Cornered Magic by Charissa Dufour

Author:Charissa Dufour
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: vampires, fae, vampires and werewolves, fae romance, fae adventure, fae urban fantasy, fae dark fantasy, fae dark urban fantasy, vampires and faeries

Sam woke the next morning, aware that her father was home for the day—his one day off a week. Though she didn’t have work or give a tour, she knew she needed to escape the apartment. She dressed quickly, ran a comb through her white hair, and emerged.

Her father was struggling to fix a broken door on a cabinet when she appeared. He glanced over his shoulder at her, grunted, and returned to his work. Sam was hungry, but she chose to skip breakfast again in favor of avoiding his ire.

She found Amber waiting for her outside her apartment. Amber handed her a breakfast roll wrapped in a paper napkin. Sam smiled at her in gratitude before sinking her teeth into the warm, fresh bread. The walked mostly in silence as they headed out of the complex.

“I think we need to go back to Becky’s apartment. Maybe pick the lock. I want to see inside before we assume she’s snuck out of the Res. I just can’t see her doing that.”

Amber nodded, willing to follow Sam’s lead. The walked back to Becky’s plastic studio apartment. Amber stood watch as Sam knelt and used one of Amber’s bobby pins to pick the second-rate lock.

While Amber was innocent of nearly any crime, Sam had spent a stint or two in Solitary. She had a few skills—most gained in her efforts to avoid her father—that weren’t often used for legal purposes.

In seconds she had it opened. Sam turned her head away from the opening, her hand going to her nose instinctively. She doubted Amber realized the meaning of the smell, but Sam did.

Something was dead inside the enclosed apartment.

“What’s that smell?” Amber asked as she turned away from the empty walkway.

Sam hesitated. She didn’t want to answer, but figured it would be kinder to give Amber a heads up, rather than to let her come to the horrible truth all in one instant.

“Something rotting.”

“Like she left her dinner out?”

Sam opened and shut the door rapidly, wafting fresh air into the apartment, unable to meet Amber’s gaze. If Amber was so determined to ignore reality, Sam wasn’t going to push. She would get her awakening soon enough.

“Stay behind me,” Sam ordered as she began to slip into the studio apartment.

The open room only had two doors—the tiny bathroom and the even tinier closet. Sam ignore the body on the floor to check behind each door. Amber, though, was not able to ignore the body. Sam heard her gasp as she took in Becky’s corpse and rush to her side.

Like a pro, Amber checked for a pulse and prepared to start CPR.

“Stop that,” Sam ordered.

“We have to try!” argued Amber.

Sam grabbed her friend’s arm and pulled her back before she could put her lips to the corpse’s mouth.

“She’s been dead for days, Amber. There’s no point trying. You’d just get sick in the process.”

Sam knew her friend needed comfort, but she was here to solve the problem. They could mourn when the bastard who’d killed her was dead.

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