Escaping the Ashes by Olivia Hardin

Author:Olivia Hardin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: magic, Lynlee Lincoln, paranormal romance, urban fantasy, phoenix, fallen angel
Publisher: Olivia Hardin
Published: 2016-12-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

I TAPPED MY FINGER against my glass and pondered whether to refill it again. Only by careful control had I managed not to get drunk, though I’d been imbibing steadily since I’d left the bar yesterday morning. I was a little bit surprised by it, but the Hotel had led me right to Red’s room and let me enter it even though she wasn’t here.

I made myself right at home.

The place was almost totally dark, and I found I liked it that way. I was slouched in a chair in the far corner of the room, my legs out in front of me. My mood was black, and I wanted to cling to that, to let it feed into me so that I wouldn’t falter when I saw her. Now that I knew what she’d done, I had no intention of letting her get away with it.

Selena had tried to calm me after I read the letter, and I hadn’t been exactly nice to her when I’d stomped out of the bar. Still, I wasn’t here to make friends. I’d come for one purpose and one purpose only. Somehow I’d let myself get distracted by Red, but that was a huge mistake I intended to remedy. She might be an incredibly good lay, but she was a murderess, and it was my job to take her in.

I stared at the wall in front of me, not really seeing it but letting my gaze blur a little. I was tired. I was buzzed. I was so pissed that I hoped I wouldn’t accidentally kill Red when she walked through the door.

And as if I’d willed it, she did. I sat up slowly, bringing my knees toward me and resting my palms against them. She flipped the switch, and I flinched as the bright light flooded the room. When she turned and saw me, she gasped, eyes wide before a smile lit her face.

“Aren’t you a sight for sore eyes.” She reached down to pull off her boots one by one. “Which is kind of weird since we just saw each other less than twenty-four hours ago, but I did kinda miss you, angel.”

Without speaking, I stood and advanced towards the middle of the room. She wasn’t watching me; instead she was removing her bustier and tossing it to the floor beside the dresser. I noticed a tear in her shirt and evidence of blood.

“You can’t believe how good it feels to get out of that thing. It’s great when one is going for the kick-ass look, but sometimes a girl just needs to decompress after a fight like I had.” Her hands grabbed her shirt in two fists, pulling the tucked material out of her skin-tight pants, then those fingers splayed wide and traced the line of her waist up to her tits. The look she tossed me dripped with sex.

“Like you did after your last kill? After Tabari and Alexia?”

The expression on her face crumbled and she blanched. “Vicente, I don’t know .

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