Rough copy of an excerpt of the first draft of the sequel to The Devil's Angel... but I love sharing bits and pieces with you guys so here it is...
I knew this man, somehow even though I couldn’t place him at
the moment. I watched with keen eyes as the mere presence of him felt familiar
to me and he stepped only a foot out of the shadows. He moved lithely, almost
like a cat stalking its prey and I was frozen where I stood amid all the chaos
that had just happened around me.
Liam lay on the ground at my feet and my eyes, hardly able
to be taken from the being approaching me, glanced at his lifeless form, my
necklace still entwined with his pale fingers.
“He sleeps, that is all,” the figure spoke from his dark
cover and I cocked a brow.
“You did this?” I looked around at the carnage that laid
around us. Various members of the Order lay broken and unmoving, blood soaked
the hem of my dress and I could feel the stickiness of it as it coated my
barren feet.
“You had doubts?” he questioned back, still not clear enough
from the darkness for me to fully make him out, he head bent as he surveyed his
damage.
“I demand to know who you are and what you have done here!”
I growled feeling that inane sense of defense creep up inside of me.
“Timaeus has very different desires for you than I, we had a
slight difference of opinion,” he said softly, almost nonchalantly.
“Timaeus wants nothing more than to see me dead,” I said
flatly.
“Ah yes, but only because you betrayed him.”
“I didn’t betray him, I simply didn’t bow and kiss his ass
as he wished.” My words brought a chuckle from the figure, one that rippled
through the air light soft whispers.
“Well Timaeus has never been one to let a woman get the
better of him, let alone one he is so in love with.” I snorted at his words.
“And your part in all of this is what, to come here and
slaughter them all? Sure, that’ll get on his good side,” I said folding my arms
over my chest.
“No, I came to exert authority in a way Timaeus never could.”
I saw a flash of red flame, two eyes staring at me and then his face came into
view as he stepped into the light to where I could see him. I couldn’t fight
the gasp as I looked at the man before me.
Nearly six and a half feet tall, his skin was dark almost as
if silken mousse encompassed him. He wore a crème suit, impeccable, squared jaw
and a slight scar over his left eye. But it was his eyes that drew me to him. His
eyes, once calmed turned the shade of honey, amber and fire all at once that
seemed to draw you in and swallow you whole. The silver symbols became visible
across his forehead as if someone were painting him with silver. They flashed
and were gone almost as if I’d imagined they were there in the first place.
“You’re one of the inceptives!” I exclaimed.
“Ah, good girl. You’ve done your homework,” he grinned,
bright white pearls quite the contrast from his chocolate colored skin. His
fangs glinted as he smiled and watched me with a growing curiosity.
“Y-you… it’s j-just… y-you can’t be…” I stammered, the smile
not wavering from his face.
“Oh, I assure you I can.” He moved, so quick even my eyes
couldn’t follow him and I froze as he was mere inches from me. His foot moved
and Liam’s lifeless body went flying away as he pulled me to him and inhaled
against my neck.
“What do you want?” I whispered, his hands feeling like
burning vices around my arms where they held me and he pulled back to look at
me. “Are you here to kill me?”
“So that is what you believe? Just because no one dares to
cross your handler doesn’t mean that they don’t want to.”
“So this is about Luc?”
“No, this is about you.”
“What about me?” I glared at him and he didn’t move.
“You’ve done the research, since you know of the Inceptives,
you tell me.” His grin widened.
“All I know about the inceptives are that they are a myth,
told by those within the Order that wish to hang onto a semblance of control.
Every law enforcement group of any kind needs a higher power to keep the
inmates in check. I thought it was Luc’s job and the Inceptives were the
vampires version of a bedtime story.”
“Yes and no. We are very real, I am the first. Conrad
Gauthier, the creator,” he leaned in as he spoke and inhaled again against my
neck causing me to stiffen. “Lucifer has
failed to keep his subjects fearful of him, mainly because he has fallen to the
whim of a woman.” His smirk was knowing, as if he had a secret he wished to
tell, but was having too much fun toying with me.
“So?”
“So…” his voice drawled out with a sigh. “Lucifer has failed
and now it is time for me to keep a better eye on my investments.” He moved,
his hand gripping my abdomen and searing pain riddled me causing me to scream
in agony. I was dropped to the floor as he moved away from me and I stumbled on
all fours trying to catch my breath.
He stopped long enough to look at me, his mouth opening and
the words he spoke were Latin, words I had heard before but didn’t recognize
their significance.
“You have been marked. The eve of the awakening I shall
return and claim what is mine.” He vanished as silver fog that materialized and
then disappeared like it had never been there. I struggled to my feet and made
my way through the hall to the study. My eyes scanned the books upon the
shelves and I started towards one case pulling several books down flipping
through their aged pages.
“DEVRYNNE!” Ava shrieked but it didn’t deter me. I could
feel her searching for me and heard the door to the study slam open as she
entered, her heart racing in the confines of her slender chest. “What happened?”
she asked frantically coming to me, and I shrugged out of her hold collapsing
to the ground with the book in my lap.
“And so it is written, the downfall of the King was found to
be not the one of his affections, but the birth of his affection’s love for
another. Through the Awakening of her soul, so it shall be set in motion. The
end begins like a burning fury…” my voice trailed off as I looked up at Ava
finally realizing what Conrad has said as he spoke before he left. “As the blood of an Angel shall be sacrificed
by the blood of the damned.”
“What does that mean? What happened Dev, what’s going on?”
Ava asked looking at me with panic in her eyes.
“It means I think I have bigger problems than Luc.”
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