Page 65 of Defying the Relic Hunter

“He has, but I’m a hybrid. It’s different for us. Why do you think we guard our females so carefully?”

Horror knotted my stomach. I did take unnecessary risks. Always had. That stopped now. Ethan was going to live forever. “I’m not dying, and neither are you.” I smacked his chest. “Got it?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

“I’m going to be a bad ass Coletti and the Bjarke will run screaming when they see me.”

A smile curved Ethan’s mouth. “Have I told you how much I love you?”

“Not today.” I climbed up on a boulder and looked Ethan dead in the eye. “All my life, I have been waiting for you. You fill the hole in my heart. You give me hope.” I leaned over and kissed him. “I would have found you even if it took a hundred lifetimes. I will love you to the end of time.”

Ethan pulled me into his arms. “Till eternity ends.” His mouth closed over mine in an elemental claiming.

Chapter Seventeen

The temperature dropped drastically, and a snow flurry erupted around us.

“Enough children. The enemy draws near.”

Ethan broke our kiss. “What the hell?”

“Welcome to my world.” I looked over Ethan’s shoulder. Granny Annabel was decked out in Aztec armor.“What enemy?”

She clanked over.“The alien asshole still lives.”

“The fire didn’t destroy it?”

“No, it freed it.”

“Crap.”

Ethan put me down.“Do you know what it is?”

“He calls himself Asmoday. He claims to be a demon from the Ninth Circle of Hell. He has come for the jade snake. Its magic will allow him to regain his true form.”

“Which is?”I prompted.

“Katanic. Asmoday is also quite mad,”Granny warned.

“And it just keeps getting better and better. Is Asmoday ectoplasm or is he pure energy?”

“Neither and both,”Granny replied.

“Huh?”

“Asmoday was dying when he touched the sphere. It changed him.”

Every inch a Coletti Warlord, Ethan demanded,“How did it change him?”

“He is neither dead nor alive.”

I threw up my hands in disgust.“Well, that’s as clear as mud. Do you know how to kill him?”

“I do not.”

“We’re screwed.”

“Maybe not, but we definitely need help.”Ethan reached out mentally.“Adan, do you know a Katanic by the name of Asmoday?”

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