadn’t minded. It was better to have spent years suppressing it than to have accidentally destroyed an anchor bond. Once destroyed, there was no way to restore it. Worse, the unnatural severing of the bond could trigger the affected demons to turn rogue.

The entity that lived within every demon was a heartless psychopathic predator. The only thing that gave it a sense of balance was that it shared its soul with a person. If it no longer had that person’s sense of goodness touching its soul, it would be a being of pure darkness. The ultimate evil.

Rogues weren’t insane, but they cared nothing for logic. They felt no need to curb their desires, no matter how cruel those desires were. They’d kill indiscriminately for no other reason than that they felt like doing so—and they wouldn’t care if their actions caught the attention of humans.

The dark satisfaction they attained from inflicting pain and misery was like a drug to them. So, yes, it was never good to have a rogue on the loose. The death toll would always be high.

Only one other person in the history of Raini’s lair had ever possessed the ability to wield psychic hellfire, and that person had left behind awful scars that taunted the lair even a century later. On losing his own anchor in a tragic accident, Doyle had been so utterly devastated that he’d withdrawn from life, leaving his demon in charge.

The entity had wreaked havoc— cremating anchor bonds here, there, and everywhere. The result? Their Prime and a high number of others turned rogue.

Just one rogue could cause utter chaos. A whole horde of them were practically impossible to defeat. They had not only attacked the others within their lair, they targeted outsiders and humans—causing an epic clusterfuck.

Several of the other Primes had united to destroy the rogues, leaving the lair so small and vulnerable that some of the larger lairs had taken advantage—bullying them and trying to steal away the more powerful members, even if those members were children.

Jolene worried that if the rest of the lair knew of Raini’s ability, they’d demand that she leave for fear that history would repeat itself. And so they’d kept it quiet, hoping there never came a time when the information fell into the wrong hands. That time might now have arrived. The fact that she possessed the descendants’ secrets should still the tongue of anyone who felt like causing trouble for her. Should.

“I say we trust her,” said Celia, to which Gunther nodded.

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