Death's Lover
“Lucky for him, no one noticed. He’d pulled an old trick and paid with essence. The money looked real, felt real, but by tomorrow morning would be nothing more than a memory.
Eve kissed her sisters good-bye on the stoop and then turned when they headed inside, rolling her neck from side to side with a tired-hound-dog expression.
They walked in silence. Abandoned streets echoed with the sound of their footsteps. The darkened sky glittered with the light of a trillion white jewels, like a ...glittering sea of diamonds. The night uncharacteristically fog free.
“Thanks for being there tonight, Cian,” she whispered so low he even had a hard time catching it.
He nodded and shoved his hands deep into his pockets. Tonight had been a numbing terror for him. So many bodies. Hands reaching, clamoring, clawing like some apparition of a Hollywood horror. Then there’d been the scent, that unique odor of death, and every nerve in his body had screamed to get her out of there before the stroke of midnight.MoreLess
Eve kissed her sisters good-bye on the stoop and then turned when they headed inside, rolling her neck from side to side with a tired-hound-dog expression.
They walked in silence. Abandoned streets echoed with the sound of their footsteps. The darkened sky glittered with the light of a trillion white jewels, like a ...glittering sea of diamonds. The night uncharacteristically fog free.
“Thanks for being there tonight, Cian,” she whispered so low he even had a hard time catching it.
He nodded and shoved his hands deep into his pockets. Tonight had been a numbing terror for him. So many bodies. Hands reaching, clamoring, clawing like some apparition of a Hollywood horror. Then there’d been the scent, that unique odor of death, and every nerve in his body had screamed to get her out of there before the stroke of midnight.MoreLess
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