Chapter Seventeen Rahma’s answer left Jonathan speechless, unsure if he’d heard correctly. But from how the room fell silent, it’d caught ev

Chapter Sixteen “Keep pacing like that, and you’ll wear a hole in Ash’s floor.”  Jonathan glanced up from the circular path he had walked ar

Chapter Fifteen When Teddy was six, he killed his first target. He still remembered the fear that hadn’t been trained out of him, too young

Chapter Fourteen The silence that filled the bar after Elizabeth’s departure echoed in Jonathan’s chest. Something inside him scratched at h

Chapter Thirteen “So you two are even more annoying than before.”  Elizabeth sighed at Teddy’s snarky comment aimed at Jaiden and Kyra. Whil

Chapter Twelve A demon like Leon rarely met someone who made his skin crawl. While sitting at the top of the native species food chain, he n

Chapter Eleven Jonathan woke up with the sun, though none of its warmth passed through the window. He sat in the heavy silence of the recove

Chapter Ten “Is that cocktail ready? I’m gonna die from thirst.”  Leon arched an eyebrow at the fairy, no taller than his chest, sitting at

Chapter Nine Time at Test Your Luck never felt linear to Elizabeth. She wondered if Ash charmed the place so patrons would stay longer and s