Demon's Vengeance The Complete - Jocelynn Drake Page 0,143

slow grin spread across my faces and I stepped close to him. “No one will remember.” I reached out my right hand toward the rows of pristine unicorns and their bodies ignited one after another. Vincent’s screams were more deafening than when I’d tortured him. He struggled, fighting to pull free of his bonds both physical and magical, but it was for nothing. I stared at him, drinking in the pain deeply etched into his pale face as he watched the black smoke billowing through a broken out skylight. The last remains of his people were reduced to ash.

His screams became heavy sobs as he hung his head. The last hope of the unicorns was gone in a cloud of greasy black smoke.

“No one will remember you,” I said softly, my voice almost a caress. “No one will remember your fight to save your people. No one will even know you ever existed.”

Vincent raised his eyes to my face and I knew I’d never forget the hatred that blazed there. I was glad.

Lightning quick, I pulled a large shard of glass from where it was pinning his wrist and plunged it straight through his heart. The unicorn gasped and stiffened in pain, and the mad light disappeared from his eyes.

As I turned away, I became aware of Missy’s hysterical screaming. Pulling the shard of glass from Vincent’s chest, I walked toward her, leaving a trail of unicorn blood behind me as it dripped from the glass. Standing before her, Zyrus stirred, overjoyed to see her bouncing between mindless rage and abject despair at the death of her companion. Her eyes were wide, and spittle and blood dripped from her lips. She tried to rise and attack me, but she couldn’t get to her feet while still wrapped in the steel rebar.

“How could you! He was beautiful! He was perfect!” she screamed at me until her voice started to become hoarse.

In the distance, I thought I could hear Trixie shouting for me. Or maybe it was Gideon. But I couldn’t focus on it. Missy was a Christmas gift just waiting to be unwrapped. Clenching the glass shard in my hand, I grabbed a chunk of her hair and wrenched her head back, holding it at an awkward angle. She could no longer move, but it didn’t stop her enraged screaming. That was good.

With the glass in my hand, I slashed across her stomach, letting blood pour forth from the massive wound. Her angry curses instantly turned to pain-filled screams that echoed off the walls of the warehouse. With a chuckle, I plunged the glass into her heart. The screams stopped with a gasp. I released her hair, letting her fall to the ground in a heap as life drained quickly out of her body.

Backpedaling from Missy, I clung to the relief and joy that Zyrus felt because there was something sick churning in my stomach. I could hear Trixie weeping softly and it was like little daggers driving straight into my heart. Unfortunately, Zyrus heard the sound as well. The temporary pleasure it got from slaughtering the last unicorn was shoved aside by a hunger for yet another kill. A pregnant elf.

I tried to clamp down on the demon, but the longer it was roaming free within me, the more destruction it caused, the stronger it became so that it was nearly impossible to hold my position. Stealing a glance at Trixie, I was nearly ripped to shreds by fear when I saw that she was slowly approaching me.

“No,” I rasped, falling backward to my ass just so that I couldn’t walk toward her. “Get out of here.”

“Gage . . .”

“Gideon, get her out of here!” I roared with more force as I vainly struggled to think of a way to get Zyrus out of me. If she came too close, if she touched me, I was going to kill her and I wouldn’t be able to stop myself. The demon was pooling all of its energy toward that one mindless goal.

She wants to leave you. She will leave you and take your child.

“She needs to leave me,” I groaned. I clutched my head with both my hands, wishing I could rip my skull open just so I could pull Zyrus out of my brain. Pain lanced through me as the demon screamed and slashed holes into my soul. “It’s not safe. She needs to leave.” I kept repeating the words while squeezing my eyes shut, hoping that if I heard