Blood Magic [Supernaturals Underground, Book One][A Dark Young Adult Urban Fantasy] by Holly Hook

Author:Holly Hook [Hook, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Time to go. Ugh, why had I argued with Xavier? We needed to quit doing that. “No, I don’t need doctors because I only have a quarter and could never afford one. Are you happy you pointed out my poverty?”

The woman moved moving to block the exit, and I searched my peripheral vision for another. There was one, but that exit sign hung behind a bunch of boxes.

And the perfume. It was like Cazio’s cologne that masked something more.

The woman’s fingernails were longer. Greener.

Seriously? Another Supernatural?

I dropped being polite. I lifted the cane and pointed it right at the old woman. Instead of backing off, she laughed. It sounded like nails going down a chalkboard crossed with a cat having its tail yanked off.

The illusion dropped in a blink, and I held my sword once again, demon bloodstains and all. It reflected the dim orange light of the room.

She had lured us in here. I was facing another dark creature and Xavier had gone to sulk under the bridge.

Xavier! I thought. His voice had entered my head. He might hear me.

No reply. The woman laughed again, and her skin took an ugly greenish-white tone like a rotting corpse.

“What are you?” I asked.

Lulu shuffled back to another box and tore it open with her claw. Black fabric rested inside. “Why don’t you try our Dark Pentagram line? Cazio says you’re the one who can. You don’t understand your value. He needs you, Alyssa. He’s waited for you for a long time. Centuries. No. Millennia.”

What the heck?

He thought I was special?

Great.

“I don’t get it,” I said, keeping the blade of my sword pointed at her heart. I could run or hope for Xavier to get worried and come back, but this shopkeeper had mentioned Cazio. That made things so south in an instant. I struggled to keep calm. I had survived Allunna, but that had been with Xavier’s magic. Maybe I could still tap it. “And you didn’t answer my question. What are you?”

The woman opened her mouth much wider than she could and screamed.

All the headaches the sun had given me fell short of this. The horrific screech filled my head and threatened to pop all my brain cells. The world pulsed and went black, then returned, then went black again and blinked. The scream stretched into what felt like eternity and faded at last like an ebbing siren.

A banshee.

They were supposed to be a type of demon.

And I was getting sick of demons.

Lulu smiled, greener than ever, and clapped her hands like she was waiting for my reaction. Banshees could stun Normals and put them in the hospital. One had even robbed a bank a few years ago and made the news. If I were Normal, I might have passed out.

“That was annoying.” I prayed for the pain in my head to vanish.

Lulu’s jaw dropped, revealing gross teeth.

She must not have been expecting me to fight back so fast, because I jammed my blade into her ribcage. Bones cracked

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