The Sinner by J.R. Ward

Author:J.R. Ward
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2020-03-24T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE

Day transitioned into night, and still Mr. F read on, turning pages one by one, his eyes skipping nothing of the book’s incredibly uninspiring prose. From time to time, he took a break, although not to get up and stretch or go to the bathroom or find food. And it remained an eerie revelation that none of that was necessary.

No, he stopped just because he felt like it was something he would have done before: When he’d been studying in high school. When he’d been on the grind in college during the year prior to him dropping out. It seemed important to connect to who he’d been, even if the old him had no more substance than a reflection in a mirror.

Fanning the remaining pages, he remembered that scene at the end of Beetlejuice where the father is sitting in his study, trying to get through a copy of The Living and the Dead.

This thing reads like stereo instructions.

Mr. F should be so fortunate. What he had in his palms read more like the Dead Sea Scrolls trying to explain how to hook up a seventies-era record player.

But he had learned a lot. Some twelve hours after he’d started, he now had the basics about what happened during induction, and what was in the jars that had to be guarded against pilfering by the Brotherhood. He knew how slayers were killed with a stab through the empty heart cavity with anything made of steel. He understood the process by which, thereafter, the essence was returned to the Omega, as the master was called. He also had a history of the war with the vampires, including the original conflict between the Scribe Virgin, who’d exercised her one act of creation to bring those with fangs into being, and the Omega, who was her brother and suffered from what sounded like standard sibling jealousy. Further, Mr. F now knew about the Black Dagger Brotherhood, and the great Blind King, and the different social strata of vampires.

And then there was the shit about his own role. There were chapters on the previous incarnations of organization within the Lessening Society, and a section devoted to what the Fore-lesser was supposed to be and how he was supposed to act, including a primer on troop mobilization, training, and provisions.

Not that that last one seemed relevant anymore. Assuming there were a couple more of these outpost houses scattered around the suburbs of Caldwell—hello, those keys that did not fit the lock here—the pathetic, ill-matched bunch of war knickknacks he’d found during his search of this place were no doubt no better than he was going to get at any of the other properties.

As he glanced around the empty living room he’d camped out in, he had the sense of a power structure left to rot, and, like a body that through a combination of age and disease no longer properly functioned, he wasn’t sure a revival was coming—or even possible.

He’d been hoping for light at the end of the tunnel with all the packed prose he’d been wading through.

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