Burn the Dark by Nicola Rose

Author:Nicola Rose [Rose, Nicola]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-27T18:30:00+00:00

I was well aware how many times I’d told myself that – how I was going to suck it up and get a grip. It was like my daily mantra. I only hoped, prayed, that one of these days it would actually come true.

It might help if life would calm the fuck down for a second and stop throwing new crap my way. Sofia, Constance, Anna, Zac, Alex… I felt like a used rag being tossed back and forth between them, soaking up their bullshit and wringing my emotions dry in response.

Right then, it was Constance who had my attention, suddenly bursting with urgency that time was running out and we hadn’t trained enough. She didn’t seem particularly bothered about her failure to protect Sofia, which left a niggle in the back of my mind about what kind of woman she really was.

She was an ancient witch with her own agenda, firm in her belief that we were all just there to follow her lead. She might be insisting that my place in this puzzle was extremely important, but I shouldn’t trust her.

I didn’t trust anyone any longer. Not even my own heart which was aching and breaking, missing Zac and simultaneously wanting to kill and fuck Alex.

I refused Constance’s offer to drive, forcing her onto my bike, and smiling at how it must have looked to have a power-suited granny on the back of a Ducati Monster. I rode us to our decrepit training ground and we spent hours practicing. Hours and hours, going round and round. We finally progressed from the basics and she taught me new things – like closing a door with my will alone. At least, that was what she wanted me to do – but actually making it happen was another matter.

It was all very well having strength and extremely violent outbursts when threatened – I’d incinerated that cop on the spot! – but what good was it if I couldn’t summon that energy at will? I couldn’t see how closing a door was going to protect me from my enemies, but Constance insisted I wasn’t ready for anything big until I could manage the small.

At least I could light candles pretty easily now. Yeah, I was definitely getting somewhere.

I wanted to keep going, but in the end she booted me out, telling me that three hundred year old witches needed their beauty sleep. That she was extra tired these last few weeks, perhaps because of the adrenalin of finally finding me.

Before leaving, she handed me a dagger in a leather sheath, holding it out like it was a treasured artefact.

“It’s pure silver,” she’d said. “Keep it close at all times, for emergency vampire encounters.”

I laughed at the idea, but then remembered how effective William’s silver had been. I mean, it was his spells that caused the main problems, but the silver had hurt them. So I took the knife, and she sighed with relief.

After I saw her safely back to her new apartment,

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