The Immortals
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They picked up a few items they didn’t want to leave behind as they walked through the living room, making their way to Anna’s bedroom. She wanted to grab a small case she kept a few relics of their past in that had personal significance to her, then they were getting the hell out of here before the cops showed up. Anna stepped over a pile of clothes that had been knocked from a drawer in the dresser and froze. Lying by the door to the bathroom was a large gray form, and it was still alive.
It turned its head and glared at Anna and Colin with those almost human yellow eyes. The demon was badly injured or it would have attacked them already. Colin’s grip tightened on his dagger.
“Wait,” Anna begged, “don’t kill it.”
“What? Anna, it’s a demon.”
“It’s Jeremy.”
“Not anymore. Look at it.”
“I am.” Anna started slowly backing out of the room. “Come on, Colin. Please.”
Colin stared at the hulking gray beast whose features betrayed how willing it would be to murder them if it could. “Anna, it’s hurt, it’ll be easy to kill now. Jeremy would want us to end this.”
Anna just shook her head. “What if we can save him? What if Luca can help us figure out how? And if not, we’ll find him again. It’s what we do.”
The monster made an odd moaning sound and Colin breathed slowly, relaxing his grip on his dagger, then backed out of the room with Anna. In the distance, they could hear the sirens of the approaching police cars. A large crowd had gathered at her doorway now, but The Immortals stepped around them and vanished.
Devil’s Thumb, Book 2 of The Immortals series
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