Demon Hunters 3: Tainted (Stand Alone Series) (Demon Hunters.) Read Online Free Page A

insignificant in comparison.”
    Coldness seeped into her. She held herself rigid, refusing to give into the trembling that wanted to overtake her. “I suppose it’ll be up to me to figure it out since you’ve already failed at dealing with him.”
    “Don’t push it, little girl.”
    “That isn’t my name.”
    “I don’t care what you’re called. Eventually I’ll find a way to break this bond.”
    “My name is Cassidy.”
    “Well Cassidy, you better start crying and babbling about hooded men because the police will arrive shortly.”
    “What?” She glanced behind him, no sound or movement giving truth to his words.
    “You didn’t expect all this power that’s been released would go unnoticed, did you? Hold out your hands so I can bind them.”
    She saw that somehow, while her attention had been on the shadows behind him, the demon had donned a mask and now held a length of rope. “Why?”
    “Because you don’t want to go to jail over this.”
    She reluctantly held out her hands, her eyes falling on a black line with a touch of red in it that snaked around her left wrist. She frowned. How had that happened? However it had happened, heat flared in it while Remedy’s hands were on her.
    Once her wrists were bound, the demon ran a thumb over the line around her wrist. It wrapped around three times in a continuous, straight line. “Demon mark. Did you think you could do this without being tainted somehow? Now give me some of your blood. You left me with very little power to complete your request since you stole my sacrifice. Few people realise that for us the true power comes from when we make the kill.”
    She wasn’t sure how this all worked, but there was no way she was going to let him get the upper hand in their forced partnership. “Give me some of yours first. I’m not your lackey either. We’re partners.”
    The demon chuckled. “Don’t forget you asked for this.” A drop of blood appeared on his forefinger, as if it welled up from the pores of his skin.
    Cassidy hardly had time to begin worrying before the finger was pressed against her lips, blood seeping into her mouth. She gasped as she pushed him away with her bound hands. Fire coursed through her. She barely managed to stand upright, reminding herself over and over again that he couldn’t kill her. Not without killing himself. When she could breathe again, she met his eyes. “I have nothing to draw blood with.”
    He reached down and pulled the knife from her father, pressing the point to her fingertip, his eyes holding hers the entire time. He let the knife drop to the ground and brought her finger to his lips. The flames in his eyes flared.
    Cassidy shuddered, her eyes still caught in his. Her wrist burned and a sharp pain travelled through her body. She clenched her teeth, refusing to show any pain. The moment he relaxed his grip on her hand, she pulled away from him. “Now what?”
    “You will throw yourself against your father the moment the police burst through the door. Sob and beg and do all those pathetic things humans do. I will race from the building and when the police ask, tell them there were three masked men that climbed into your car when you and your father stopped at street lights. They had a gun and made you drive here.”
    “I can’t do that. I can’t touch him.” Not after having plunged a knife into him.
    “You are splattered with his blood. You will do this.” He reached out and ran a finger down the side of her face. “Rest here against him. Then hold him so your chest is against his wounds. You will mask the evidence. Do you understand?”
    She could only nod. A crash in the darkness behind the demon drew her attention. She gasped as he pushed her to the ground and raced off.
    “Stop! Police!”
    She had never heard two more beautiful words in her life. She was safe. Safe. But her father wasn’t. Her body trembled as she pressed her cheek against him. She knew it had been a bad idea. The moment she