Ghost of Himself by Pandora Pine

Author:Pandora Pine [Pine, Pandora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-07T16:00:00+00:00

19

Copeland

The tale of Jude Byrne just kept getting curiouser as time went on. Finding out Jude was a Navajo Hatalii was stunning. He’d sensed there was something…otherworldly, he supposed was the best word to use, about Jude, he just hadn’t been able to put his finger on it. This explained a lot, but not everything.

There was still something else about Jude that was setting off his psychic alarm bells, but he supposed now wasn’t the time to go excavating. He had enough shit to deal with. Like not being able to walk.

When he’d woken up this morning unable to move his legs, he’d been completely terrified. He’d remembered reading somewhere before about waking up too soon from REM sleep and having that initial feeling of being paralyzed, but he’d quickly realized that whatever this was, wasn’t passing. Cope had quickly tried to move everything else and found that he could thankfully move his arms and head. Speech was also possible.

All things considered, this attack could have been a lot worse. He could have been paralyzed completely. He could have been killed. There was no doubt in his mind now that whoever was behind this was capable of outright murdering him.

Once Jude was finished speaking with his grandfather, he was going to need to get in touch with Dempsey and Onyx to see if the person responsible for doing this to him could be traced. He wasn’t sure he was strong enough to withstand another attack like this. Most likely whoever was responsible for doing this knew where he was now and could very well be on their way here. Time was of the essence.

Cope could feel himself starting to slip back into that old mindset that this situation, this life as it was now, was inescapable. “Chin up, Buttercup,” was what the redheaded spirit always used to say to him. Then she’d sing. Usually beautiful Irish lullabies. He could hear them in his head now, playing on a loop.

The situation was different this time because he had friends to help him get through this. To help him survive. Back in Galveston, it had just been him and the four walls closing in on him. That cloying sense of desperation telling him the best thing to do was to end his own pain and suffering.

Maybe that was all part of the attack too. Hitting him at his lowest point and trying to get him to do the one thing the attacker wasn’t yet brave enough to do himself. Kill.

Cope had a feeling the gloves were off now. No more Mr. Nice Guy or Gal, as the case may be. Paralyzing him was just the first step in a more sinister game this time. He was going to need to be prepared for the next battle to come.

He couldn’t help wondering if some kind of reflection spell would work in this situation. When Cope had been hiding out in Galveston, he’d refrained from using any and all magick so that Deacon couldn’t use his signature to track him down and find him 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.