Deep Blue Sea: Heartstone Thief 1.5 by DaCosta Pippa

Author:DaCosta, Pippa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crazy Ace Publishing
Published: 2019-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

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Blue

Impossible.

How could he resist my songs? When the first melody hadn’t worked, I tried another that had never failed me. And still he’d resisted. Worse, he had smiled like I was some little creature to be laughed around.

They had always wept, wept and begged and moaned, before the song took them and they fell at my feet. But this one! No. This one had smiled.

He wasn’t smiling now.

I’d carried him and his torch into a cave far along the beach where none would stumble upon us, and there he lay on the damp floor, among the rocks and flotsam.

I stabbed the torch into the sand and let it burn away the dark. The firelight lapped over him like gentle waves. Asleep, his face appeared serene and younger now that the lines around his eyes were relaxed. He might be invulnerable to my song, but that wouldn’t save him. I could kill him while he slept. It would be right. He had already killed one of us, and this Night was too short for games.

So why did I hesitate? My one night to feast, and I was in a cave, watching this man sleep. That would not do.

He lay on his side, hair fallen over his eyes and along his jaw. His chest rose and fell in a slow, steady rhythm. I pushed my toes against his hip and nudged him. Once. Twice. He didn’t wake.

Crouching, I found his weighted coat pocket and reached inside. The thief latched onto my wrist. Wide-eyed and wary, he held on and squeezed hard enough to summon pain, and then he let go and shuffled back against the rocks. When he ran a hand through his hair, sweeping it out of his eyes, a fresh coldness shone in his dark eyes. I’d seen that coldness when he killed my sister. He would not hesitate to kill me. Behind his smiles and humor, something dangerous lurked.

“My friend will come for me,” he said.

“Your friend?” The man my sister had sung to. I stood and backed up, placing myself between him and the only way out. “He is susceptible. You had better hope he does not come or I will devour his song too.”

He fell quiet. Drips plinked into pools and distant waves rumbled against the shore. “You were there?” he finally asked.

“I witnessed you kill my sister, yes.”

He winced. So, he wasn’t all cold and unfeeling.

“You look different from the other one,” he noted with a jerk of his chin.

“She tried to take him too soon. She had not changed yet.”

Curiosity lent his gaze a keen edge, but a wary one too. “And you have changed? So, then, you’re one of them too? A siren?”

I didn’t answer, didn’t need to. He saw the truth of me, in my eyes, on my face, in my body. I was changed, but only enough to walk upright on land. The truth of me was exposed for all to see. His gaze twitched from my face and down over my body, and I let him take me in with his hungry human eyes.

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