Chapter 16 : Halloween Horrors

Daelic peers around me to where Eva is rooted to her spot in the doorway. Her robe is wrapped tightly around her body with her hair folded up in a towel on top of her head. Her face is red from the heat of the shower but there’s a growing spotchiness crawling up her neck the longer she stares at us.

I try to consider what she sees, me with a demon and a glowing portal to Hell behind us. It pulsates inside of the room steadily like a beating drum. Thrumming through my chest and spending a chill down my spine from the dark magic emitting from it.

For all intents and purposes, this is an actual nightmare in the making.

“Eva,” I clasp my hands together. Stepping between them both, I use my body as a shield until I vaguely realize he’s much taller than me. “This is Daelic. One of Sol’s—”

“Why is there a demon in my dorm, Narine?!”