Bewitching the Dragon by Jane Kindred

Author:Jane Kindred
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Ione’s borrowed features were flushed as she gaped up at him. “Oh...aren’t you...? You’re the Covent...what was it? Assayer?”

The fact that she seemed intent on maintaining her charade made him irritable. “Before you embarrass yourself, let me just state that I’m perfectly aware that it’s you, Ione. Your leather alone would have given it away. Besides, Phoebe told me you were here.”

Ione’s blush turned a shade pinker. “Of course she did. What are you doing here?”

“I might ask you the same.”

“I thought Phoebe told you.”

“Yes, I know what you told Phoebe, that you intended to find out what Lorelei Carlisle’s—or rather, Laurel Carpenter’s—connection is with Carter Hamilton.”

“And?”

“And...” Dev paused. If he told her he knew she’d threatened Carter with magic, he’d have to explain how. And explaining that he’d used Kur’s magic to conceal himself from detection and eavesdrop on her conversation just now—magical practice definitely not sanctioned by the Covent—would deprive him of the moral high ground. Not that he really had it in the first place, but neither was he ready to relinquish the illusion that he did.

Ione was eyeing him shrewdly through those blue-gray eyes.

“And I couldn’t help but wonder if there wasn’t more to it than that.”

“What more would there be to it? What are you insinuating?”

“I’m not insinuating anything, but it is part of my mandate to determine your involvement in Carter Hamilton’s oath-breaking.” He regretted the words as soon as he’d uttered them. He’d have done better to simply say he was jealous. Lord, was he jealous?

There was no mistaking the expression on Phoebe’s features. The outrage was purely Ione’s.

Shoving her phone inside her jacket and zipping it with a jerk, she brushed past him without a word. The helmet was already on her head when he caught up to her. She ignored him and got on the bike.

Dev watched her go with a sigh. It was just as well. He had no idea what he was going to say to make up for shoving that large of a foot into his mouth.

He contemplated using Kur’s magic once more to slip inside and beat the information out of Carter Hamilton, but that would get him nowhere. He’d be playing right into the neutered necromancer’s hands. He also had the nagging suspicion that the necromancer might not be as impotent as the Covent believed. Hamilton’s boasts about having his power restored notwithstanding, there had been a moment as Dev had paced behind Ione while she sat before the glass barrier when Hamilton had seemed to look right at him. If he’d been able to detect the magic Dev was expending to keep himself hidden, he clearly had some kind of magic of his own.

Heading out of the prison complex in his rental, Dev caught up with the black-and-red Nighthawk after just a few blocks. He stayed a few car lengths behind Ione all the way back to Sedona, worried she’d be distracted by her anger—at both him and Hamilton—but she drove with careful precision.

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