Free Silverblood Demons (Daughters of Darkness Book 1) by Turhan

and hugging you tight when you need it most.”
    “Can I ask you a question Coral?” Elektra asked.
    “Sure, but I’m not going to give you my cookie recipe.”
    Elektra was trying to think of something that would explain a reason for us wanting to return. “I’d like to know if you guys ever had cheesecake, and if we come back in a couple of days do you think you’d like to take a trip to our house to try some?”
    Amber had walked in with Jade and between them holding their hands was a little girl, her hair is black, she has pony tails with small feathers hanging from them and is wearing a princess tiara that seems to have at least fifty jewels in it, were they real ?
    Letting go of their hands she ran over to Coral and hid behind her. She was shyly peeking at us but Coral was able to coax her out. “Davina, look, Kira has the same color eye as you do.”
    Kira whispered to me, “Kylar, she’s too old to be Dav i－ ”
    “Damn, I forgot to tell you, all the girls have aged three times faster, I’ll explain it later.”
    Kira was shaken by Davina’s appearance but managed to say, “I have something,” She pulled at the chain around her neck and unclasped it, removing the silver ring I had seen back at her cabin. “I brought it from a faraway place, would you like to try it on?”
    It was enough to get Davina to walk out from behind Coral and over to Kira.
    “But before I give it to you, I just need the biggest hug ever, can you do that for me, please?”
    Kira had gotten down on her knees to be at eye level with her daughter, and after a brief pause, Davina looked up at Coral who urged her to go ahead She put both her arms around Kira and gave her the hug every fiber of her body had been waiting more than a year to feel.
    With her eyes beginning to show signs of a mother’s emotions, but holding back any tears that were trying to form, she slid the silver ring onto Davina’s little pinkie finger. Davina finally spoke. “Why did you bring this for me?” Kira is so overwhelmed that Elektra had to break the tension. “Hey I’m getting a little jealous now, how about a hug for me too?”
    None of us had a way of telling exactly how long we had been talking, and it was a beautiful but heart wrenching moment, we all knew that in the next couple of minutes we would have to leave them all behind. What twisted evil could do this to us?
    Sin-dy was next to me and whispered. “It’s time. We need to make our excuses to leave.” I nodded in agreement and could see furtive looks coming from Elektra and Kira.
    “Amber, could you do me a favor? I just need to speak with you, real quick,” Elektra led Amber back into the room that she had brought Davina out from earlier.
    While she was gone we took the next couple of minutes and said our goodbyes to each other, but despite trying to seem as though our visit was casual, Coral began to look a bit anxious, like she knew there was more going on. I think there were too many new things for her to process in her mind. Her resident Tutella had gone, I am a male, Elektra was speaking with Amber, and there was just a sense of things not being right.
    “Do you promise to come back?” Jade asked. She looked as though she also sensed things were weird.
    “Of course we’re coming back.” I walked over to her and she seemed to connect with me. “I feel like I know you,” she said. “Why is that?”
    “Maybe because you do, but I promise I’ll tell you more next time, just give us a couple of days, we’ll be back. I think Elektra is filling Amber in on what we’ll be doing, can you trust me?”
    Before she could answer me Elektra walked back in with Amber who seemed stunned.
    “We’re leaving right now,” said Elektra. “Amber’s going to fill you girls in, on what’s happening until we come back.”
    “Let’s go!” Sin-dy said, with urgency in her voice.
    As we turned and made our way out the door and into the still of the night, Jade and Amber stood