The Devil's Daughter by Hannah mangan (best non fiction books of all time .txt) 📖

guy. Some of the things he did to me were so horrible; my brain has blacked them out. I had to fight demons until I was broken and bleeding and then I was told to keep going. If I refused to do something he threw me into the lake of fire.
His only problem was that he underestimated me. He thought that he had broken me, but he hadn’t. I escaped from my cell one night, and overheard him speaking with another demon. “She shows promise” said the demon. “Of course, so do you think she has the power to control the gates?” the Devil asked. “I am almost positive. But the only way to know for sure is to let her try” the demon said. “Yes, hmm, and we can’t have her escaping” he said.
And that was enough for me, I finally had a chance of escaping. I knew he meant the gates to heaven and hell. No wonder I was so important. He believed I could work both. I had only seen the gate opened twice but got the main idea.
Then I had hurried through the bloody streets of hell in a black cloak with a sword, hoping to blend in with the demons. Once I got to the gate, which for now was just pitch black, nothingness, I was lucky. Only some of the littler demons were guarding it because who would be stupid enough to try to escape? Who even had the ability to? Only me of course.
Littler demons I could handle, it was the greater demons that I had been worried about. And I remember how desperate I was. I had been almost crazed.
I incinerated the first two demons who got in my way, without even blinking. And I slit the throat of the next. Then I had looked into the inky blackness, and I closed my eyes and tried to picture, and feel the gate. At first there was nothing, and I started to panic but then it was like a switch flipped in my brain. Suddenly without even thinking I was raising my hand and calling the gate up.
An alarm of some kind was going off now but I didn’t react to it. I was looking at the gate which was black and tall, and magnificent. And I could feel all the lives on the other side. And all the places, some places with people so terrible. All of them were calling me to open them but I made myself focus on earth. And then I stepped through.
The last thing I saw was the devil’s angry face. His red eyes flaring, and his sharp teeth flashing as I was enveloped in a strange blackness. I heard him yell, “I will find you Fiera!” and then I found myself on soft grass, somewhere in Washington. I didn’t go home, I didn’t want to put my mom in danger, and I knew everyone would be after me.
I was drawn back to the present as Will threw a crumpled up note at me. I opened it. It said, “Are you okay?” and then at the bottom of the page there was a ridiculous picture of the teacher. I laughed and the teacher turned from his lecture to glare at me. I quickly hid the note. Will was smirking. Then I wrote, “I’m fine” on the note and passed it back to him, under the table because the teacher was still watching.
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I met Will in the parking lot after school most days after that so we could go flying. He was getting really good “So you wanna come over to my house for a while?” he asked. I smiled, “sure” I said, I had never been to his house. Will’s house was a small two story blue house, in the woods, with a cliff a little ways behind his house. It was beautiful and the view was amazing. “It’s beautiful” I said as we walked into the back yard. He got us lemonade’s from the kitchen and then I took off my jacket and let out my wings. I sighed in relief. Will let his wings out too. They were dazzling. And then I had an idea, “You wanna learn fencing?” I asked. He smiled “where’d you learn that?” he asked. Hell, I though darkly. “Classes” I lied. “Alright then” he said.
We turned our pendulums into swords and then I started teaching him the basics. Like footing, and balance, and how to block and jab. But he wasn’t very good, and he kept making funny faces at me, when I was trying to show him things. I was laughing so hard tears were rolling down my face when he made a fish face at me. “i- give- up- on- you” I said through my laughs. And I realized I hadn’t laughed like this in- well as long as I could remember.
He made a tragic face, “Oh, how will I ever go on?” he said in a falsetto, and then pretending to swoon to the ground. I sat down on the ground next to him. “You’re hopeless” I said.
And then the back door opened and a pretty, middle aged, woman with long blonde hair came out. She looked at us, and we must have been quit a sight, two teenagers with wings, sitting on the ground with swords. She raised her eyebrows. “Oh hey mom, this is who I was telling you about” he said. She smiled, “then you must be Nakoda” she said. “Yes, nice to meet you” I said.
“So, what were you too up to?” she asked eyeing the swords. I met Will’s eyes, and we laughed. “I was trying to teach Will fencing, but he is hopeless” I said. Will made the fish face at me. I laughed. “But I would be pretty damn good at charades” he said. His mom rolled her eyes and then headed in the house saying she was making dinner.
Then Will ran and jumped off the side of the cliff, flying, then he called over his shoulder “You coming Kody?” My heart froze and I think that is when I first started falling in love with Will. No one had ever given me a nickname before, or made me laugh so hard I cried. Will was all I ever wanted and all I could never have
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For those few weeks everything was fine and perfect. We flew together all the time and I started to teach him sword fighting. And I showed him that because he’s part angel he can understand every language. Some can even understand animals. Of course I couldn’t do that, but I could do other things like control fire. Of course I didn’t show him this though. But then things got so good and so bad at pretty much the same time. I should have known nothing can last.
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The air made my long hair fly around my face. I loved it. I twisted and then did a drop, diving straight down for about 20 feet and then pulling up. Distantly I heard Will make a whoop as he dropped also and then he was beside me. Will’s flying had improved a lot over the weeks and now he was almost as good as me.
I turned to look at him. He was glorious and I deeply wanted to tell him what I was. But I couldn’t because I knew that would be the end. Our eyes met, his smoldering into mine, a smile on his perfect lips. Oh, how much I wanted to kiss him. To explore his muscled chest. He flew closer. I couldn’t move. His eyes held mine, and then he grabbed my arm and pulled me to him.
I didn’t resist and when his lips met mine I thought I might melt. His mouth was warm and soft, as they moved softly against mine his arms around me. His lips tasted sweet, like honey, and I let my hands explore his chest and then tangle in his soft hair and pulled him even closer to me, deepening our kiss. Our legs entwined, and our wings touched as we kissed, high in the air, the wind blowing all around us. It was perfect. The best kiss I’d ever had and I realized one terrifying yet at the same time wonderful thing. I loved him. I, the devils daughter, loved a half angel. Someone I could never stay with. “I love you” he whispered. I thought I might cry, “I love you too” I managed to say back. And then we flew towards the ground, our hands entwined.
The next day after school Will met me in the parking lot. “You want to come over to my house?” he asked. “Sure” I said. I spent a lot of time at his house. He lived with his mom, who thankfully, knew little of heaven and Hell, and all that. I jumped in his truck. “How was your day?” he asked. “Boring as usual” I said smiling at him. But my stomach was doing uneasy flip flops. I needed to tell him, but I couldn’t seem to get out the words. “Will, I-I’m-“ I stopped. I couldn’t. “You’re what?” he asked smiling. A Demon. I’m a demon Will. The devil’s daughter. “I’m just really glad I met you” I finished smiling weakly. He smile “yeah, me too” he said leaning over to kiss me. ‘Coward’ I thought to myself.
When we parked at his small, two story, blue house, which was surrounded by forest, with a cliff behind it, his mom came out smiling. “Will, you have a guest” she said. We got out and headed into his bright backyard, holding hands when, we caught sight of an angel in the middle of the yard, who I assumed was Gabriele. He was tall, with dark blonde hair and bright blue eyes. His huge frame could be two of me and he had a sword strapped to his back. I froze eyes wide in horror. This couldn’t be happening. “Hi, William” he said and then flashing his blue eyes to me where they narrowed. “Hey its okay she’s nephilim like me, this is Nakoda” Will said.
But then he roared and stamped his foot and the ground rippled towards me, ripping my hand from Will’s and sending me flying back. I hit a tree, while Will screamed out in surprise. Gabriel grabbed me before I could even stand and pulled me back over to Will, pulling my head back and putting his sword on my neck. “What are you doing?!” Will yelled, stepping forward. I struggled in his grip, but he was stronger than me. “This” Gabriel snapped, “Is part demon” he said. Will froze, his eyes widening. Tears welled in my eyes, “I tried to tell you” I gasped. “No” Will
whispered. The sword pressed tighter into my neck. “Don’t hurt her” Will said. “She is a demon, it needs to be done” Gabriele said.
But then I wrenched my head back, hitting him in the face and pulled away, rolling backwards and landing in a crouch, pulling the pendulum from my neck and turning it into a sword. He laughed, “You can’t win against me child” he said. Will watched, frozen. His mom was still standing in the doorway, looking frightened. My back was hurting and my ankle had twisted when I’d hit the tree. “we’ll see” I said. He smiled then charged