Sins of the Immortal by Jamie McGuire

Author:Jamie McGuire [McGuire, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jamie McGuire
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Eden

My eyes opened just as I sucked in my first breath of fresh air. The first thing my gaze settled on was the chandelier above. I was focused more on what was at the bottom of the trust fall, so we didn’t end up in the hallway where we’d been, instead landing on our backs in Grandmother’s bedroom. That meant my sweaty, soot and sand-covered skin lying against my grandmother’s one-hundred-year-old Tabriz Persian rug. I could hear her sigh from the drawing room.

I scrambled to stand, with Levi’s hand still in mine. I pulled him up, but slowly. He had pushed his body too hard while we were in the Underworld.

“I shouldn’t have brought you down there so soon,” I said. “You’re still not healed.”

“I guess it takes me longer the older I get?”

“Or you’ve lost favor. Maybe some of your powers were given to you by your father?”

Levi frowned, unhappy with the thought. His expression changed. “Do you hear that?” he asked.

I nodded. Whatever it was hanging on to Levi’s mother emanated a constant, low growl that grew louder when I fixated on him. The demon knew I was aware of it. The old entity was a spy for Lucifer himself and had already relayed all the information it had gathered at that moment. I was glad we’d found a way around its eavesdropping, but no one else could hide the way Levi and I could.

Grandmother’s heels clicked down the hallway, and she opened the door, gesturing for us to get the hell out of her bedroom. Politely, of course. We stood in the hallway, waiting for her to speak.

“It’s listening,” Grandmother said. “And has been quite cantankerous since you left. Whatever you plan to do, you should do it now.”

“My parents should be here,” I said. “We need all the guidance we can get.”

Levi nodded.

I dialed Dad’s number and held my cell phone to my ear.

He picked up on the first ring. “Everything okay, sweetheart?” Dad asked.

“I need you to come home.”

“On my way,” he said, hanging up.

I looked into Levi’s eyes, hoping he’d change his mind. “You’re sure?”

He hesitated. “It’s up to her, but I know what she’ll say. Eden?”

“Yes?”

“Your grandmother is Cambion.”

“Yes. You sort of let that cat out of the bag with my mother present, remember? My mom didn’t speak to my dad for three days after that.”

“But … how does she hear the tag? Typically Cambions don’t have those senses. She seems to know a lot more than she should.”

I waited a beat. “Maybe you should ask her.”

Levi shook his head. “She scares me. You ask her.”

“Your father is Satan, and my grandmother scares you?”

Levi frowned. “If I said yes, would you think less of me?”

I turned toward Petra’s door and stared at it for a full minute. “If I asked you to pray with me, would you think less of me?”

“You won’t.”

I sighed, grabbing his hand. “Pray with me.”

His brows pulled together, and the tears forming in his eyes made them glisten in the low light.

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