SHADOW AND WRATH (THE UNDESIRABLES #1) BY PENN CASSIDY – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Penn Cassidy
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Senka
The night air was thick with the stench of death as it wrapped around
me like a heavy cloak. Cold tendrils of power seeped from somewhere
deep inside me, slithering to the surface with a single thought.
Undulating darkness danced along the length of my outstretched fingers.
An old man lay in his bed, unaware that he was about to take his final
breath. There was a woman snoring deeply next to him, her hair in a bonnet
and a sleeping mask pulled tightly over her eyes. She wouldn’t hear a thing,
even if I did make a sound.
Which I didn’t.
Ever.
Observing my mark gave me a thrill of anticipation that felt like
butterflies swirling in my gut. Tilting my head, I allowed myself a moment
to catalog everything about him.
Fat cheeks, gray hair, and a bulbous nose with little hairs that stuck out
of his nostrils like spider legs. Sixty-something years had not been kind to
the sleeping man.
This death was long overdue. I would have done it in my free time if it
weren’t for the fact that I wouldn’t receive payment. Deaths had to be
natural. Everyone had their time, and I was just the one who ensured it
happened as painlessly as possible.
Deathbringers were rare, so I was constantly busy. People died in this
city all the time. I only had to worry about the ones Merikh claimed for
herself. I never understood how the death goddess chose which souls she
wanted, and which ones would be released to eventually be reborn again,
but it wasn’t my job to question the gods, only to carry out their wishes.
Cross wouldn’t have been too concerned if I had decided to take the man
before his designated time, but he would relish the opportunity to withhold
payment just to prove a point. The goddess had been very clear about the
timing of each death she demanded, and Cross despised letting her down.
Two weeks of stalking this disgusting waste of breath was enough, and
I’d finally gotten the order to complete the death.
I unleashed my poisonous shadows with a single thought. Dark veins of
shadow writhed beneath my skin, funneling down toward my wrists and my
fingers. Tendrils of darkness poured from me like ink, latching onto the
man’s skin like a parasite seeking sustenance.
His breathing became labored, and his heart rate slowed to an eerie
crawl. It was the loudest sound in the room, and oddly enough, I found it
beautiful. The moments right before a person’s life was snuffed out for that
final time were indescribably ominous, and yet still beautiful.
Being a deathbringer meant that I was constantly surrounded by death. I
saw the beauty that lay in the moment of a person’s final moments, but I
also recognized the harsh reality of its injustice.
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