Darkness Savage (The Dark Cycle Book 3) by Rachel A. Marks

Author:Rachel A. Marks [Marks, Rachel A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781503950306
Publisher: Skyscape
Published: 2016-10-11T03:00:00+00:00

THIRTY

Rebecca

Aidan’s going to pick me up on his way to the club. I really couldn’t care less about this spell he’s so anxious to do, I just don’t want to be alone in the house anymore, wondering what the heck’s going to get dropped off on my doorstep next.

The truth is, after last night I’m terrified that whatever’s going on with me could mess everything up. I’m not like the rest of them, I can feel it. I’m not like Aidan, with his abilities to read people or his powers to kill demons. I don’t know what I am, but it’s not like them.

If that lady who left the possum was telling the truth, then Ava wants me on her side. And she wouldn’t want someone good.

When Aidan arrives, he cleans up the dead possum, and I hose off the porch. I want to tell him everything that happened last night with the fire—or the nonfire, I guess—but I just don’t know how. I don’t know how to explain it. And I still sort of feel like I may have imagined it all.

Instead, when we’re getting in the car, I ask him if he got my text of the drawing.

“Yeah,” is all he says. His hands grip the steering wheel tighter.

“You know what it is,” I say.

He glances sideways at me. “It’s a spell.” He pauses but then adds quickly, “How did you know how to draw it?”

I knew it was bad. I can tell from the tension in his shoulders, the pinched skin at the corner of his eyes, that I was right. “I, uh . . . well, it just sort of came to me. I drew it with my eyes closed.”

He sucks in a quick breath. “You channeled.”

“I did? Is that bad?”

He shakes his head, and I assume he’s going to say no, but instead he says, “I don’t know. It depends what you were channeling. But it could mean you’re able to call up spirits.” Then something seems to dawn on him. “Maybe that’s what Miss Mae meant by tricking spirits.” He sounds relieved at the idea, like there were worse alternatives. But it all sounds pretty bad.

“Maybe, I guess.” I don’t have a clue what Miss Mae meant. “So, you think this was because of the piece of Kara that went into me?”

“I don’t know. Kara’s ability was very . . . different.”

“What could she do?”

“She, uh . . . well, I guess you could say that she hypnotized people. She was basically able to make them do whatever she wanted.”

I sit straighter, the idea unnerving me. “She could mind control people?” No wonder Aidan was worried that I somehow adopted that part of Kara. “Did she ever do it to you?”

He shrugs. “Once, just to show me how it worked.”

“Oh.” And then I ask, hurriedly, “Did she ever do it to me?”

“No,” he says firmly. “She didn’t like using it, it made her sick.”

“But now it’s gone?”

“When my energy healed her curse, that went with it.

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