Darkness Undone by Jessa Slade

Author:Jessa Slade [Slade, Jessa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: David_James Mobilism.org
ISBN: 9781101576854
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2012-03-06T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

“Is it Friday yet?” Liam spiked his fingers through his hair again, though the morning wind chuffing across the warehouse roof kept trying to flatten it. “This week has sucked.”

As reactions to Sid’s revelation went, it could have gone worse.

Clouds were massing higher, but at the horizon, the pale blue sky was quartz sharp—the same shade as Alyce’s eyes, bright with desire.

The view kept blurring as Sid struggled to focus around the corrective lenses of his spectacles. Finally, he tucked them into his breast pocket. “You think your week’s been bad?”

The league leader scowled. “I’d finally gotten the crew hammered into some shape that wasn’t slicing at itself as often as the enemy. Then you showed up and threw everything out of whack. And then Alyce. And now you again.”

“So sorry.” Sid pushed a hefty dose of sarcasm through the word.

“Sorry is right. Sorry excuse for a …” Liam bit back the rest.

“No worries, old boy. I already said it myself. Shitty Bookkeeper. Worse talya. What was the teshuva thinking?”

Liam waved one hand. “None of the league—Bookkeeper or talya—has ever pretended to have a clue what the demons think.”

Sid wondered if that was supposed to be some sort of apology. “On the plus side, you don’t have to convince me I’m possessed.”

“True. And that part is always so awkward and circular—‘yes, demons exist; no, you’re not crazy; yes, demons exist’—like some damn square dance.” Liam straightened abruptly. “Fuck. I know who your partner was, don’t I?”

Despite the chill in the wind, Sid’s face heated. “I hope you’ll be discreet with your hypothesis,” he said stiffly.

“Only thing worse would be if you’d slept with Sera or Nim.”

“Not worried about Jilly?”

“She’d kill you before I could.” Liam groaned. “Why couldn’t you have balanced the teshuva’s virgin ascension the old-fashioned way? With a nice round of fisticuffs? Any of us would’ve been happy to oblige. But I suppose you found your own virgin ascension.”

Though Liam’s tone was more cynical than crude, Sid’s gut tightened as if someone had punched him. The shock radiated up from the newly etched reven on his belly and stole his breath.

And his common sense apparently, since he suddenly found himself toe-to-toe with the rangy league leader.

Toe-to-toe did not mean nose-to-nose, unfortunately. He canted his head to pin the taller man with a hard stare. “I’ll ask you not to say such things about her.”

Liam did not move a muscle, and still his presence seemed to double. The demon’s mark at his temple flared violet.

Sid had always considered himself a pro at conflict avoidance. After all, as a mere child, he’d weaseled his way into a quasi-military/religious underground organization that had taught paranoia to the Templars. Everything he’d achieved had come from books and brains and that early bit of blackmail.

Brawn had never been his MO. The demon was definitely a bad influence, because even once he thought it through, he didn’t back down.

Liam gave him a slow blink. “I am not going to fight with you now, talya.

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