Corpse Curses: A Reverse Harem Paranormal Romance (Curses, Charms, and Incantations Book 1) by Jen Ponce

Author:Jen Ponce [Ponce, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-26T16:00:00+00:00

15

STOLAS

Suspicion might be the cancer of friendship or it might end up saving lives. I’d rather lose a friend than have them lose their life.

I still smelled her long after she’d gone. Lux hadn’t been joking when he told me about her, about her unusual hair, and unusual eyes with their bloodthirsty gleam. I paced the store, still not quite able to believe that Malphas allowed himself to be trapped by her. He’d spent forever as a slave and he just turned around and jumped into the cage for her?

Why her? What was it about her that had Lux singing her praises?

Why had her crystal burned that particular shade? Perhaps that had been a trick of the light. A coincidence, surely. A mistake.

I pushed thoughts of the crystal aside to focus on Lux’s obsession. Hell, Malphas’s obsession. She had said she was willing to hunt down the last piece of me still in that bitch’s clutches, but it could have been lip service. She might offer favors the way others offer tea.

I opened the cabinet where I stored all manner of magical accoutrement and pulled out a globe of black glass in which danced some of Lilith’s fire. She’d gifted it to me after the Battle of the Joris Plains and I’d kept it hidden away knowing my fellow demons would want to see it, to touch it after she’d disappeared. This bit of her was mine and I was greedy enough to want to keep it to myself.

I set it on the counter and spun it. The fire spun too, twirling and dancing and eventually opening a Way. It allowed me to see the past of anyone I wished, and I focused on the intriguing woman who’d walked into my shop wrapped in an aura of lust and danger.

Heady combination, that.

“Show me Korri Marchand,” I said, holding her likeness in my mind’s eye. The Way shifted, sizzled, and then I saw her as a teenage girl confronting bullies in front of a brick wall. I saw her as a young woman, as a child. Every time the Way shifted through her life, there was always a huge part missing between the time when she was small and the time when she was a teen. Something had redacted that part of her past, redacted it so thoroughly I could see nothing of the time between her toddler and teen years.

Interesting.

I spun the glass the opposite direction and whispered a thank you to my queen, even though she was no longer around. I missed her; we all did, our lord most of all. Her death had been the end of us, though we hadn’t known it at the time. The death of the goddess Hecate had started it all, but Lilith had finished it.

Spinning in the opposite direction, I could gaze some at the future, and I saw Korri in mine, saw Malphas and Lux too. The future was less certain, and the ball could not possibly capture all the infinite possibilities and timelines we could spin off into.

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