Body of the Crime (Blackest Gold Series Book 2) by R. Scarlett

Author:R. Scarlett [Scarlett, R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-01-27T16:00:00+00:00

“HELLO?”

Molly took a deep breath where she stood in Lance’s messy kitchen, having called the first person she recognized in Tensley’s recent calls. “Pearce—god, please, we need your help, Tensley’s been poisoned—”

Pearce shuffled on the other end, his voice thick with sleep. “What the fuck are you talking about? What happened to Tensley?”

Molly pinched the bridge of her nose and leaned her forehead against the Victorian doorframe, wincing from the new bruise forming there. “We were attacked; some hunters followed us and poisoned our drinks.”

“Fuck!” In the background, she could hear him moving things, a glass shattering. A woman’s voice called to him and he told her to shut up. “Where are you?”

“Brooklyn,” she whispered. “At Unique New York—it’s a warlock’s shop.”

“Are you fucking deranged? A random warlock?”

“He’s not random! I know him. So are you coming or not? I just want to make sure there are more of us if the hunters come back—”

“Give me the address.”

She gave him the details and then paused. “Call Illya, too.”

“Fuck no.”

“Why not?”

He muttered a string of unintelligible curses before sighing. “Fine. Be there soon.”

She ran her hands over her face, watching Lance clean up a variety of herbs he’d used to rid Tensley’s body of the poison.

“Hey,” she said softly.

Lance grabbed a few grapes from a bowl and stuffed them in his mouth. “So you found Cree…”

Her shoulders stiffened. “More like he found us—and I let him go.”

“Dunno, seems like you made the right choice. Tensley would’ve been dead in minutes from that other drug they gave him. Rose thorn.” He shrugged and continued shoving grapes in his mouth and chewing loudly.

She couldn’t believe she’d almost gone after Cree instead of finding help for Tensley…the thought made her cringe.

“There have been whispers of finding a new leader, of disbanding,” Lance said. “Cree’s losing their trust, so he probably thought he could make an example out of you both. Clearly, he underestimated your daemon powers.”

Molly groaned into her hands. “While we were fighting, Cree said something strange… He said he had, like, information about daemons.”

Lance raised a brow. “Did he now?”

“Do you? A book? A pamphlet? Something? How can I hope to beat him if he knows more about my abilities than I do?”

Lance stroked his facial hair. “No, I don’t have a pamphlet, but maybe…” He moved to a cupboard and began rummaging around, removing a thick, worn book where she assumed cups or plates might be. He flipped through the pages, scanning the words and mumbling until he shouted with glee. “Here!”

Molly leaned over his shoulder, reading the paragraph underneath his finger. “What is it?”

“I don’t know much about daemons—they’re sort of an enigma to us all—but I do remember a legend my grandfather told me once, and here it is.

“According to this story, daemons were the offspring of Nyx, the night sky, and Heilos, the sun, a result of a forbidden union between dusk and dawn. The children who resulted were only ever female, and thought to be the Amazonian women of old.

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