Chapter 152

MALACHI 75 MINUTES BEFORE THE LIGHT GOES OUT The potency of Giorgios’s rage vibrates through the cellar, bouncing off the concrete walls. The wraith shrieks even louder than before, and I screw my eyes closed as though that will somehow make it less painful. “I know. I will do it now!” Giorgios bellows, and then he’s hauling me up by the back of my neck and dragging me to the center of the room. “Here?” The wraith screams in response. I glance down at the stone circle I’m kneeling on. It’s a part of the earth line that runs underneath the university and connects to the ruins at the mouth of Havenwood River. The pagan settlers who lived on this land before the university was here believed it to be magical, and Alexandros once told me it magnifies the demon magic he uses to protect our house. But I can honestly say I have never given it much thought. Until now, that is, when I find myself kneeling on it while Giorgios holds some evil fucking sword over my head. The whole thing, pommel to