Boundary Born (Boundary Magic Book 3) by Melissa F. Olson

Author:Melissa F. Olson [Olson, Melissa F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781503936164
Published: 2016-06-21T04:00:00+00:00

The next time I woke, the clock next to Simon’s bed said 7:42, presumably in the morning. Someone had left the little lamp on the dresser switched on, so I had no trouble making out the figure huddled in the bed next to me, snoring lightly. Lily.

“Hey,” I tried to say, but it came out as an unintelligible rasp. Lily’s eyes popped open anyway. “Hi!” she said, relief heavy in her voice. She sat up, folding her legs in a lotus position. “Thank the goddess. I was a little worried when the ice packs didn’t wake you up. Here.” She twisted at the waist and picked up a sweating glass of water from the nightstand. There was a bendy straw inside. “You need to keep drinking, or we’ll have to do the IV again.”

I took an experimental sip of water. My cheek hurt when I closed my lips around the straw, but swallowing wasn’t as bad as I’d expected. The cold water felt wonderful and painful at the same time. It was like trying to drink when you have strep throat. Or after the tracheotomy I’d gotten the previous year.

Lily was watching carefully, giving me a little nod of approval when I was able to get the water down. “Good. Your trachea is swollen, but the hyoid bone is intact. You might be a little nauseous or light-headed today from the hypoxia, but you’ll be fine in a couple of days.”

She called for Simon, who leaned in the doorway and gave me a tired smile. “Welcome back to the living,” he joked. Lily smacked his arm, but without much energy. They both looked exhausted.

The cold water soothed the back of my throat, so I tried a whisper. “Did you find Emil?”

Simon’s face darkened. “No. Our locator spells aren’t working.”

Lily gestured helplessly. “We need either something that belongs to him or something that’s a part of him, like hair or fingernails. But the only thing we have is the crystal he left behind, and that’s gravitational magic, so it’s all wonky.”

“His blood?” I whispered. There must have been a little bit left in the IV tubing.

But Lily shook her head. “We tried, but the belladonna in his system messed it up. It was like when Emil tried a locator spell for you and your sister at the same time—the results were all confused.”

“No matter how many times we tried,” Simon added, dejected.

That’s why they looked so tired. They’d been up all night trying spells. For me. “Where does your mother think you are right now?” I whispered.

Simon and Lily exchanged a complicated look. It hit me in that moment that by dragging them into this mess, I had more or less asked Simon and Lily to choose loyalty to me over loyalty to their own mother, to their own kind. Shame burned my cheeks as I absorbed the size of that.

But before I could apologize or beg for forgiveness, Lily answered me, her words rushing out in a burst. “We had to tell her, Lex.

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