Shadows May Fall by Melissa Olthoff

Author:Melissa Olthoff [Olthoff, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-09-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

I dropped gracelessly back onto my stool with my water bottle clutched in a white-knuckled grip and glared at my idiot brother. “Are you insane? We can’t go there.”

“Go where?” Mikey demanded as she sauntered back into the kitchen. I blinked and checked over my shoulder, but the front door was still closed. I knew she was just messing with my brother when she had him open the door for her. That rat could go wherever she pleased. “Is it somewhere fun?”

“If you consider the heart of the Lelantos’ territory ‘fun,’ yeah, sure,” I said sarcastically.

Mikey hopped back up on the counter and pinned her ears flat. “Fuck that shit. Fir darrig don’t go there anymore.”

Okay, so she mostly goes wherever she pleases.

“Well, we have to,” Alec replied firmly.

“Why?” I glowered at him. “You didn’t go to the temple. And I swear to the Mother, if you say it’s because I’m weaker than you I will stab you with something sharper than a damn fork.”

“I had our father’s help.” He shot Sebastian a poisonous glare before he ran a hand through his hair in frustration. “I… I don’t know how to help you like that. You need the temple, and for that we need to go to Greece.”

“Explain,” Sebastian replied shortly.

I sighed at the mulish expression on my brother’s face. I could probably stab him with my fork and he still wouldn’t explain things to the Shooter.

“Before we walk the Balance, the two halves of our power don’t play well together.” As if in response, the storm of my talents raged a little harder and I absently rubbed at my chest. “Walking forces them to blend, but it drives a lot of us insane, so much so that whole generations of Kidemonas refused to walk. There was no need to risk it with the Sluagh hunted to extinction in this world—”

“And a temple in the heart of enemy territory helps you how?” Sebastian demanded, impatient with my long-winded explanation.

Alec bristled at the curt question, but I elbowed him into silence before he could start another fight. “Before we were run out of Greece, we used the temple because of tradition. It was only after we no longer had access that our failure rate skyrocketed. According to legend, that temple is where our magic was gifted to us. Places that old tend to remember, I guess.”

Curiosity softened the hard lines of Sebastian’s face. “Gifted by who?”

“More like a what,” Alec said with a crooked grin that lit up his eyes.

I grinned back. This had always been our favorite bedtime story growing up, and my voice automatically shifted to the familiar cadence of the tale. “Some called them angels, others called them demons, but our family named them Grigori—Watchers. Our oldest stories say they were visitors to our world and found their old enemy wreaking havoc. When they were called home before they could destroy it, they gave us the tools to do it ourselves.”

Sebastian arched a brow skeptically. “Your magical powers were bestowed by fallen angels.

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