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This is a direct sequel to "Hell's Gate". Read that series first if you wish to read this.
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Thy Kingdom Come
Chapter One: Aurora
{Motel Room; Late Evening}
Aurora opened her eyes slowly, scared at what she might see. She remembered very little before she had mysteriously blacked out, but one image still burned hotly into her mind; two men, naked from the waist up had grabbed her right after she had rammed her car into some woman who had been standing in the middle of the road.
It had all happened so quickly, and although Aurora knew she had not sustained any head trauma, she had still managed to conk out. Hopefully she had not fainted; her mother would never let her live down swooning. If she lived at all. For all she knew, she was five minutes away from bloody murder.
"Are you awake?" a deep, male's voice said suddenly from her right.
Aurora's eyes snapped all the way open and she turned toward the voice, which came from a large, bald man sitting in a chair in front of a small desk. Seeing the man sitting there made Aurora suddenly realize that she too was in a chair, except her arms were being held behind it by a rope that softly dug into her wrists, binding her hands together and preventing her from moving.
Aurora nodded in response to the question, and flicked her eyes fervently around her surroundings. She was thankfully fully aware, and it was easy to ascertain that she was in a motel room. In addition to the small desk and chairs, a TV stand stood closed in front of her, and she could see the side of a mattress out of the corner of her eye, meaning that the bed was behind her.
The man spoke again, "Do you know your name?"
"Aurora," she answered, already having decided to cooperate; she had seen enough crime shows to know there was no use arguing with kidnappers. Especially ones as large and powerful-looking as this one was.
"Unique name," the man said, standing. Chains rattled from the pockets of his black pants and muscles bunched beneath the tight black t-shirt he wore over his chest. He was about six feet tall standing, and wore dark sunglasses that hid his eyes from Aurora's view. Definitely intimidating.
"My mother's a bit of a hippy," Aurora admitted, watching her captor closely as he pulled his chair closer to her, "She doesn't ever do anything conventionally."
The man nodded, placing his chair a foot from Aurora's and sitting back down, "I can admire that."
"So is there a reason I'm tied up?"
Smiling, the man shrugged, "You just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Do you remember anything?"
Aurora searched her memory for a good answer, "After I hit that woman, I remember getting out of the car. She stood up, which was really confusing, and then I started getting a little hysterical. Then I saw two very large men, I think you were one of them, come out of nowhere, which made me even more hysterical. And then nothing; I blacked out. Did I hit my head?"
The man shook his head, "Nope."
"Huh, I didn't think so," Aurora frowned, and then asked after a pause, "What's your name?"
"Wraith," the man said.
"Unusual names abound," Aurora noted.
"That they do."
"Are you going to let me go, Wraith?"
"Not right yet. But I will untie you if you'd like."
"That would be nice."
Wraith stood and began working on the rope that bound her wrists. "It's a shame," he mused as he worked, "I did enjoy seeing you tied up like this."
Aurora blushed and pulled her hands to her lap once she felt the rope fall away, "What's that supposed to mean?"
Wraith sat back down in his chair and then leaned in close. She could see nothing behind his glasses, but could feel his eyes bore into her's intensely, "I mean you are very beautiful, for a human, and were even more so bound to that chair."
Blushing, Aurora looked down at her lap, then brought her eyes back level with Wraith's as something registered, "What do you mean, 'for a human'?"
Reaching up, Wraith gripped his sunglasses and pulled them off. Underneath them, his eyes were pitch-black with no whites or irises; just pools of pure darkness.
"Holy shit!" Aurora gasped, "Are those real?"
Wraith nodded.
"So...what are you? A vampire?"
"Ha!" Wraith barked, "They, my lovely captive, do not exist. I am a demon."
Aurora didn't know what to believe. On one hand, the man did have a very demon-like demeanor, if there was such a thing, and solid black eyes. On the other hand...demons probably did not exist. She most likely had been kidnapped by a crazy man, which meant no amount of cooperation or conversation would see her out alive.
"Prove it," Aurora demanded, trying to keep her voice calm. Might as well give him a chance...
"Fine," Wraith shrugged and stood again, pulling off his t-shirt.