Hell Can Wait by Celia Kyle

Author:Celia Kyle [Kyle, Celia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sci Fi & Fantasy
Amazon: B073QRJGWN
Published: 2017-07-03T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

A sick grin spread across Keller’s face and he took a step forward. “Caith, I’ve been waiting for you to come.”

Under any other circumstances I would have replied with some snark at his double-entendre, but my head was so clouded and my stomach churned wildly, I would have fallen over if I didn’t have the tree to hold me up.

Keller took another step and Reggie moved in front of me. He bared his massive fangs, acidic ichor dripping from his mouth and burning the grass at his feet. He snarled, his threat clear.

Keller hesitated. Even a werewolf-warlock like him wouldn’t want to mess with a hellhound.

“Keller,” I drew my ex’s attention. “What are you doing here?” I fought to shuffle my thoughts into some semblance of order, but nothing made sense. Keller couldn’t be here. He was supposed to be missing. But even if I found him, it was so he could heal me. He wasn’t the one controlling these things. He was a healer—a batshit evil healer, but still a healer. I had to be hallucinating. Again.

“Waiting for you.” He held out a hand. “Now that you’re here, we can join. With our powers combined, we will be unstoppable.”

Right there, that “powers combined” thing? I really wanted to bust out with the Captain Planet theme song. Dammit, why didn’t I feel better? That would have made this conversation so much more fun.

I shuffled back a step and grabbed a low-hanging branch. “I’m not joining you. We haven’t been together for a long time.”

“We both made mistakes in the past, but things have changed.”

“Yeah,” I snorted. “I’ll say. Now you’re a madman who raises the undead. What the hell, Keller? You used to be a healer.”

He lowered his hand and his smile vanished. “Fighting to keep mortals alive is a waste. I spent centuries extending their meager lives, but in the end, it’s all the same. People die. Their spirits go to On High or Hell. I finally decided that prolonging their misery was a waste of energy.”

“A waste?” I spat. “Their eternal afterlives are a waste? You think it’s better to just steal their manna, the essence of their souls, for yourself?”

He extended his arms to either side and tilted his head back to look at the sky. “The more life force I cull from the cattle in the tween, the stronger I become. Don’t you see it?” He looked at me. “Why do you think your uncle is so powerful? Because he draws on the souls of the damned. He uses them to make himself stronger. Now I have that power. Together we can have so much more.”

“Together?” I shook my head and put more distance between us. I touched my throbbing wound. “Is that what this is about?”

He shrugged. “I doubted you’d join me of your own free will, but once the transformation is complete, you’ll have no choice. You’ll be at my side—my queen.” His lips curled into a dark smile, blackened teeth hidden behind his lips.

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