Cursebound by Rachel Shane

Author:Rachel Shane [Shane, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Twinstar Press
Published: 2016-11-28T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

DELILAH

The original plan was simple. Foolproof. Perfect. Delilah would hole up in a nearby hotel outside of The Golden Leaf’s protective wards but with enough proximity to still be effective. She’d take the vial of blood Cole donated earlier, add it to her trusty hot pot with a few additional ingredients, speak a few sentences of contractual legalese and voila! The spell would give Cole a blast of magical power within the walls of The Golden Leaf but undetectable to the wards thanks to receiving the boost via third party means. With the boost running through his blood, Cole would be on enough equal footing with Kendrick to have a fighting chance against him and use the needle and glass vial stashed on his body to retrieve a single drop of Kendrick’s blood. Just one. Well, okay, two. That was all that was needed.

Even though Delilah couldn’t do magic, the plan could still work with Britta…except one problem. Delilah hadn’t counted on Kendrick making himself impenetrable to both magical attacks and physical ones. If Cole stabbed him with a needle, it would bend like rubber just like it had done to Delilah.

No, boosting Cole with magic was only half the plan. A component. In order for this to work, they also had to weaken Kendrick somehow.

Britta bit her lip, tapping her foot against her floral couch. “We could slip him a—”

Delilah shook her head. They had less than two hours, give or take, to come up with something. There was no way they could get close enough to Kendrick to slip him anything. “We need something that takes him down without us setting foot on the premises.”

Britta wrinkled her nose. “But why not? You don’t have magic anymore. You can enter the wards without harm.”

Kendrick’s note had invited as much. Delilah swallowed hard. “Because he siphons the energy of anyone who enters his casino and uses it to make himself more powerful. I’m already weak from the last few days. I can’t risk losing anymore energy.” Unless…

Delilah leaped off the couch and paced across Britta’s dusty rose carpet. An idea was swirling in her mind so insane, so risky, she couldn’t even grasp onto the ends of it and wrap her full mind around it. Pieces floated in her version. Siphons energy of his patrons to make himself more powerful. We need to weaken Kendrick somehow. The two facts were opposites, but if she combined them, maybe they could work in her favor. Kendrick had grown accustomed to the ever present trickle of energy flowing into his veins from his patrons at the casino. But what if that trickle became a sudden blast of energy surging into him at once? It might be strong enough to overwhelm him enough to knock him out, if only for a few seconds. If they timed it perfectly with the whoosh of magic Cole would be expecting, maybe they stood a chance.

Delilah slowly spun on her heels to face Britta, forcing herself to swallow before she said the idea.

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