A Study in Seduction by Eva Chase

Author:Eva Chase [Chase, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781989096345
Publisher: Ink Spark Press
Published: 2019-03-27T05:00:00+00:00

The second my hotel room door clicked shut behind me, I spun on my heel, glaring around the space.

“What the hell was that, Bog?” I said, raising my voice as loud as I dared, hotel walls being what they were. “If you want to give me a message, give it to me directly. Aren’t you embarrassed to turn yourself into some kind of schlocky horror carnival trick?”

I hadn’t known for sure that the shrouded one had followed me back here, but after the show Bog had just put on, I’d figured it’d want to watch my full reaction. The air near the window shimmered. The pale sunlight seeping through the glass partly solidified into Bog’s wavering form.

“You seem very upset, bloodling. How unlike you.”

I aimed my glare at the impenetrable mist of Bog’s face. “I just can’t believe how stupid you’re being. How many of your kind’s laws did you just break? You have business with me, not with anyone else around me.”

“And yet your business with them seems so urgent as your days creep toward their end.” Bog drifted over the table. “Very strange.”

“I should be able to do whatever I want with those last few days, seeing as I still belong to myself for that time.”

“I haven’t prevented you from doing anything. You move about perfectly freely.”

I gritted my teeth. “You know you’re disrupting the human world. Do you really want me to report this to the rest of the shrouded folk? What will they do with you?”

The shrouded one made a sound like a creaky chuckle. “If they realize who you are, it will be just as bad for you as for me. If they don’t, nothing they inflict would interfere with contracts already drawn. I doubt we will find out, will we, bloodling? You’re in no hurry to place yourself before the ones you were once so desperate to escape.”

The words made the back of my neck twitch. “There are ways I can tip them off without them knowing who pointed them in the right direction,” I said. “Maybe I’d like to see justice carried out whether or not it affects what I owe you.”

“Maybe,” Bog said with hollow amusement. “Or maybe you would refuse to take even that chance.”

It vanished like a streak of light swallowed up by a shadow, there and then gone. I stood scowling at the place where it’d been for several moments longer.

Maybe you would refuse to take even that chance. Bog was calling my bluff. A finger of cold prodded my stomach.

It was a bluff. I’d be worse off if the rest of the shrouded folk turned their attention on me than I was right now.

In the grand scheme of things, Bog was small potatoes. The only reason I’d been able to convince it to make the deal was that it’d never have gotten its maw on a human sacrifice in ten thousand years otherwise. What it’d said was true: If the higher folk found out Bog was the one

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