Shivers went down my back, hearing the promise in his words. There had been no other consideration. Kellan was going to destroy them all, even if I didn’t join in. As we got outside, I smelled a whiff of the demons and my stomach turned over, but then something came alive in me. I’d wanted their blood before, but had gotten sick in the next moment. That was not going to happen this time. I wasn’t going to be running to vomit anymore.
Kellan started forward, and I saw the same black cloak come over him that had happened in the kitchen. I wasn’t sure what it was, but something shimmied over me, too. I watched, speechless, as something glided over my skin, translucent to my eyes. It felt like armor, but weighed like nothing, like air.
Whatever it was, I felt protected. I felt like I could w
