Forged of Shadows by Jessa Slade

Author:Jessa Slade [Slade, Jessa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal, Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Romantic suspense fiction, Supernatural, Historical, Demonology, Good and evil
ISBN: 9780451229779
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc
Published: 2010-05-31T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Jilly bit her lip. Not that such a tiny sting could obliterate the sensation of Liam’s mouth crushing hers.

Her whole body tingled, as if his mouth had been all over her. No wonder the demon realm had tossed them back; even hell recognized the unacceptable temptation between them.

He was her boss. And an arrogant jerk most of the time. Plus, he hadn’t really wanted to kiss her.

Not true, her body screamed. Even the most unrepentant demon with its cozening lies couldn’t have faked that erection. He’d wanted it, and by God, she wanted him to admit it. He couldn’t just keep using this intense chemistry between them as the flash powder in his demon skirmishes. Too many more scorching kisses like that and she’d blow up too.

Yeah, hell so didn’t want any part of this battle.

“They’re gone.” Liam rose to his feet, graceful as always, as if they hadn’t just wrestled free of the demon realm. Tongue wrestling apparently counted.

But he was right about the gone part. Nothing remained in the hallway except the two crescent knives on the floor, smeared in blood and birnenston. Corvus, the salambes, even the sparkle of slivered souls, gone. “Was Corvus sucked into the trap?”

Liam shook his head. “If the djinni had been, the body would still be here.”

He held a hand out to her and pulled her to her feet. He kept her hand in his and gently twisted her wrist so the bracelet winked at them. The crevices of the knot work gleamed with a strange iridescence. “Like ichor stuck in its teeth,” he murmured thoughtfully. “The mouth of the trap. And the throat led back to the tenebraeternum to swallow them all. My ever-hungry ravager is suitably impressed.”

“And I’m a little . . . unsettled,” Jilly said. Admitting as much rankled, but she’d seen he didn’t bear the weight of command lightly. “Why did this come to me? I’m the last person on earth who ever wanted to trap anyone.”

“Who better to be in charge of it?”

“Um, you? You’re clan chieftain of the league anyway.”

“It’s too narrow a torque to fit around my neck. For whatever reason—the teshuva’s reason—the power came to you, Jilly.”

What did she fear? The power the bracelet gave her over evil? Or the implied power that Liam, as chief evil fighter, had over her? She was totally willing to hand him the knot-work trap, and she trusted him with the fate of the world, yet still her heart raced when he touched her.

His blue eyes turned unfathomable, and he released her to collect his hammer. “The commitments never waver. And neither can we.”

When he straightened, he seemed taller than ever. She stiffened her spine to match him. Tentatively, she reached out with her demon senses, not much different from trying to sniff out the first whiff of something burning on the stove. “No tenebrae left in the building. The malice outside are gone too.”

“Escaped or sucked down.” He pulled out his cell phone. Over the hiss of a bad connection, he spoke quickly.

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