Drawing Down the Mist by Sheri Lewis Wohl

Author:Sheri Lewis Wohl [Wohl, Sheri Lewis]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781635553420
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2019-01-09T05:00:00+00:00

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Katrina sensed the daylight dawning outside the blackout drapes of the hotel suite. It weighed on her heavily, yet she still resisted the pull. A great many things were going through her mind. A myriad of tasks to accomplish in the coming hours, and she didn’t want to waste time by resting. The urge to resist was as powerful as the urge to lie down.

The biggest problem wasn’t all that she needed to do to accomplish her coup. No. She couldn’t get her out of her mind. She wanted to see her face sooner rather than later. Now. She wanted to stand before her this very moment. Not tomorrow. Not the next day. Now.

Even as a child she’d been this way—impatient and demanding. It was a survival mechanism. She’d embraced it as a human, gloried in it as the superior being she had become. She didn’t have to wait for satisfaction or the obedience of those who surrounded her. She demanded and received it.

Only one had been contrary enough to defy her. In any other circumstance she would say strong enough to defy her and live. Not just live but also evade her and thrive as if throwing that very success in her face. She refused to think of this person as possessing the necessary strength and intelligence to become a ghost. Strength hadn’t put her out of her reach for so long; it was dumb luck.

Like others who foolishly thought fortune was on their side, her luck had finally run out. The ghost had been found. She would bow before Katrina before another twenty-four hours elapsed. That’s why Katrina was fighting so hard against the darkness that demanded her acquiescence. Her racing mind was warring with her bodily needs. Slumber was getting in the way of her glorious victory. She didn’t want to waste precious time.

It didn’t matter what she wanted. Ultimately she would lose only one fight, and it was the battle against rest. Her strength was legendary, her determination the envy of all, but she wasn’t immune to the whims of the universe that set the rules for her kind.

She’d been railing against this complication for a very long time. It didn’t make sense to her. How could the most powerful beings on the planet be brought to their knees by something as stupid as daylight? It wasn’t right, and to her way of thinking there had to be a way around it. She’d been trying to find it for centuries and was close.

Clearly not close enough, or she’d be out there right now watching the waves of change flow over the city. When the sun set and she was able to rise, things would be different everywhere. Once she had her empire established, her research project to counteract the effects of daylight would go into overdrive. She’d put the best and the brightest on task to solve this particular quirk.

A plan formulating, she relaxed into the comfortable bed, her mind calming as well, and as it did, her thoughts returned to another time.

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