“What’s wrong?”Ĭolor drains from his face, and I watch in slow motion as blood spills from his lips and his body turns limp in front of me.

“I-” Something sharp sticks to my chest, over my breast, and I lean backward, searching Preacher’s eyes. Him coming into my life was a savior I never knew I needed, but would he be enough? Without being me, would he still be enough? And it’s not that he’s a bad person, because he most definitely is not. I want to say yes, but truthfully it’s not. As soon as he’s right in front of me, his finger pressed to my lip, he whispers, “I’ll love you forever.

His widens, and the sun beaming through the stained glass in the cathedral room hits the colors of his hair. “Tu vas bien, bébé ?”Ī smile spreads over my face when I see him. His blond hair flops to the side when his eyes meet mine. His footsteps become clearer as he rounds the high concrete archway into the dining room. I sit at the head of the table with my eyes on the abundance of food that is laid out in front of me. “Meraki, venez ici!” I swirl my wine around the glass goblet and watch as the red liquid stains the clean areas. The Preacher is a force, but all forces can be controlled, and that’s exactly what I plan to do with this one. Because the devil you know knows exactly how to present himself into something he’s not. The devil you know over the devil you don’t, right? I thought I knew who he was-I think everyone thought they did-but what I got was a savage with a liking to the taste of my blood. For something much more sinister than that. Niko Davis was a monster with the things he wanted in life, and unfortunately due to my current circumstances, I fell under that. I married the preacher to run from the Antichrist. **Antichrist is not a retelling of Hunchback of Notre Dame, there are slight nods here and there toward the original tale.

Please check triggers if think you may need to. It started with a bond that destroyed everyone around them… …it ends with blood. So when he rips away the walls she built around herself with his bare teeth, the secrets that she has so fiercely hidden away all of these years suddenly bleed onto the four unmarked graves laid out in front of his steel-cap boots… Niko fights for what’s his, and he’s only ever claimed one person in his life-Meraki. When the president of the New York chapter of the Seven Knights MC dies, he passes the gavel down to Niko… but unknown to anyone else, that’s not the only thing he left him. Niko knew her inside and out, and if he saw even a smidge of her soul, he would see that she was no longer the girl he left behind… She burned with her demons instead of running from them, but when Niko Davis rode back into town with a bag full of secrets, she knew she would need to start hiding them instead. The one that everyone thought she did, and the one she worked hard to hide.

Anti christ amo jones