BROKEN BLADE by J.C. Daniels

Author:J.C. Daniels
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-07-16T22:00:00+00:00

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Thirty minutes later, she left.

I kind of wished she’d been there about a hit.

Staring at the pouch full of silver and gold, all tucked away, I decided it might have been better if I hadn’t lowered my wards.

Justin continued to play with the gold piece he’d pulled from the bag and even after her presence had faded, we remained silent.

Finally, after nearly fifteen minutes, Justin blew out a breath. “I think the last time I felt that much magic off somebody, it was when I was sent with a team to take down a Druid over in Europe.”

“A Druid?”

He grunted. “Long story. His wife had finally died…which was the end of him. They need each other to survive, stay sane. He started going crazy.”

“How old was he?”

Justin shot me a look. “We found relics in his home dating back to the Iron Age.”

I blinked. “Whoa.”

“Yeah.” He looked at the bag of coins on my desk. “I think she’s older.”

“Shit.”

“Yeah.”

He tossed the coin in the air and I watched as it did the same thing his cards had done, spinning lazily around in the air, powered by his magic. It was an old piece of gold, the edges worn and smooth, handled by so many hands.

“When you say a fortune, just how much of a fortune are you talking about?” I asked.

He shrugged and held out his hand. The bit of gold settled into his palm and he closed his fingers around it. “I’ve seen pieces like this selling for twelve grand, Kit. And it’s not in prime condition. Other pieces in the bag might be.”

“Prime condition…meaning?”

“If I’m right…” He uncurled his fingers and I leaned, eying the faded and worn image depicted on one side. “And I probably am, this is Alexander the Great—”

I held up a hand. “Stop. Alexander the Great…as in the Alexander?” I might not know coins, but I knew fighters—even after more than two millennia, the name Alexander the Great was still known to men.

“Yeah.” Justin rubbed a thumb over the image and grinned at me. “That Alexander. Coins that old are pretty rare. It’s not the worth of the gold…it’s the collectable value of the coin. And Kit…it’s a pretty damn collectable coin.”

I frowned and reached out, plucking the coin out of his hand. “You’re telling me this is over two thousand years old?”

“Yep.”

Not quite certain I bought it, I studied the coin. Yeah, it looked old, but that old? “I never knew you were that big into coins.”

“Hey, it’s metal.” He shrugged. “A man’s got to have a hobby…metal is mine. And it’s possible I’m wrong about who is on the coin, but I’m not wrong about the age. That’s old, Kit. And it’s genuine. I can feel the age on it. That makes it pretty damn valuable.”

I tossed it back at him. He snagged it out of the air and as I settled back down at the desk, he went back to his little game of tossing it in the air and making it float.

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