Page 60 of Possess Us
A buzzer sounds, and the gate opens.
When we drive over the threshold, I sit up straight, my entire body suddenly stiff and on high alert.
True, I’m with three powerful demons. But Xion has manipulated and controlled demons for almost a hundred years. Part of me thinks the devil himself would fall for his traps.
Pain’s hand grips mine, steadying the tremble wracking through my body.
‘We’ve got you,’ he says. ‘You could not be safer.’
‘I’m safe with three demons I set free from Hell, as we face a man who has made his wealth through a demonic cult as he tortured girls like me.’ I laugh, shaking my head and looking out the window at the grand house. ‘There’s a sentence I never thought I would say.’
‘If you betray us to that fucker, we will kill you,’ Fear tells me.
As he does, a cold wave of fear ripples over me. One he’s created. Not from his threat. But one he’s just manifested from nothing.
‘How would I betray you? You’re powerful demons.’
The intense feeling of fear engulfs me, darkening my vision and making it impossible to breathe. ‘And don’t you forget it.’
‘Enough!’ Lust smacks his arm, frowning at him. ‘We’re free because of her. Now we need her free of him.’
The way they stare at one another, as though sharing an unspoken conversation, makes me uneasy.
The sensation disappears as quickly as it came.
‘Do you feel that?’ Fear asks.
‘What?’ Lust replies.
‘My fear. Do you feel it?’
‘You haven’t just stopped being an ass hole?’
He shakes his head.
‘Shit. The house is protected.’ Fear turns in his seat, looking out the back window at the now sealed gate. ‘There’s an anti-demon protection seal on the property.’
‘What does that mean?’ I ask, no longer needing his fear to create the visceral sense of dread now gripping me. ‘Why wouldn’t he want you in his house? Xion loves demons.’
‘Not when he has no control over us,’ Lust says. ‘We have no powers when the sigil is in place.’ He looks back at me. ‘We can’t protect her as well as we should.’
‘If we don’t complete the deal by sunrise, we all return to Hell,’ Pain reminds him. ‘Her included. And you know as well as I do that Lucifer would love to get his hands on a Conduit. Especially one that betrayed him and set three of his demons free. We don’t leave until Xion’s life is ended.’
The sound of a roaring engine becomes deafening. We look to the right, just in time to see an armoured truck heading straight for us.
Pain throws himself over me, wrapping his arms around me just before we’re rammed.
Grinding metal and screeching tyres are the last things I hear before everything goes black.
Chapter 15
Willow
My ears are filled with a painfully high-pitched ringing, and as I blink open my eyes, the agony of what’s just happened registers.
Yep. A massive truck just slammed into the side of the car and sent us flying. We rolled several times before I blacked out. Now, I’m lying on the roof, still inside the vehicle, surrounded by broken glass.
With my next blink, I’m being pulled from the window by my ankles and into the freezing cold rain. I’m limp, looking up at the sky as pain, not the sexy demon bastard, but very real pain, makes me unable to move or even speak.
