Arcane Kiss by Angela Knight

Author:Angela Knight [Knight, Angela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-01-27T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Genevieve sat cross-legged in a circle she had drawn in chalk on the cement of Kurt’s drive. The afternoon sunlight turned her long hair into a cloak of copper fire as she sat there, eyes closed, slim and straight in cream shorts and a T-shirt. Her long, long legs looked tan and lovely, with the kind of elegant muscle that suggested she ran or lifted weights. Maybe both, given her military family. Her full lips moved as she chanted something in Latin. For once, he couldn’t feel the spell she was casting. The magic was contained by the circle.

Three containers of paint sat in front of Gen’s knees, and she held a glass vial full of dark brown powder -- her own dried blood.

Still chanting, Genevieve tipped the vial over each of the paint containers and tapped out a careful quantity of the powder. Her gestures smooth, she picked up a glass rod engraved with intricate magical sigils and stirred the mixture with precise circles of her wrist.

When she was finished, she picked up one of the containers, rose to her feet and stepped out of the circle, leaving the other two inside. The circle would maintain the power of the spelled paint while she worked.

Kurt handed over the airbrush gun -- a wand-shaped device attached to the coil of tubing. She screwed the container onto the brush, and turned on the air compressor. It started with a soft sigh as she walked to the circle she’d sprayed on the ground with non-magical paint. The design was nothing more than a guide to the placement of the actual spell. It needed to be as close to round as possible to avoid irregularities that would create weaknesses the Arc could exploit.

Kurt followed her, playing out the tubing as she started painting symbols along the circumference of the circle in sweeping strokes, creating the intricate sigils that comprised the language of magic. She chanted as she worked, her voice rising pure and clear over the hiss of the compressor. Each step and sweep of her hand seemed more dance than anything else, and her eyes stared into the distance, as if she gazed at something only she could see.

It took more than two hours to lay the spell -- three complete circuits of the house, one for each of the three colors.

It was a hot afternoon, and the sun beat down on their shoulders. It wasn’t long before sweat streamed down Kurt’s spine and dewed Gen’s skin as if she’d been oiled. Yet she didn’t pause, never seemed to let her concentration flag.

With every sigil, the strength of the spell grew, until it felt like a second sun beating on his face. Genevieve had given him a charm designed to fool the spell into thinking he was a part of her, or the spell would have shoved him right out of the circle.

God she really is powerful, he thought. Something about the feel of her magic lapping against his skin felt intensely erotic.

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