Seduced by Darkness by Lacey Savage

Author:Lacey Savage [Savage, Lacey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Anthologies, Paranormal, Collections & Anthologies
Amazon: B004JU21UY
Publisher: Changeling Press, LLC
Published: 2009-07-02T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Heidi chewed on her bottom lip. Her skin prickled with restless anxiety as the temperature in the old church rose to barely-tolerable levels. She didn’t need the heat to remind her of what was out there. The evil menace slipped into her soul and taunted her with whispered promises of power and evil deeds.

The more demons that assembled outside the church doors, the harder resisting their call became. Her head throbbed mercilessly, making it hard to focus. There were moments -- brief moments, thankfully -- when she wondered why she even bothered to fight Baal. It would be so much easier to give in and let the Lord of the Underworld take care of her.

He might, too. If she aligned herself with him, he’d hand her the world on a platter. Or string her by the soles of her feet and dip her head in molten lava. With Baal, it would probably depend on his mood at the time.

Thankfully, she had a way to anchor her sanity. And he lay propped up on one elbow on the altar, staring at her as though she’d lost her mind.

“Well?” she asked when the silence had stretched on for far too long. “What do you think?”

Both Varin and Lillian simply blinked, peering in her direction like she’d struck them speechless by giving voice to her thoughts.

Sighing, Heidi plopped her butt down on a decaying pew. The old wood groaned, threatening to topple over, but held. “I know what I’m talking about. I’ve studied magic. If Varin could filter his potent demonic energy through a human in order to thin the veil between worlds, then he could do it again to reinforce it. Right?”

Nothing. For a moment, she considered getting up and doing a naked cartwheel. It wouldn’t accomplish anything, but it might get some sort of reaction out of them.

“Uhh… yeah, theoretically,” Varin said at last, choosing his words carefully. “But I can’t use my powers from where I am. Baal stripped them from me when he condemned me to an eternity of torture, remember?”

“Oh.” What little hope she’d gathered seemed to drain out of her, leaving her deflated. She propped her chin on her outstretched hand. “I didn’t think of that.”

He cleared his throat, looking run-down, wary and very much like Varin. Even though he still inhabited Luke’s body, there was something about the way he carried himself, a certain innate strength that told her exactly who she was dealing with. And then there were the eyes…

She’d known the moment Luke’s soul had moved aside to make room for Varin’s. The slate-gray orbs had grown shadowed almost instantly, deepening to a midnight-black even darker than the pupils in the center of Luke’s eyes.

A woman could get lost in eyes like those. No wonder she found it hard to think. Between the constant rage clawing at her black, demonic heart and Varin’s unnerving, sensual gaze, she was amazed she could still form coherent sentences.

On the other side of the altar, Lillian looked like she had no problem at all keeping her composure.

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