The Death Chronicles Trilogy by J.E. Taylor & William F. Houle

Author:J.E. Taylor & William F. Houle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: death, fate, demons, leviathan, rite of passage, coming of age, purgatory, reapers
Publisher: JET-Fueled Fiction
Published: 2014-07-06T00:00:00+00:00

Highway to Hell Chapter 4

Fate’s ultimatum kept derailing my concentration and I finally threw the joystick on the table in frustration. Julia glanced at me and I ran my hands into my hair, letting out an exasperated exhale.

She hadn’t asked me what happened on the street, and I hadn’t volunteered anything. Even now I was hesitant to discuss it with her and I wasn’t sure why. Julia knew who I was, and she knew eventually I’d have to free my father, but she didn’t know the timeframe and I knew she couldn’t suffer anymore loss than she already had.

“Why didn’t you invite Danny and Ben inside?”

I laughed and glanced at her. The last thing I wanted was to continue the mini-family reunion, but she deserved an answer.

“I didn’t feel like continuing the conversation,” I said, knowing she had a ton of questions whirling around her pretty head but the answers she was searching for were not what she wanted to hear.

“Why not?”

“Because I just didn’t,” I snapped. When my gaze dropped to my hands, I stared at my fists before slowly uncurling my fingers. “Sorry,” I muttered and glanced at her.

“What happened?” she asked. Her big brown eyes implored me to spill everything and I sighed.

“Ben and Danny are Fate’s brothers.”

Silence fell over the room.

“And the original death was their older brother,” I added, using finger quotes when I said original death.

Her eyes got big, like saucers. “Are they dangerous?”

I shrugged. “I honestly don’t know how dangerous they really are but they’re certainly different. You didn’t keel over when you shook their hands, so as reapers go, they really don’t fit the mold. Fate sent them here after your parents died. I guess she knew enough from your destiny to know we would end up here and wanted them in place.”

“In place for what?”

“In place to help me get my father,” I said and waited for those words to sink in.

Her head cocked to the side like a curious puppy and then her eyes narrowed and she shook her head. “Oh, no. You aren’t going into the reaper world again,” she said like she had some authority over me.

I couldn’t help the smirk, or the challenge I gave in the form of an arched eyebrow. She crossed her arms and leveled a glare in return.

“I don’t have a choice.”

Fate made that perfectly clear. If I failed to rescue my father, I would have to take his place. If I succeeded, she would see what she could do about bending the rules for me as long as my father agreed to stay in the post for a few more years. That alone was enough to make me consider the ridiculous notion of going up against Leviathan, but what she had said next clinched it.

If I didn’t organize a rescue mission, Julia and anyone else I got close to would die.

I would be cursed to walk the earth alone and when the time came for me to take the helm as Death; she would see to it that I would be chained to the position for eternity.

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