Cursing Midlife Demons: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel (Adept At Fifty Book 5) by Heloise Hull

Author:Heloise Hull [Hull, Heloise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henwin Press LTD
Published: 2024-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

15

I cannoned straight into Blaise, tipping us both over. Luckily, he still had his reflexes and avoided falling like me, because frankly, Blaise was getting his ass kicked. He couldn’t afford to take a spill.

He had truly wound up in a nightmare.

We battled deep in vine-crossed overgrowth with snarling, yellow-eyed predators blinking at us from the treetops and thick foliage on the ground. The air was heavy and filled with enough moisture and humidity to practically lick. Immediately, I began to sweat through the sweater I still had on, although my coat was long gone, lost somewhere in Medea’s mirror world. We would be sad and frostbitten if—when—we got back to Antarctica.

“Bernadette! What are you doing here?”

Blaise managed to throw me his Sig-Sauer while smoothly wielding his broadsword in one fluid motion. Unfortunately, I wasn’t as smooth. I didn’t catch the heavy gun. Fortunately, the jaguar demons, which was really all I could call them, didn’t care about me. Not yet, at least.

I scrambled on the ground, my fingers deep in soft dirt and decaying leaves. Millipedes, centipedes and other creepy crawly bugs skittered away as fast as possible. Thankfully.

“We’re in mirror worlds, Blaise. Where is your glass shard?” I asked, desperately keeping the demons at bay, my back to Blaise’s to afford us a three-hundred-and-sixty-degree view if we stayed together. I wasn’t sure how I’d managed to get the shard. Teleportation? Was that a thing? I’d done it to myself before, on the stage at UFOPP when I was under stress. Here in the realms where magic flowed more free, my powers were growing and showing me my own potential. I shook myself. It didn’t matter how I’d done it. All that mattered right now was that it had taken me to Blaise.

“My what?”

“Shit.”

A snarl erupted before the giant cat leapt. I couldn’t see it, but I felt Blaise’s back muscles flex and stretch as he masterfully brought the sword down through the demon. I heard a thick, wet crunch as it drove through bone and sinew. Even outnumbered, exhausted, and possibly wounded, he was formidable.

“You have no idea what I’m talking about. Do you?”

Blaise only grunted, his focus entirely on the demons at hand. I, on the other hand, was freaking out.

If Blaise hadn’t seen his shard, we were potentially going to be looking for a needle in the proverbial haystack, although in this case, the haystack was a dangerous jungle. If the incessant whining of mosquitoes in my ear didn’t drive me mad first, Blaise would. That was just a given.

“Each of those shards in the secret room were essentially a key unlocking a mirror world.”

“To what?”

“A mirror world, and we need yours to get back home. We’re in a mirror.”

“I haven’t seen it. Been a little busy,” he rumbled, lunging at another jaguar.

I smacked my head. “What am I doing? It’s hot here.”

“Did you notice? Oh good.”

“It’s hot,” I emphasized again.

“Are you going to help or just continue to be Captain Obvious?” Blaise managed to say after gutting a jaguar demon with a primal grunt.

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