Garden of the Gods (The Immortals Series Book 3) Read Online Free

demons now.
    Colin wanted to offer some sort of gratitude that wouldn’t have embarrassed his friend in front of Andrew and Dylan, but he didn’t have time to think of a way to thank him. Someone was walking toward them. It was human, but his features were impossible to make out from this distance. As the hunters bunched together, waiting for the figure on the horizon to get closer, Colin and Anna realized it wasn’t just anyone. Jeremy was coming to meet them.

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    Dylan recognized him at the same time. His hand gripped his dagger, and he chanced a brief glance at Colin and Anna. “It can’t be him, right?”
    Anna forced herself to look away from the young man quickly approaching them, still strikingly handsome like a young Bradley Cooper with perfectly styled auburn hair and even the perpetual five o’clock shadow Jeremy had always kept carefully groomed. There were no bony growths, no hideous fangs or goldenrod eyes. Anna even recognized the shirt Jeremy was wearing. But there was no stench either, no smell of rot and decay and death.
    “No,” Anna whispered back, because he was close enough now that he might hear them. “If they were to free him from possession, they could lose him. I know this feeling though.”
    Anna suddenly felt cold. She was wearing long sleeves and the warm sunshine had kept her comfortable only moments before. But she was so cold now her teeth were chattering.
    Colin knew why his wife recognized these sensations and she had to physically stop him from trying to attack the fallen angel who had disguised himself as Jeremy to approach this group of hunters.
    “ It may not be the same one who kidnapped me, Colin. Or maybe all three of them were there and taking turns. It doesn’t matter. You can’t fight him. He’s too powerful.”
    Jeremy stopped in front of them and Anna knew all of the hunters sensed the same unnerving feelings, the same cold and inexplicable fear she had experienced while trapped inside the camp near the Amite River. They wanted to back away from him, but they didn’t want to let on how much his presence disturbed them.
    “So Heaven found us,” he said. His eyes were fixed on Anna. She wouldn’t answer him.
    “Apparently,” Dylan said, his voice dripping with so much animosity, Anna found herself hoping he wouldn’t do anything stupid. He had suffered more loss than any of them recently, but he had to remember what they were confronting.
    “ Dylan is smart. He won’t be reckless, ” Colin assured her.
    Jeremy never looked away from Anna. The expression on his face betrayed his growing frustration. He was trying to reach her mind and couldn’t. And Anna was suddenly terrified he would give up and turn on Colin. She desperately wanted him to keep his attention on her. Demons were awfully stubborn, after all. Maybe he wouldn’t give up that easily.
    “Why show up like this?” she asked him. “Hoping we won’t kill you if you look like our friend you murdered?”
    He tilted his head and kept his hard gaze on her, and even though he smiled, the frustration he felt was still evident in his face. “What makes you think I’m not Jeremy? That I haven’t been changed again? How can you really know?”
    “Because I’ve met you before, remember? Doesn’t matter what you look like. I’d recognize you.”
    The demon’s smile faltered, but he forced it back into place. “You have some new gifts, I see.”
    “So what did it for you?” Anna pressed. He couldn’t reach her. And she hated this bastard more than anything she had ever hated before. She wanted to make him suffer the way she had, but it was impossible. But she could hope to annoy the hell out of him. “What tempted you from Heaven and made you fall?”
    “Because I don’t like working for a side that can never win.” His eyes flickered to Colin and Anna’s heart threatened to jump from her chest.
    “Bullshit,” Luca interrupted. “Hell has always been jealous because far