Dead Man and the Restless Spirits by Lou Harper

Author:Lou Harper
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, gay, Vampires
Publisher: Harper Books
Published: 2013-06-25T00:00:00+00:00

Bran placed three votive candles—a white, a black, and a red—at each corner of the triangle and lit them. He murmured a few words. The candles flickered once, and the lines of sugar connecting them started to emanate a faint glow.

Bran stood. "Okay, let's get on with this hocus-pocus."

Gabe straightened his face. "Fine. What do we do?"

Bran instructed them to stand around the cloth. Ashley took her place on Bran's right, Denton on his left, and Gabe across.

Bran stretched out his arms. "Hold the hands of the persons next to you." Then to Denton: "Relax your mind and focus, as we practiced."

Ashley fidgeted. "Should we think of something? Jess has always told me to concentrate on the spirit we want to summon. Should I concentrate on Esther?"

Bran stared at her as if she'd suggested something radical, then nodded. "Yes. You should do that."

"Me too?" asked Gabe.

Without sparing him a glance, Bran said, "Sure," and took Denton's and Ashley's hands.

Looking off into space, he began to chant in Spanish. The repetitive rise and fall of Bran's voice had a calming effect on Denton and helped him tune out his environment.

"Puta!" Jessica's shriek jolted Denton out if his concentration. He saw Ashley jump too. Bran squeezed Denton's hand, as he probably did Ashley's, and kept on repeating the same rhythmic phrases, as if nothing had happened. Denton got the message and did his best to ignore Jessica.

"You can't do this. This is kidnapping. You'll go to prison!" she kept shouting, but nobody responded to her. A string of curses followed and another threat. "Un-fucking-tie me, or I'll kill you all, like I killed the drunk bastard!"

When they ignored her, she kept cursing and throwing threats and expletives at them, but as she went on, fewer of her words were in English and more in Spanish.

To tune her out, Denton thought about the warmth of Bran's hand, the self-assured firmness that his touch conveyed. He let that sense of certainty take him over, and with it he felt light filling him up, ounce by ounce. Then there was quiet, and Denton opened his eyes—he'd only just realized he'd closed them—and saw a wisp of smoke rise in the space between them, twist and grow. It whirled with the momentum of a swarm of angry wasps, gaining volume in every spin, till it was the size and rough shape of a person. Denton thought he could see traces of an angry young woman, but it was hard to tell.

Bran gave Denton's hand another squeeze, then let him go. Denton knew what to do. He let go of Gabe and raised his hands, palms outward. A wave of heat washed through him and burst out of his hands in the form of bright white light. It engulfed the smoky form of Esther's spirit. A brief flash later, there was only empty space over the summoning circle.

Ashley stared at Denton with her jaw dropped, and even the seasoned Gabe seemed impressed. However, Bran's pleased expression made Denton the proudest.

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