Harlequin Nocturne January 2016 Box Set by Michele Hauf

Author:Michele Hauf
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459294509
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 25

“Martine!” the warlock called. One of the zombies moved forward from the pack, seeking the commanding voice. “Get behind me, husband.”

The male zombie in the tattered damask breeches shambled over behind the warlock.

Ed joined Tamatha’s side in the salt circle and clasped her hand. She in turn clasped her mother’s hand. She wasn’t sure where Rascon was, but he’d served his purpose. Only time would tell if the family curse had been broken.

Right now, she had a more dire problem with which to deal. The vial hanging from Arius’s necklace must be blood. The blood of her dead husband? Had to be. It was key to sending the zombies back to the grave.

Petrina began to chant a reinforcement spell that would increase any magic they used. Ed cast up a black smoke that surrounded them in the salt circle. He’d stepped into the circle?

“How’d you do that?” she whispered, with a glance to the salt.

“Must be our bond. I can feel it prick at me, but since your grandmother took her hand off me, I feel a hell of a lot better than I have for days. Strong.”

Maybe the curse had been broken?

Lysia spit and called out to her coven with a rangy howl that would have called werewolves had they been in the vicinity.

“Yes,” Arius directed with her staff. “Gather, witches! There is one of my targets standing before us now. Search for the other! He was directly responsible for the flames that ate away your flesh and blood.”

Two zombies shambled off in search of Rascon.

Arius put back her hand holding the staff and Martine grasped it. Tamatha thought he held the staff more for support since his head seemed dangerously close to falling off.

Fingers coved to bracket her head, Arius began to chant. It wasn’t Latin, and her voice seemed to double and then break off into unison of horrific sounds.

“She’s speaking in demonic tongues,” Ed said. “Shit!” His entire body cringed and their bond allowed Tamatha to feel his pain wash through her system. Electric and sharp, it cut at her from within.

“Break your bond right now,” Petrina demanded, “or you’ll never have the strength to fight the warlock. Drop his hand!”

She did so, reluctantly shaking off Ed’s hand, but when he responded by also pulling away, she knew that even though it hurt in her very soul, she had done the right thing.

“Gather flame,” she recited and began to draw up her magic.

Arius laughed odd, wicked laughter that crackled like ice. But when Lysia suddenly turned and began to stalk toward her, the warlock silenced. “Mind your place, witch!”

And Tamatha took a moment to regroup. Zombies were flesh and earth. So a little earth magic... Focusing on the surrounding graves and the little space of land between them, she called up the earth, which exploded around them in a cloud of darkness.

Ed mixed in his dark smoky magic that seemed to adhere to the earth particles and spark when it hit the zombies. Some cried out; others fought against the substance as if it were flames.

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