The Pentagram Child: Part 1 (Afterlife Saga Book 5) by Stephanie Hudson

gone too far.
    “YOU LIE!!!!” I screamed at him before letting go and charging at him like a crazed battle horse. My reasoning all fled and left a husk of a man fuelled only with the desire to kill everyone and everything in its path. It wanted its mate back! It wanted its calming solace and the other half of its soul back just as much as I did but unlike me, it had no logic in its quest to get it back!
    To get her back.
    I ran at him and at the last second instead of running him through with my blade I used what was left of my inner self and twisted my body, so my shoulder hit him square in the chest. He was once again flying backwards and travelling through the remains of the furnace. I watched as his body landed against the far wall of stone but before he could be allowed to slump down to the ground I was there at his side.
    I raised my sword to slice into his side but then caught a flash of raised steel in my side vision. My father was bringing his weapon down at my head and I made a quick decision to bring up my sword and block the blow to my head, instead of causing his body damage.
    In the seconds this all happened I also witnessed his eyes flash to their Demon side before he used his powers to cut through my blade. This gave me only a fraction of time to prevent my head from being slashed open as my free hand shot up and gripped his sword. I had to transform part of myself into my Demon as a means of protection from losing my fingers in the process.
    “You cheated.” I said stating the obvious.
    “What did you expect?” He asked laughing.
    “What you never did…My turn!” This was the only warning I gave him as I reversed his sword so that I now held the handle and the tip was left pointing at his throat. My free hand came back to his side as I held my remaining blade at his gut, ready to see what a demon King was really made of if he didn’t answer my questions.
    “NOW TELL ME!” My Demon roared at him, only my answer came from behind me.
    “I tried to tell you, Dom.” Sophia’s soft voice was a cruel music that filled the carnage of the room, giving it a gentleness that didn’t belong.
    “Let him go Dom, I asked him to do this.”
    “WHY?!” I snarled turning my head towards her.
    “Because you needed to know and you wouldn’t listen.” She reasoned.
    “Listen to what, these lies!?” It couldn’t be true…she wouldn’t…she…wouldn’t do that…would she?
    “That’s just it though brother, it’s not lies… and it’s about time you saw the truth for your own eyes.” I shook my head and only when I felt my father’s hand rest on my shoulder did I realise I must have lowered my weapons in the ultimate defeat.
    “It’s alright son, there’s still time.”
    “He’s right Dom, come with me.” Sophia said softly as though she knew how my heart was being shredded apart by a truth I had pushed Keira into.
    “Go where Sophia, back to claim what is no longer mine to claim?” I asked bitterly. She shook her head making the halo of loose dark curls bounce.
    “No brother, come back with me to Afterlife and claim what is rightfully yours to claim.” I closed my eyes at the sound of her hope and every fibre in my body hummed with tension knowing Keira was with someone else.
     
    I needed to see. I needed to witness this with my own eyes.
     
    I needed to go back to…
     
    My Afterlife.
               
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
               
     
     

Keira
     
     
    Chapter 4
    Back to Afterlife
     
     
     
    “It was over ten months ago, Keira…get a grip!” I said to myself in the mirror, after first looking round to check no-one else was in any of the cubicles. I washed my hands again in the lavish sink that one would never expect to see in a Gothic nightclub, but then again this wasn’t just any Gothic nightclub…
    This was Afterlife.
    It was the first time I had come here since it reopened back in October last year and now we