The Demon’s Discovery by L. Alexander EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: L. Alexander
- Language: English
- Genre: Paranormal Demons & Devils Romance
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Greta
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June
Lightning flashed brutally through the gray sky, striking a tree close
enough I could smell the heated ozone. Spatters of rain woke me from
a brief nap, the peals of rolling thunder and fierce lightning that chased
after them made my heart race.
I’d come out to the hedge maze to enjoy the last hour of the evening sun
after helping with the dinner preparations. Yet another prospective job had
fallen through thanks to a series of truly unfortunate events involving me
breaking several wineglasses during my trial meeting, so clearing my head
had been much needed. Unfortunately, I’d only gotten halfway through
before exhaustion had forced me to sit … and that had ended in an
unexpected nap.
Something dark flashed along the edge of my vision, and I spun to find
the cause. It wasn’t unheard of for creatures of one nature or another to find
their way into the hedge, but what I’d seen was too tall to be anything other
than human.
“Hello?”
The only response was more thunder and the wind blowing through the
tangled branches of the hedge in an eerie howl that was so much like
laughter it made my skin crawl. Another bright flash of lightning lit up the
sky, illuminating the whole center of the hedge maze. Deciding perhaps my
imagination was running a little wild because of my badly timed nap, I tried
to stand and fell instead, one leg still tingly from how I’d been lying.
My rear end hit the grass, and I managed to scrape my shoulder along
the rough edge of the concrete bench as I went. I watched in awe as the
wide trunk split in half, branches crashing to the ground as fire consumed
the tree from the inside out. Bark hissed and popped while black-andorange embers drifted down to the ground. As the rain became heavy, fat
drops, I was shocked out of staring and scrambled to get to my feet, to clean
up the failed experiment I’d left in progress on my worktable.
Thunder clapped loud enough to leave my ears ringing, and I jumped,
the instinct to duck unavoidable. My hand bumped a vial of ammonium,
sending a splash of it careening into another dish. Tiny splatters of acid hit
my skin, making me hiss as they stung and burned.
The combination also
caused a plume of acrid smoke, which no amount of waving could disperse
before it absorbed into my clothing and clung to my skin.
“Wonderful,” I grumbled, using one of the old cast-off kitchen towels to
wipe at my stinging hand before I mopped up the rest of the mess. I dipped
the smoldering linen in the fountain just in case, then left it to hang off one
of the stones.
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