Sentinal's Tear (Book #1 in Requiem Series) [formally titled Lacrimosa]

Chapter 20

Aydan

The quad bustles with activity. Lori, looking more dead than alive, is wheeled off campus. The angels, Nesy's friends, follow, guarding over the young girl. Do they know who she is? What she is?

Anger ripples through me, rustling my wings. He did it; he really did it. No! I scream through the silence in my thoughts. No!

Azza's laugh fills me as he taunts Nesy. "You'd better keep a close watch on her, little angel. I have big plans for her. And Aydan."

Nesy screams in frustration, leaving campus. She disappears into the endless throng of onlookers. She'll never believe that I had nothing to do with this. Never see me as anything other than her target, Azza's apprentice. The UnHoly.

And she shouldn't. Not now.

I try to picture a life without Azza and his crazy obsessions. One without the Beast urging me to feed.

Only me and Nesy

—nothing more than a fantasy.

Our love forever strong

—and a lie.

No violence, no Azza

—there will never be "no Azza", not for you.

I need to pretend it can happen. Pretend I'm not a killer.

Lies, lies, lies.

My stomach clenches as hunger again fills my body, never-ending hunger that serves as a reminder . . .

There's no way out.