Death Magic by Wilks Eileen

Author:Wilks, Eileen [Wilks, Eileen]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: PENGUIN group
Published: 2011-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-TWO

“YOU should’ve told him,” Scott said.

They were in Rule’s car, headed for Bethesda. Scott was driving, of course. Lily had turned the heater on. The sun was down and the temperature kept dropping. Surely it was too early in the year for snow? She hoped so. She hadn’t brought a heavy coat with her.

Rule was in the ambulance with Cullen. Her mate-sense told her they were still in motion, so they hadn’t reached the hospital yet. But they’d get there well ahead of her and Scott, having left first. Before Lily could wade through the surging sea of reporters to the car, she’d needed to hand off evidence and get a bandage on her arm so it didn’t bleed onto her jacket.

Sherry had been right about the type of offering the elemental would require. The cut was small and tidy, on the inside of her elbow . . . her left elbow. That hand was working again. Not quite normally, but headed there. “I’m going to tell him. I want privacy for it.”

She hadn’t had that at Fagin’s place. Once the elemental agreed to release them, things had moved quickly. They’d had a brief window of time to seal the deal with blood, then scramble or be passed over the earthen wall. Then they’d been surrounded by cops of both local and federal flavors, with the press just the other side of the barricades.

“When are you going to tell him?”

“At the hospital, probably. You don’t argue like this with Rule.”

“You’re not my Rho. And I do get to argue with Rule if I think it’s important. Not during, but afterward.”

She sighed and shoved back her hair with her left hand. Those fingers still felt thick and clumsy, but she felt them. She could use them.

No pain bolt this time. Just a hand that forgot it was part of her body, or a brain that forgot how to talk to the hand. The paralysis hadn’t lasted long, but for a few minutes Lily had been scared shitless. She’d had Scott find her some coffee—old stuff that he’d heated up in the microwave. Maybe it had helped.

Lily let her hand drop to her lap. She closed the fingers in a loose fist. Opened them. Closed them. “Thank you for giving me time to tell him myself. I am going to. I’m not quite stupid enough to think I could keep this from him.” Or that she had any right to. But God, she was dreading it.

Rule was teetering on some unholy edge. She might not understand what that edge was, exactly, but she recognized it. She’d seen his eyes bleeding toward black like that before—when she was threatened, when he was locked up, when the first of the power winds blew shortly before the Turning.

She’d never seen the wildness try to take over, try to force the Change on him, when things were calm. He was angry that Cullen had been hurt, sure. But anger, even rage, didn’t threaten his control.

Maybe he’d felt trapped because of the ward? That plus the imminence of the full moon .

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