The Dark City Chronicles ⁓ Book One
The creatures of evil won't stand a chance! The Demon's Reprisal is an action-packed novel with spicy romance, seductive vampires, dark humor, budding love, and the everlasting bonds of friendship.
After the death...
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It's an unusually cool morning for this time of year. The kitchen's meagre window's cream-coloured blinds blow inward with every gust of the cool breeze that rustles through the trees that can be seen through the protective window screen not far off. Occasionally, the wooden rooster that sits atop the sill above the basin sink clacks as a particularly strong flurry of wind makes the carved animal head fall forward and bob with every gust.
The pleasant smell of roasted coffee and toasted bread hangs in the air.
Through the open doorway, the television in the sitting room is at a perfect angle to be seen from the kitchen, with the morning news playing across the screen at a low volume.
And there's a tense argument that's happening across the square pine table.
It all makes for quite a delightful morning.
Reid keeps the rim of his coffee posed against his lips and simply watches the drama unfold from his place in the middle, as he's taken the chair on the lengthwise edge of the table.
"Shut up," Kenneth grumbles. He bites into his toast angrily.
Hannah's face scrunches. "He abandoned me. I'm allowed to have my opinions on that, thank you very much. You don't have to be such an asshole about it."
Reid sips his coffee. It's grown cold. He doesn't lower the cup, looking over the rim and skirting his eyes towards whomever's speaking.
It's ironic because Kenneth and Hannah are both wrong; Hannah can't see that Kenneth is defensive because she's speaking ill about his father, and Kenneth can't see that Hannah's defensive because he's defending her withdrawn father.
