Keeper Chronicles: Awakening by Katherine Wynter

Author:Katherine Wynter [Wynter, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Geminid Press, LLC
Published: 2015-01-01T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

His night just kept getting worse. Gabe left Beks lying on the side of the road because he had no real choice. The only emotion he felt stronger than his anger that she was there in the first place was the intense relief that she’d not been hurt too badly. She might not know it, but a few scratches from a demon were nothing her Keeper heritage couldn’t heal within an hour or so. Faster if she’d actually been Awakened and trained.

Which she would have to be now. He’d hoped, after the fiasco the day before, to keep the full truth from her. Now that the Hunters knew, there’d be no hiding. No safety. The Council would insist she be forged into the weapon she’d already shown herself to be.

Just thinking about it made him want to kill something. But he’d have to worry about that later.

“She’s taken too much into herself,” Mia explained, holding the vial of holy water infused with the blood of the witches tight in her fist. “The memories here—taking in so many lives like this—is too much for her to fight. The demon’s psychic stain on this area is overwhelming her. Colette has to drink this, now.”

“Help me pull her away,” Nicholas added.

Gabe heard the terrible memory like it was just happening as he reached into the blue light for the French woman’s arms: the snap of bones crunching as the demon devoured the family in the van, the rain pattering on the metal roof, and worst of all, the screams of the dying. Those sounds would haunt him the rest of his life.

The Colette-demon fought with the blind rage and stubborn determination of someone stuck in an infinite loop. Any deviation from the original memory caused her to panic and lash out. The Hunter’s arms and legs and feet were shredded, blood trickling from a hundred different lacerations, but she acted as though she felt none of it as she clawed for him.

Letting her fingernails dig into his arm—he’d had worse, after all—Gabe wrapped his arms under her shoulders and jumped backwards with all his strength. She kicked and flailed with the strength of four people, slipping through his grasp once and then again. Blue, demonic energy stirred around them, particles soaking into Gabe’s skin.

Nicholas grabbed her feet and the three of them toppled. Gabe wrestled her torso to the ground until he lay back on the asphalt road, his arms locking her shoulders and his legs clamped around her waist.

“Do it,” he shouted through gritted teeth. Behind the witch and the professor, a pair of headlights shattered the darkness. They had maybe thirty seconds at most before it would run over the lot of them. “Hurry!”

The French woman was stronger than she looked, struggling and writhing in his grasp. The headlights, only pinpricks a moment ago, had now become larger. Closer. Twenty seconds more and they’d be road kill.

Arms shot out past him, grabbing Colette’s head. Beks.

“Hold her mouth open,” Mia ordered, uncapping the vial.

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