Firewalker by Allyson James

Author:Allyson James
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Paranormal, Fiction, Romance, Paranormal Romance Stories, Shapeshifting, General
ISBN: 9780425237823
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2010-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

I swam to wakefulness inside a moving vehicle. It was mercifully quiet, except for the occasional burst of static from a police radio. My head was cushioned against a strong thigh, and an equally strong hand smoothed my hair.

Opening my eyes didn’t help much. It was daylight—I thought—but I stared at the dark, bare floorboards of someone’s backseat. I groaned.

“Can you knock her out again?” Nash asked from the front.

Mick leaned over me, his touch gentle. “You okay, sweetheart?”

“No.”

The word dragged out from my tight mouth. I could barely move my lips, or anything else for that matter. I lay on Mick’s comfortable lap for a long time, getting my bearings and feeling absolutely shitty. The Beneath magic was gone—where, I didn’t know—and it had left me with a hell of a hangover. Or maybe that was the martinis.

“I told you ten times already,” Maya said from somewhere in front of me. “I don’t know anything about a dead guy in the hotel room. I booked the room, but we decided not to go in. We went to a strip club instead. With male strippers. I paid a hundred bucks for a lap dance.” Maya was lying—she’d never gotten near the strippers.

“I don’t want to hear it,” Nash said in a tight voice.

“His ass was way better than yours.”

I laughed, which quickly turned into a cough. “Can I have some water?”

Mick helped me sit up against him and fed me water from a sports bottle. I almost choked on it.

He patiently wiped my mouth with a tissue, and I looked up into his worried eyes. “It’s gone,” I said. “The Beneath magic. I don’t have a drop left.”

I didn’t. Outside the windows, deep banks of clouds hugged the approaching mountains, a good old-fashioned storm building. The storm tingled through my blood, but the Beneath magic had fled. Not forever; I knew that.

“Janet, Nash thinks we killed someone,” Maya said. “You and me. Can you believe it?” Her voice begged me to support her in the lie.

Nash’s hands tightened on the wheel. “There was a bloody corpse on the hotel room floor. The only reason you two aren’t locked behind heavy bars is because I vouched for you. It looked like the guy had been turned inside out. Sound familiar?”

I leaned back against Mick. “I didn’t kill him, and neither did Maya. Jim did. He killed the guy in Magellan too, a hiker. I don’t know who the hiker was.”

Nash gave me a furious glance in the rearview mirror. “Who the hell is Jim?”

“Jim Mohan. He was a guest at my hotel. He’s dead too, stabbed up at Homol’ovi a couple days ago. Not by me,” I added quickly.

“If he was stabbed a couple days ago, how the hell did he kill someone in Maya’s hotel room tonight?”

“He got resurrected. I don’t know who by. Now he’s undead and out of control.”

“Undead,” Nash repeated. “Right.”

“Where is he?” I asked. “Jim, I mean. He was in the club when it came down.”

“They didn’t pull anyone out,” Mick said.

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