The Undelightened
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- Bentz Deyo (Écrivain)
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CHAPTER 1
“So what are you gonna do to her?” the young man with the blue eyes asked, looking across the center console of the Range Rover into the black eyes of his brother.
“That’s exactly the point, Leam,” the black-eyed brother laughed, a shrill, almost mechanical laugh, unbecoming of a handsome seventeen year-old boy who had been sixteen last night. “I’m not sure what I’ll do to her. That’s the beauty of this whole thing. Once the ceremony is over, I’ll know what my new self will be capable of, and then I’ll just know what to do…like instinct.”
The silver SUV exited off the highway and cruised its way down the one lane Boulevard toward the plush suburbs of Harbing, New Jersey. The rain was lightening a bit, and a thick hazy mist seemed to be emitting from the wet leaves of the oaks that lined the street. The mist was so dense, the tree branches looked to be spewing clouds of smoke.
With his feet on the dash, Leam stared at his brother, studying his face. Zach had the look of someone who had been waiting for something for a very long time and could now see it coming to fruition, like children staring at presents under the tree on Christmas morning, waiting for permission to start opening.
“And Mother is sure that when it’s over,” the younger brother continued—younger by a year less one day, “I will go on to accomplish tremendous acts of Darkness. In her exact words, she said, ‘Zach, my child, you will have it all! You will be capable of the unspeakable. You will be more beautiful than you are now!’”
“Beautiful? Who’s she kidding, you’re disgusting.”
“Really?” Zach said, sliding a cell phone out of his pocket with surprising speed.
“Yeah, you’re a monster.”
“Care to see how many girls text me a day, begging for me to come over? And it’s not to study, Leam. They don’t text me to study.”
Leam shrugged, glancing over his shoulder. Muffled thumping sounded from the cargo area in the back.
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Leam Holt’s eighteenth birthday tomorrow caps the most depressing year of his life, marking the anniversary of his failed delightenment—the soul-darkening, magic-bestowing rite of passage that should’ve launched him into the fight between Darkness and Light. Making things worse, Leam’s insufferable brother, Zach, the pride of the family, is set to delighten in a few short hours.
When Gideon, the evil leader of Darkness, arrives to preside over Zach’s ceremony, the course of Leam’s life takes a drastic turn. Rather than fading farther into the background, Leam is ordered to undergo a series of brutal trials. Vast magical power is suddenly within Leam’s grasp if he triumphs, but Leam can’t seem to stay away from a beautiful girl of Light, and his testing is yielding disturbing results.
As Leam begins to uncover secrets on both sides of the war, he realizes the fate of humanity is at stake, and he may have the most to lose in the fight.
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