The Ghost and the Darkness Volume 2 (Fallocaust, #3)

by Quil Carter

She wasn’t scared of strangers at all, the kids here were either little morons or perhaps it was just that safe here.

Though the ravers’ health plan wasn’t that great, the back of my head had been healing and hadn’t gotten infected.

He held up a hand and the corners of his mouth raised in a smile. “I don’t care… I fucked him bloody in the adjacent room as soon as you passed out, so we can just call it a threesome.”

“So you can make like a dozen me’s if you wanted to?” “I would never punish the world so.” I snorted but it turned into a laugh. Elish smiled.

Everything was just… disgusting, and disgusting by my standards was really fucking rank.

“Do you regret doing it?” I didn’t know why I was asking that. “Yes, it was an error in judgment,” Elish said back to me. “He suffers still from abandonment issues and many other problems I am still having to help him through.” “Yeah, he’s pretty fucked in the head.” Elish gave me a cold look. “I could say the same for yours.” “I never denied it.” I shrugged. “Though chimeras are prone to acting like whackjobs, unfortunately mine doesn’t have an excuse.” Funny enough, Elish chuckled. “He has quite the excuse.”

“He was a demon that walks on earth. A man with yellow eyes and pointed fangs. He’s commanding over thirty of them I think.” Elish’s eyes widened, and the hammering in my heart travelled up to my head. I stared. I stared until I couldn’t take it anymore. I burst out laughing, just as Elish put his hand on his forehead and swore.

“You are Silas, you blond little dumbfuck,” Perish snapped. “I remember you, I remember what you did. How could we forget? We said the radiation would stop the computers that were controlling the missiles, but now look at where we are. Look at what we did!”

Garrett told me I was safe here but I don’t think he was taking into account that I was an idiot.

Elish shook his head beside me. “He reminds me of Drake… a lot.” He looked down at the dog. “He’s big enough now I could fucking ride him,” I said. And was tempted to do just that, his head almost came up to my chest now. “Yes, it’s usually the opposite when with Drake,” Elish replied casually.

The dark chimera started walking again. “This would be a great time for you to reveal to me that Killian is a chimera and that this radiation won’t affect him.” Killian a chimera? That would be one horrible chimera. Discount bin quality.

“There is no relationship!” I snapped. I heard chuckling behind me and I whirled around wanting to punch the silver-haired one, fucking Mr. Chuckles over there, right in the mouth.

Without a thought, I tossed the knapsack down the crater, watching with grim pleasure as the brown bag hit the bottom with a satisfying thunk. A moment later, my own spit joined it (that was for spitting on Elish) and I turned and got back on the quad. “I won’t even ask,” Silas said from behind me. “Just like I won’t ask why you’re on a legion quad, Raven.”

I was the Reaper and he was the Ghost, and his soul was long overdue for collection.