URIEL: The Price (The Airel Saga, Book 6) (Young Adult Paranormal Romance) by Patterson Aaron & White Chris

Author:Patterson, Aaron & White, Chris [Patterson, Aaron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: YA, Fantasy, supernatural
Publisher: StoneHouse Ink
Published: 2014-05-11T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER V

DRESSED APPROPRIATELY IN A hooded black cloak, Michael Alexander crossed over to Dubai using the Threshold. With friends like Kreios, he thought there would come a time when impossible things ceased to be amazing. Wrong again. Oh, there’s a little closet in your church of a bedroom, next to your arsenal of costumes—because everybody has one of those—and it has a door that takes you down the rabbit hole? Sure, I’ll buy that. Michael could only think of Airel’s snarky comments about Narnia. It brought the smirk back to his face, despite all that had happened.

All that has happened…

He could hear it in his head now, the call of the Bloodstone. His heart felt sick, dark. He remembered when he was last under the influence of the power of the Bloodstone. It was a potent drug. It was overwhelming, beautiful. He had been surprised—he expected to feel different when so intimately connected with the essence of evil. But it wasn’t like that—it was raw and alive, no filter, no boundaries, no limits.

But that was then, back when Stanley had been around, back when it was all fun and games. The need he felt inside his body and mind now was not pleasant at all. It was demanding and painful. And whenever he succeeded in shoving aside these dark and forbidding urges, all he could think about was Airel. How artificial and empty she looked, lying there hooked up to tubes and machines. Life was a steady drizzle of tortures.

If I’d never met her, she would be living a normal life right now. She would never have been activated—she would have been happy. There were times when he wondered if he caused more pain than joy.

This is my only chance to make things right. Maybe he would be able to at least put an end to the bloodshed. He could remember the days when he thought killing the halfbreeds was honorable, even right. Stanley had taught him to hate. Guilt was the only logical result for him when he thought of how he had innocently fallen in love with Airel only to find out he’d been on the wrong side his entire life.

He successfully blocked most of the memories of his kills, but sometimes he would wake suddenly at night and see the dead faces of all his halfbreed kills from years past. He felt he could never repay and never atone for what he’d done, but this—this self-sacrifice—was a start. He could do this—he could give himself up in an effort to try to destroy the Bloodstone. I only hope Kreios can do what he told me he could do, and that he shows up on time.

When he stepped out into the stifling heat that suffocated the sands near Dubai, he knew he was close to where he needed to be. He could feel it. The Threshold read it on his heart and mind, and like a bird flying south for the winter, the part of him that was connected to the Brotherhood knew the location by instinct.

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