Hellhound Prince of Fire (Hellhound #3) - Rue Volley Page 0,1

time, and now is not that time for you my brother, my protector, my husband.”

She stepped back and stared at him as he looked her over.

Gunner hesitated as the last of her words bothered him. It had been a very long time since she had mentioned the word ‘husband’ and it did not sit well with him.

“Did he harm you?”

She laughed and then shook her head.

“That is like asking a child if they would like to play with toys, of course he harmed me, he harms everything in his wake.”

Gunner closed his eyes and lowered his hands to his side, his fists clinched as Tercia watched him react to her words. She then stepped up and placed two hands to his face and he opened his eyes and looked into hers.

“You cannot fail her,” she whispered to him as he let the words settle into his chest. His heart beat a slow and steady rhythm, almost like a drum calling him to war. He started to move and she shook her head and moved her fingers against the skin on his cheeks.

“You need to clear your head, eat…rest, if you go now you will do nothing but give him everything he desires.”

Gunner sighed and looked past her as Dorin, Ari and Finna looked on. His obligation was not only to Halo, it was to his sister and to them. If he left in haste he would probably fail and that would be a fate worse than death.

“So what would you have me do?” he asked her as his eyes locked onto hers.

“Prepare to win,” she said as her breath came out white and started to rise into the night sky.

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I stood by the fire and watched the smoke rise up. I held my son and swayed back and forth until I heard the door unlock and open behind me. It is funny how much stronger I feel now, here in the last place I wish to be, but holding the one thing that is keeping me completely focused. I looked down at him as he stared up at me and then looked back towards the door as two women entered. They barely wore anything at all, both draped in see thru red fabric that wrapped behind their necks and down over their breasts. The fabric was held at their waists with a gold belt and then flowed downward in the middle, covering their clits, without much success at all. One walked towards me and then stopped as I tensed up and held my son to my chest. The other walked to the bed and stood there, they both had a strange feel to them, they calmed me as they both spoke in unison, eerily slowing my heart beat with each word they uttered.

“Halo, we would never harm you, we are here to help.”

Their words felt like a drug on my senses. A poison perhaps, but it caused my muscles to relax…right up until the one closest to me stepped up and reached towards my son. I held him close to me as I pivoted on one foot and kicked her square in the abdomen. She cried out as she flew across the room and hit the wall. She stuck there like some spider and hissed at me as she started to crawl up backwards and her twin flicked her tongue as her eyes turned a yellowish color. I turned and prepared to fight to my last breath, but then I heard a clapping and looked towards the door to see Lucifer standing there, grinning, as he looked me over. He snapped his fingers and the girl crawled down from the wall and across the floor on all fours resembling a spider even more now. Her partner lowered and did the same. Each stopped under one hand of his and he pet their heads as he looked down at the two of them lovingly.

“They would have done you absolutely no harm Halo,” he said as I gritted my teeth and held my son close to me. He then lifted his head and looked me over.

“You look remarkably well for just giving birth.”

“Shut up,” I said as the hatred poured out of me. He held his hands out and sighed as he could feel it. The hate pulsed through him and he moaned, deep in the back of his throat.

“Well, that was good for me, and you?”

“What do you want?” I said as I started to move from the fire and towards