Chapter four
The Demon Called Thomas
Sterling - Pt. 4
I brought my fist to my mouth. The sheer shock that Elijah was still alive quickly dissipated into pure joy. I wasn’t sure how, but my apprentice lived. He’d escaped Satan’s wrath. Perhaps God had shielded him. I attempted to hurry across the floor, but Catherine caught my tunic as she shook her head frantically. “No, don’t go. What if the devil is still out there?”
Smoothing my hand over where her fingers knotted in my clothes, I smiled. “It’s alright. It’s just Elijah. And if the devil is still out there, I won’t let him hurt you.”
She didn’t want to release me, but she did. I opened the hidden panel and popped my head out of the cupboard, just in time to see my apprentice about to leave the dining hall. “Elijah,” I hissed. I bec
