The Demon's Covenant by Brennan Sarah Rees

Author:Brennan, Sarah Rees [Brennan, Sarah Rees]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Magic, Fantasy, Young Adult
ISBN: 9781416963820
Google: pJv7HXDFujAC
Amazon: 1416963820
Goodreads: 6594657
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2010-05-18T00:00:00+00:00

The Lesson of Fear

She lay flat in the backseat of the car for hours, staring up at the worn gray roof and trying not to think about Alan’s hands holding her too tight and the kiss that had tasted like a goodbye.

If Liannan killed Alan, she was the one who was going to have to carry the news back to Nick.

It would be all her fault.

She shut her eyes and tried to concentrate on the music, while Alan’s death played out against her eyelids.

“Mae, are you asleep?” Alan asked, at which point Mae opened her eyes, scrambled up on her knees, and punched him in the chest.

“No, I was lying back contemplating the fact of your death and listening to some truly embarrassing music!”

She pulled out the earbuds and turned off her iPod, shoving it into her pocket to hide the evidence. Alan looked hideously tired, gray shadows under his eyes, as if someone had rubbed their dusty thumbs over the tender places directly below his lashes, but he smiled.

“What were you listening to?”

“I don’t wish to discuss it at this time,” she said loftily.

What she did want to do was give Alan a hug, hold on hard to make sure he was real and alive after all the horrors she had been imagining, but he looked like he might break or fall down if she touched him.

She climbed into the passenger seat instead, and Alan got into the car, moving carefully, as if he was old. He turned the ignition, and Mae reached out as the car came humming to life and touched him, very gently, on the shoulder.

“What did you ask her, Alan?”

Alan did not look at her. He looked over the steering wheel. The sky was ashen, all the blue bled out of it as gray evening set in, and Alan’s face had a tinge of the same color.

“I asked her whether I could trust Gerald to keep his part of the bargain,” he said hoarsely. “And she says that I can.”

Mae felt as if someone had pulled her stomach out from under her.

“The bargain where you betray your brother and rip his powers away from him? That bargain?”

“Mae,” he said.

“Aren’t demons meant to be—aren’t they meant to be magic? They are their power; you’d be cutting him in half. Less than half. You’d trap him in a box and start sawing, is that it?”

Mae was almost surprised to find herself raging. She’d been so relieved to see him, such a short time ago. It was ridiculous to be so relieved you felt dizzy and so angry you felt dizzy in such swift succession. She looked down at her knees rather than at the fields of home passing her by, or Alan’s face.

“And you’d lie to trap him.”

“I lie all the time,” Alan said quietly.

She looked over at him, and his hands were steady on the wheel, as if he wasn’t bothered about any of this, as if he didn’t even care.

“What happened between you and Nick in Durham?” she demanded.

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