“Until my whole world melted in death and betrayal, and burned dark around me from the bright flames of one body on fire.Gae’s voice was a quake of power, surging through me so her words repeated furiously: Go! Go! Go!I remembered Dad screaming.Remembered being afraid.Hiding.“Go!”“Move, Calum!” I shouted, the words barely slicing through the air in time. I shoved Gae’s dagger up my sleeve. “Run!”I heard a crunch behind me, bone against rock.Someone else was gone. Dead.Please let it be Marcus, I ...thought as my legs pushed me forward, away. I grabbed Calum’s shirt and pulled. Please let Morphis be gone.Marcus.He had been my family when I had none, and my world when mine unraveled. My father when I could look to no one else, trust no one else.And now he stood as a man possessed by a demon; Morphis, the dream-eating demon banished from Hell itself. Now Marcus’ soul was nothing but dust, a cold bundle of ash in his heart that beat as dark as death; that’s what they did. Morphis wouldn’t stop until he stole every soul in sight, eating the helpless dreams of innocents in the name of the Orieno.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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