Blood Song (BS 1) by Adams Cat

Author:Adams, Cat [Adams, Cat]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fiction > Urban Fantasy
ISBN: 9780765324948
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2010-09-14T22:00:00+00:00

13

I’d had a long cry and a hug from a friend. I’d taken my drive. I’d walked on the beach. Nothing had helped get rid of the sorrow, the anger, and the sense of impending doom. That left a bath. Not just any bath, either … a long, hot bubble bath. I mixed a tall, stiff margarita to sip while I soaked. It’s part of the ritual, lying in the water, sipping that lime-flavored nectar of the gods, carefully licking every single grain of kosher salt off the rim of my glass. I don’t climb out until either the bubbles are gone or the drink is. A second drink gets me through a home pedicure and one of those mud pack facials everybody likes to make fun of.

Tonight I put a gun on the toilet seat and skipped the facial. My skin looked human, but I wasn’t sure how it would react to magically imbued salt mud.

I stood in the bathroom, wrapped in a towel and trying really, really, hard not to think too much about anything—which is harder than it sounds, particularly when I could watch the nicks from the razor heal fast as a thought and see last night’s injuries fade in fast-forward.

After the third margarita I figured I was as relaxed as I was going to get. I slipped into the most comfy “jammies” I own: a worn T-shirt I’d stolen from Bruno back in college and a pair of flannel boxers. I tucked the gun into the drawer of my nightstand and went to bed. Almost as soon as my head hit the pillows, I was asleep.

It was a dream. I knew it. But I couldn’t make myself wake. I knew what was coming. It was always the same. The dream ended the same way the day had ended in real life. I didn’t want to go there. I just didn’t have a choice.

It was so clear, as if the sunshine from that long-ago morning were streaming through the windows warming my skin right now.

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