Cold Burn of Magic by Jennifer Estep

Author:Jennifer Estep [Estep, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Mystery
ISBN: 9781617738258
Google: UW0XBAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00M4ASUO2
Barnesnoble: B00M4ASUO2
Goodreads: 22715908
Publisher: K-Teen
Published: 2015-04-26T16:00:00+00:00

I stayed on the roof, thinking about Devon’s words and all the emotions flashing in his eyes. Anger. Guilt. Grief. Fear.

But once again, that fear wasn’t for himself—it was for me. He truly meant what he’d said. He wanted me to leave because he really thought I would get killed being his bodyguard.

He was probably right about that.

But for the first time, I actually wanted to stay, and not because Claudia was paying me or threatening me or using Mo as leverage. I wanted to stay to prove Devon wrong. I wanted to show him it wasn’t his fault that he was a target. That this was the life he’d been born into and that there was nothing he could do to escape it.

Just like I couldn’t escape it now, either.

I wanted him to stay safe. I wanted to show him that I could survive anything the Draconis or any other Family threw at me.

More than that, I needed to do it, in the same way that my mom had. Mo was right. I was just like her—a fighter, a soldier, a protector. For the first time, I realized why she’d gotten off that park bench when Devon and Claudia had been attacked. Because she had wanted to save an innocent boy. And now, I did, too.

Damn it.

But the first step to protecting Devon—and myself—was finding out who wanted him dead. I thought back to the attack at the Razzle Dazzle. No doubt Grant had been investigating that as well. I’d have to ask him what he’d found out, if anything. And I’d ask Mo, too. He might come up with some leads that Grant had missed.

It was just like casing a house to rob or sizing up a tourist to pick-pocket. You analyzed risk versus reward, you looked for weak spots, and you figured how to get in and out with no one being the wiser. Easy peasy. I’d never failed on one of my jobs for Mo, and I wasn’t about to start now.

Satisfied with my plan of attack, I left the roof, climbed down the drainpipe, and went back to my room for the night.

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