Invision by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781466868878
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

CHAPTER 9

That was not what Nick had expected the girl in front of him to say.

Ever.

Too shocked to move, he was an easy target for her.

Thankfully, Xev wasn’t the idiot he was. He grabbed him as she let loose another arrow for his head and jerked him out of the way of it, just in time.

When she went to release another, Xev used his powers to disarm her. He sent her bow flying, skittering across the burning pavement. “He’s not the Malachai who did this!”

“Yeah, right.” She manifested a sword to come after them.

Xev did the same. But he hesitated at using it on the demon. Instead, he protected himself from her attacks, but didn’t go on the offensive. “I don’t want to hurt you, especially if you’re a daughter of Simi’s. But I can’t allow you to harm him, either. He has to live.”

Her breathing ragged, she stepped back to angle her sword and circle them while debating whether or not to reengage Xev. Or maybe she was looking for a better way to attack him.

Wow, she looked just like her mother. Virtually identical. Nick couldn’t get over it. Same height. Same build. All she needed was a bottle of barbecue sauce, Goth clothes, Doc Martens, and a coffin purse, and she’d be the spitting image of the demon who’d kept him amused until his sides ached from laughter over her insightful truths and antics. Not to mention her never-ending quest to find an all-you-can-eat buffet that didn’t throw her out after half an hour of her powering through a month’s worth of their groceries.

How could he have ever harmed Simi? He loved her. She wasn’t just one of his best friends. Simi was family.

This didn’t make sense. He knew himself. Nick Gautier didn’t hurt the ones he loved. Ever. Malachai or no Malachai. It wasn’t in him to be like that.

Was it?

Could he really be that treacherous and not know it?

As he tried to understand, his head began to careen as a thousand images tore through him at once and drove him to his knees. How could life change anyone this much and turn them into a monster?

How?

And in that moment, he saw the pained expression on Kyrian’s face the night he’d asked him what it’d felt like the first time he’d gone into battle as an ancient warrior and taken someone’s life.

More than that, he saw and felt Kyrian the day he’d actually done it. It wasn’t just a vision. It played through him as if it were his own memory. As if he were there in Kyrian’s place. Feeling and seeing everything his boss had.

For some reason, he’d thought Kyrian was older when he’d gone off to war.

But his stalwart boss had only been nineteen or twenty at the Battle of Prymaria. More skinny than muscular.

Practically Nick’s age …

Back then, Kyrian hadn’t been the fierce, competent general Nick knew and respected. Like him, he’d been nothing more than a scared kid, trying to make sense of a world that really was random and nonsensical most of the time.

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