The Divine Chronicles- The Complete First Series Box Set by M R Forbes

Author:M R Forbes [Forbes, M R]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Quirky Algorithms
Published: 2019-06-03T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2

I woke up to the crowing of a rooster somewhere outside of the farmhouse. When I opened my eyes, I saw that Sarah had shifted in the night, flopping away from me onto her stomach, where she was fast asleep. Four-thirty, I knew. I had been out for nearly twelve hours. Twelve hours that the Beast had been able to use to gain his strength.

“Josette.” I closed my eyes and reached out for her. I felt rested, but there was something there, a sense of wrongness that I couldn’t place. I found her, but we were both still ragged.

“Ulnyx.” I tried calling out to the Were, but I didn’t expect him to respond. He had shrunk away from me as much as he could after Lylyx had died and Charis had stolen his revenge, and right now I was nowhere near strong enough to force him out of hiding. I felt only a small drop of sympathy for him, knowing how he had resisted returning control of my body to me when the fight was already lost. He would have killed us both in his rage.

I slipped off the mattress as quietly as I could, and made my way out of the bedroom and into the bathroom. There was a cracked mirror hanging above a rusted out sink, which I used to confirm that I looked as horrible as I felt. I peered into the reflection, examining the remnants of the wound Sarah had made with Malize’s sword. The heavenly light hadn’t hurt the way the hellfire did, and it had healed pretty well externally, save for a smooth white line on my abdomen that I wasn’t sure would ever fade. Instead, I felt the drain of it on the inside, as if it had burned away a part of me. The fact that I was healing so slowly, and still felt so tired only added to that belief. I evacuated the bathroom, creeping across the bedroom as quietly as I could, heading for the stairs.

Charis greeted me with a weary smile when I emerged into the small living room where I had left her. She was still sitting in the chair in front of the empty fireplace, her eyes bloodshot and puffy, her lips dry and cracked.

“You look like crap,” she said.

“Speak for yourself,” I replied. “Although, I do feel like I got run over. Malize’s sword…”

She shook her head. “Malize’s sword didn’t do this,” she said. “Heavenly light isn’t like hellfire. It can only harm demons.”

It figured that the angels wouldn’t have anything that could harm one of their own. I wished I could have been more thankful for that, but the truth of it left me more concerned. “Then why do I feel so lousy?” I asked.

“You know why, signore,” Dante said, walking in through the front door that I hadn’t heard open. I was in worse shape than I had thought.

“The Beast?” I asked.

He nodded. He looked like he was faring much better than we were.

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