Shadow Reaper (Shadowlands Series) (35 page)

BOOK: Shadow Reaper (Shadowlands Series)
2.42Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub

I was a Shadow Eater and I was dying.

Please . . . I need you.

The darkness at the edge of my vision tunnelled in, and I felt myself slipping away.

There was a crash, a scream, commotion that would have had me sitting up if I’d had the strength.

I felt myself being lifted. I was flying with the breeze on my face. I was free.

***

“I’m not a monster . . . not a monster.”

“No, Ashling, you’re not.”

I opened my eyes to see Avery looking down on me.

“What happened?”

“You almost died.”

“Is that all?”

He pressed his lips together to hide a smile that sparkled in his eyes. “We knew returning would affect you negatively in some way but. I’m sorry for what you were forced to endure. However, it may have come about, you’re one of us now, and a Shadowlander cannot survive on the other side of the Cusp. You are bigger than they are, more complex, more powerful than their human minds can comprehend, so they perceive you the only way they can; as a monster.”

I pushed myself up into sitting position. I was in my new room, the one that connected to his.

“How . . . how did I get out?”

Avery’s lips twisted in a dry smile. “My hermitic brother Daemon. He sensed you were in trouble.”

The commotion and the screams now made sense. If they saw me as a monster, Mother only knows what they would have seen when they looked at Daemon.

Served them right, the fuckers!

“Ashling?”

I didn’t mean that, of course. It wasn’t their fault.

Wasn’t it? You took them food and gave them hope, and they tried to kill you!

It was the not-me voice again.

I rubbed my temples. There was something else. Something important I needed to do.

“Ashling? When you were in and out of conscious you kept calling out for someone.”

“Huh?”

“Ashling, who is Clay?”

Oh, fuck! “Clay! I have to find my brother!”

 

 

COMING SOON!

Why not check out other books by Amos Cassidy while you wait? Turn the page and take your pick.

 

 

Also by Amos Cassidy
The Crimson Series

FREE on AMAZON

 

FREE EBOOK

when you join Amos Cassidy’s Newsletter mailing list.

Click the image and grab your free novella.

 

Pendragon Chronicles

 

Other novels

Novellas
Tales from Beyond the Veil

 

Other books

Ghost Soldier by Elaine Marie Alphin
Life After Taylah by Bella Jewel
Territory by Bull, Emma
A Stained White Radiance by James Lee Burke
Forty Stories by Anton Chekhov
Tomorrow We Die by Shawn Grady
Things Unsaid: A Novel by Diana Y. Paul