Consort of Light by Eva Chase

Author:Eva Chase [Chase, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781989096185
Publisher: Ink Spark Press
Published: 2018-10-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Rose

The closer we got to downtown Portland, the more the afterglow of the ceremony faded. I snuggled closer to Seth in the backseat of the car, breathing in his warm bronze-y scent and reveling in the tingle of bright energy that passed between us just with that innocuous contact. He hugged me closer with his arm around my shoulders. At my other side, Jin rubbed my knee.

My spark burned to hide away with my five consorts and bask in our newly strengthened bond all day, all week. The ache ran even deeper than when we’d first committed to each other. But if we gave in to that impulse, the demon might have ravaged the city around us by the time we emerged.

I didn’t know if I could summon enough power now to overcome that monster, but I could feel I had more. The magic humming through my chest with each sway of my spark had a stark brilliance to it that I’d never felt before. My spark wasn’t just a flame now but a miniature star.

We hadn’t heard any news about the demon while we’d been on Thalia’s estate, but the Assembly wouldn’t necessarily have reached out to her or me at this point. Who knew what destruction it might have wrought in the last few hours? My stomach knotted at the thought.

When the car pulled up outside the Assembly building, I took a small comfort in the fact that the building was still standing, and all the ones around it on the street too. The medic yesterday had said at its current pace, the demon might reach the city later today. Steeling myself, I climbed out of the car with the guys. The rest of my consorts spilled out of the second car that had been driving with us.

The gray face of the Assembly building loomed over us, looking solemn and impenetrable. I motioned my consorts to me. “Come on. Let’s talk to them together. They’re going to have to start accepting us as a package deal, especially now.” And the idea of my newly soul-bonded partners traveling even blocks away from me down the street made my heart wrench.

We filed into the building. Thalia gave my hand a squeeze and moved down the hall to check in with the other recovering witches. I turned to one of the enforcers on guard near the doors.

“Are the Northcotts in their office?”

“Lady Northcott is on the premises,” she said. Her eyes slid over the guys, with a wariness I couldn’t help noticing. How many times had we come and gone from this building in the last week, and that tension remained.

I guessed that was as good an answer as I was going to get. We headed up the stairs to the Northcotts’ office on the fifth and top floor. The building might look modern enough, but witching society hadn’t thought elevators worth bothering with. It really was ridiculous how much so many of them looked down on the unsparked when we had plenty of backwards habits ourselves.

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