Shadow Riser by Deborah Barreto

Author:Deborah Barreto
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal, demons, ya, nephilim, shadows
Publisher: Deborah Barreto

10. For a Pessimist, I'm Very Optimistic

Damien felt like a stalker.

He had gone in and taken his usual perch at the big windowsill in his dining room. He used to do this almost every night since he moved into that house. But, he was doing it under orders before.

Now it was different, wether he wanted to admit it or not, everything had changed.

He had found an ally. His first real friend in over half a century since he came into his demonic heritage. Sure, he didn't act like it to her. The truth was that he just didn't know how to be one. Even more so when his new friend came with an expiration date. With her being a frail human that could drop dead at any minute and all.

The gist of the matter was that he was no longer posing as a spy for the Brethren. Granted, he still spied, it was just that now he didn't know why.

Whatever he saw, he had decided not to forward it to the Brethren. However, they still needed to believe that he was their lapdog so that he could get his shot at revenge.

He wondered idly how the Riser girl fit into any of that. Trust him to make a mess of something as simple as an observe and report job.

Looking out the window from his spot behind the green colored courtains, he noticed that things were too quiet at the Riser's. It had been nearly an hour since Kennedy had gone in and still no light was turned on and no yelling could be heard.

He had grown accustomed to not even having to make an effort to listen in on their conversations, given that every one that they had during that past week had been a very loud argument.

He found himself wishing that he had asked his new friend for her cell phone number so that he'd have it to dial right then, a thought that led him directly to his next conundrum.

Before agreeing to take on that stupid job, he had been living in comfortable terms with his anonimity. He had even come to depend on it, somewhat like a safety blanket.

Nowadays though, he often found himself wondering longingly what his life would have been like had he never known of the darker side of his bloodline. He'd probably be a very old and very wrinkled man with maybe a grandchild or two to his name.

He mused about how great his life would be like if all he had to worry about was taking his high blood pressure pills and eating enough fiber. But, there he was, enjoying his extremely fullfilling existence full of pointless staring and babysitting shadows.

Speaking of which, he remembered that Tyler – the shadow that he had been saddled with in that job – wasn't being very compliant to his comands, rather than someone else's.

He was most likely planted as a spy on him or as a means of mockery, no doubt appointed by Dante himself. Come to think of it, he hadn't seen or heard from Mr.

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