The Hollow (2 page)

"Tristan…" Aya said, moving to put a hand on his shoulder, but he jerked away.

"Is this what you are, Lady Arrow? A devil? Doomed to wander the night forever?"

"No," she shook her head. "There are parts of me that are the same, but I can teach you control."

"Control?" he spat at her. He was on his feet again, fangs bared. "I'm hungry. Every minute of every day. I'm not satisfied until I tear into human flesh. Until I feel warm blood flow through my cold, dead hands. How can you control that?"

Aya twisted away as he came for her again, his rage simmering to the surface. Any sliver of control he'd had to tell his story was gone. He had regressed into an almost animal state, like that of the ones who had changed him, and he'd fight until he couldn't fight anymore. There was only one way to deal with him and that was to deny the one thing he wanted. Blood.

She was twelve hundred years old and faster than Tristan. As he lunged, she was out of the dungeon, slamming the heavy iron door behind her, the bolt driving home with a satisfying boom. Walking up the stairs into the ruined castle, Tristan's cries of rage followed, but she paid him no heed. Either he'd learn to control himself or he would die at the end of a stake.

Whichever path he'd take was left to him to choose, but his days of stalking humans in the forest like a specter of death were over.

OTHER BOOKS BY NICOLE R. TAYLOR

The Devil's Tattoo (Devil's Tattoo #1)

The Witch Hunter Saga

The Witch Hunter (#1)

The Return (#2)

The Shadow's Son (#3)

TITLES COMING SOON…

What Remains (October 2013)

The Fire Walker (Devil's Tattoo #2) (December 2013)

The Awakening (#4 in the Witch Hunter Saga) (early 2014)

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