All Chapters of The Shadow Pact : Chapter 1 - Chapter 6

Noah’s POV Beep… beep… Beeeeeeeeeeep. “For the love of all that’s holy, Jamie, shut that thing up before they sedate me instead of you.” I muttered low, sharp, and tired. Jamie burst into wheezy, uncontrollable laughter, shaking the bed, while every single patient and nurse in the ward turned their heads to look at us.One woman looked three seconds away from calling security. Fantastic. I wanted the ground to open up and swallow me whole. Jamie only laughed harder at my mortified face, the fucker. “Cut it out, Jamie, or I’ll never be able to show my face here again.” “Good,” he said, still chuckling. “Then you’ll finally stay home and sleep like a normal human being.” I sighed. “We’ve talked about this. I’m fine. You’re the one actually hooked to machines, not me. I’m supposed to take care of you.”He smiled, soft and infuriatingly calm. “Yeah, but if you blackout from exhaustion, how are you supposed to take care of me? Counterproductive isn’t it?” I rubbed my face and gave

Noah’s POVI stared at the tall Black man in front of me, disgust was written across his face in block letters, my mouth open, eyes burning, and a scream crawled up my throat, ready to burst.“Scream,” he said, voice low and deadly, “and I’ll make sure you never make another sound again for as long as you live.”My mouth snapped shut. Fear slithered up from my toes to my chest and wrapped around my throat. Tears blurred my vision. I should have screamed, raised an alarm, done something, but I couldn’t. Something about him pressed down on me, heavy and suffocating. Whatever it was, it didn’t feel human.He sighed, rubbing his brow like I was the inconvenience here, then started toward me. I scrambled backward, heart pounding. Every step he took, I took five. He stopped, groaned and vanished.My breath hitched. He just… disappeared. I blinked hard, rubbed my eyes, stared at the empty space he’d occupied. Nothing.Then I turned my head and nearly passed out again. He was crouched right b

Noah’s POVThe sound of the bus screeching to a halt in front of me snapped me out of my daze.Beside me, Kael made a small, very undignified squeak, mouth falling open.Yeah.Definitely his first time seeing a bus.I was pretty sure he would’ve walked right up and examined every inch of the thing like a museum curator inspecting a newly unearthed artifact if I hadn’t grabbed his sleeve and yanked him back.“What is this metal construction?” he demanded, eyes wide.“There are humans inside? Is it a public carriage? Is it alive? What’s it called? A car? A taxi? Answer me, goddammit!”I sighed and rubbed my brow as the relentless assault of questions continued, the Lord-knows-how-old demon poking me like an overexcited preschooler.“It’s called a bus,” I said flatly. “And get in before it leaves.”“The mighty oracle finally answers,” he grumbled, stepping onto the bus and then promptly freezing, unsure what to do next.I had to physically drag the demon to a seat.Quite embarrassingly,