Fallen Halos by Erin Hayes & Rebecca Hamilton & Cursed Angel & Charmed Legacy

Author:Erin Hayes & Rebecca Hamilton & Cursed Angel & Charmed Legacy [Hayes, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Erin Hayes Books
Published: 2017-10-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

“They’re coming!” Fatma screams. “They’re coming! Theyrecomigtheyrecomingtheyrecoming…”

She sways on her horse, dangerously close to falling off, and Nury spurs ahead beside me to catch her—he won’t make it in time, but who am I to stop him? Thankfully, Kerem steadies her, and he rears back to us, shouting, “Demonlings are coming!”

“How many?” Nakir asks her. “And from where?”

Fatma looks way too pale and terrified for it to be anything but a huge crowd of them. “Lots,” she whispers. With a shaking hand, she points toward the horizon. Right in our path. It’s like they know we’re coming to the Watchtower.

Maybe Abaddon already knows we’re coming.

I exchange a nervous glance with the angel, and he catches my meaning. “We need to go,” he says, licking his lips. “Now.”

“Fatma can’t ride like this,” Jennet says, reaching out to touch a hand to the younger witch’s forehead. “She can barely stay in her saddle as it is.”

“We’ll die if we stay here. Rahym!” he roars at me, and I find myself gulping at the wrath of the angel. “Where’s the closest Door Stop?”

It’s the second day of our hard ride into the desert, and we’re nearing the furthest extent of my knowledge of this landscape. I shift to pull the map out of my saddlebags, unrolling it with a slight tremor to my own hands.

Don’t lose yourself now.

The map, to my dismay, shows the closest one about a three-mile ride in the direction right where Fatma was pointing. What kind of range does she have? Maybe they are too far. And maybe we can make it before we cross paths with the demonlings.

Assuming they aren’t out specifically looking for us. Fuck, wouldn’t that be bad luck? I think of the demonling that glared at me last night when I put out the other one’s head as a deterrent. Like he was promising vengeance for his fallen comrade.

Shit.

“We have to head three miles in that same direction,” I say, and I can see the change in everyone’s demeanor as they realize what that means. I just love being the bearer of bad news. Based on Fatma’s own shudder that runs through her body, it’s close enough to them that she doesn’t like it.

A few of the Halos curse under their breaths, panic evident on their faces.

“Where’s the second-closest Door Stop, then? One that’s not toward those monsters?” Murat asks desperately, speaking up for the first time in a long time. Good man. Smart man. Maybe he’ll have conserved enough energy to survive this.

Unlike the rest of us.

I shake my head, because that was the first thing I’d looked at. “Too far. We’d all fall into Hibernation before we ever get there.”

“Then we have to go toward the demonlings,” Nakir says.

Murat blinks. “But—”

“If we’re caught out in the open, we will all die,” Nakir says through gritted teeth. “We have no choice.”

“I’ll take Fatma,” Nury pipes up. Kerem opens his mouth to object—I see it, but he exchanges a glance with Jennet, an unspoken

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