Doomsday Can Wait by Handeland Lori

Author:Handeland, Lori [Handeland, Lori]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Urban, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal
ISBN: 9780312947163
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2009-04-28T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

The buzzing of my cell phone tumbled me out of the vi-sions. I reached for it with my free hand, the other still over my chest. I needed to return to New Mexico. I had to figure out where they'd gone.

"Hello?"

"Don't come after us."

"Summer?"

"He needs to be alone. I can help him."

"If you're going to help him then he won't be alone," I pointed out.

"I've blocked you."

I sat up. "And how can you do that? For that matter, how did you know I was there?"

"I'm a fairy," she said, as if that explained everything.

"Big fucking hairy deal." I was so articulate when I was furious. "How did you zap Jimmy? What happened to your magic not working on DKs and seers?"

"It isn't that my magic doesn't work on you, it doesn't work on those on errands of mercy."

"So?"

"I doubt Jimmy recalls what mercy means at the moment."

She was right, but I still didn't like it.

"The reason I sent you was because I knew—" I stopped, not wanting to say it, but Summer had no problem.

"You knew I'd think of him first. That I'd protect him, even from you."

"Things have changed," I said. "The woman of smoke is the leader of the darkness."

"She can't be. You're still alive and annoying."

I almost laughed. If I hadn't been so panicked about the situation, I might have. Quickly I told her what Carla had told me.

"It doesn't matter," she said. "Nothing's changed."

"Everything's changed. She's trying to open the gates of hell and release the Grigori."

"That's her job."

"And it's my job to kill her before she does it." If I actually killed the leader of the darkness rather than one of her minions, everything should go back to normal. Or as normal as it got.

"I thought we'd have more time to replenish the federation," I continued. "More time for Jimmy to get his shit together, but we don't. Bring Jimmy and meet me at Sawyer's; we'll figure this out."

"No," she said. "Jimmy isn't ready. He has to find himself again before he can give himself to the cause."

"There won't be a cause if he doesn't come back!"

"You told me to do anything," she murmured.

"Now I'm telling you to bring him in."

"I won't," Summer said. "I can't."

"I'm going to kill you," I muttered.

"You're going to try." She didn't sound worried. She didn't need to be. To kill her, first I'd have to find her.

"I'll do what I can as quickly as I can," she continued, and I knew that I'd lost. I think I'd known I was going to lose from the beginning.

"Wait," I said desperately, before she hung up. "You know a few DKs, so does Jimmy."

"Yes," she agreed warily.

"Get in touch with them. I need one to watch Megan Murphy in Milwaukee." I told her about the seer's death on my doorstep, and how I feared that others might come and experience the same fate.

"I'll send someone," Summer agreed. "He can take out any lurking Nephilim and inform any seers who show up that they should disappear again.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.