Marek: Guardians of Hades Series Book 4 by Heaton Felicity

Author:Heaton, Felicity
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Keras seized Esher before Marek could reach him, holding him in place and weathering vicious snarls as Esher tried to break free of him. Crimson ringed Esher’s deep blue irises, a warning sign that Marek wasn’t going to take lightly.

“Get him the fuck away from here,” he snapped at Keras, because if he didn’t, Esher was going to rip Caterina to shreds.

Marek couldn’t let that happen.

“A fucking daemon.” Esher bared fangs at Keras, the scarlet band in his irises growing as he kicked at Keras’s legs, leaving marks on his black slacks. “She hurt him. She hurt—”

Keras and Esher disappeared in a swirl of black smoke.

All of the tension that had been building inside Marek flooded out of him and he reached out to his left and gripped the newel post next to Ares to keep himself upright.

Ares just looked at him, giving him the same one that Daimon, Calistos and Valen were levelling on him.

“She has information.” It was a reasonable excuse for Marek wanting to keep her out of Esher’s claws. “He would have torn her apart.”

“She in the basement?” Daimon looked beyond him, to the junction in the corridor that led down to it.

Marek nodded. “She’s out cold.”

“I’ll wake her up.” Valen cracked his knuckles.

Ares tossed him a black look. “No violence. She isn’t liable to talk if we’re rough with her.”

“She isn’t liable to talk at all. You don’t understand.” Marek moved into the corridor to block the way to the basement, because he needed his brothers to know what they were dealing with, he needed to see they understood everything.

Not just the fact Caterina was sick.

But that pushing him right now was dangerous.

He wanted to hurt her, but he needed to keep her safe. Right now, he was torn in two directions by the same instinct. He wasn’t sure what he might do if his brothers laid a hand on her, and he didn’t want to find out.

“I think she’s infected with daemon blood. I still don’t get the feeling that she’s a daemon. It just isn’t there. My gut doesn’t react to her as it does with daemons, but sometimes my instincts kick in when I’m near her. When father’s blood in my veins is at the helm, I can feel the daemon in her.” Marek looked between his brothers, and Daimon and Valen exchanged a look.

Calistos leaned against the wooden wall. “I don’t feel it either. If you told me there was a daemon in the basement, I wouldn’t believe you.”

“Esher would say otherwise,” Daimon put in.

“Esher reacted because he saw I was hurt and because the darkness is always at the helm with him.” Marek was confident of that. “You told him about Caterina, didn’t you?”

Daimon gave him a sheepish look. Ares huffed. Valen shook his head.

“There was a reason I didn’t want him to know, Daimon. Not yet.” Not until he had figured out the truth anyway.

He still wasn’t sure what he would do if it turned out she had been telling him the truth all along.

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