A Fistful of Evil: An Urban Fantasy Novel (Madison Fox, Illuminant Enforcer Book 1) by Rebecca Chastain

Author:Rebecca Chastain
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Publisher: Mind Your Muse Books
Published: 2014-08-18T04:00:00+00:00

12

Honk if You’re Hot and Horny

Imps bounced along the edge of the corridor, bubbling out of walls thick with atrum. Half-formed vervet swung from the slick black moulding over the open doors and spilled from the tops of sign placards, tumbling in balls of claws and teeth to the floor, ripping each other to pieces that disintegrated back into raw atrum to coat the floor.

Facing that evil-encrusted hallway, I tried to remain unbiased toward the video gaming industry. I’d always dismissed the reactionary statements that video games led to real-life violence, but maybe there was something to those paranoid news stories. This convention appeared to be a prime example.

Rose would have pointed out that most of the people at this event were good, normal people—well, maybe not normal—who were victims not evil predators.

Yet, something had attracted the sludge of darkness that seethed in the employees’ hallway, and it wasn’t the hotel staff.

A group of bikini-clad warrior women sauntered out of the lounge. They weren’t bad. One had dark soot on her soul, but the others were basically good. A rolling wave of imps chased their heels, taking tiny bites from their souls but not attaching.

The women kicked through a pile of twitching, detached vervet body parts that were slowly melting into the linoleum. My knee twinged. I tore my eyes from their atrum-smeared calves. My bare legs looked like snow against a starless night sky, marred jarringly by the soccer ball–size imp attached to my knee. I swallowed a shriek and stomped my foot to dislodge it.

The women’s laughter died, leaving the hallway eerily quiet. I glanced up in time to watch a vervet dropped from the doorway to the last girl’s shoulders. It shimmied down her back and sank its teeth into her ass. The women were all staring back at me, faces frozen. Maybe it was because I was in such a cool costume and they were all envious. After all, I was nearly fully clothed while they had only tiny scraps of fabric covering their X-rated bits.

More likely, they watched me in wary silence because I was hopping around, stomping my feet like I was in a ho-down while staring at the one woman’s butt.

They gave me wide berth, scuttling against the far wall like crabs in stilettos, sliding against all that raw atrum. My hand twitched toward the last woman’s ass, and she raced through the door with a shriek, tossing me a wild-eyed look. The vervet waved at me, never losing its mouthful, before the door clicked shut.

“Shit.” The vervet had noticed me watching it. “Shit, shit, shit.” My cover was blown.

Cover? What cover? I was like a walking Popsicle in front of a swarm of starved two-year-olds. Two-year-olds with razor-sharp teeth and predatory tendencies.

Okay, Dice. Use that pretty little head of yours. I stopped jumping around and concentrated on my knee. The imp burst into glitter. My control was perfect. None of the other creatures looked my way. Apparently they’d all missed my friendly exchange with the vervet, too.

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