Haunted by Shadows: Magic Wars: Demons of New Chicago Book Two by Carpenter Kel

Author:Carpenter, Kel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-06T16:00:00+00:00

18

I released a tight breath and lifted my head.

Morgan Le Fay watched me, her features impossible to read. After a suspended second where I wasn’t sure what to expect, she gave me a dismissive shrug and turned her back.

“You may prove interesting yet,” she said, not looking in my direction. If not for my advanced hearing, I wouldn’t have picked up on it. She took her seat and clapped twice. The doors on either side of the pit opened.

On the side where I came from, Sienna and Meatface stood waiting. Sasha was off to the side of them, her head turned stubbornly and black tail swishing with annoyance.

I hauled myself to my feet. Pain lanced through me with every shift of my weight as I walked toward them, trying to stand tall. My lips pressed into a firm line, dispassionate apathy my chosen shield, refusing to show them and everyone else how much a single glass shard could hurt me.

Only a foot past the door did I stop and turn. In the center of the pit, a young witch murmured the rights of passing, an incantation that when she tossed the salt in her hand on Trenton’s body, it burst into flame.

The last thing I saw was the skin melting from his face before the door slammed shut in a spray of sand. I closed my eyes to avoid the grit as it clouded the air.

The scent of burnt flesh made me want to gag.

Yet another reason I needed to keep myself under control.

My fire might wipe them all out, but I would be smelling it for a long time after.

“Get moving,” Meatface said. A thick hand barely had time to grasp my arm before a grunt came from behind me, and the appendage dropped away. I opened my eyes and turned back to them.

“Back off, Rafi.” Sienna stood too close for my liking, with her hands on her hips. Meanwhile, my so-called bodyguard took a step back, clasping his eye. “We had a deal. She won the fight.”

“You better watch yourself, kitten. I’ll hold up my end, but—” Rafi started. Sasha chose that moment to interfere, stepping between them, and grabbing him by the balls.

“No, you better watch yourself, Fido. The girl won, so she’s off limits. We need her alive for this work, or have you forgotten the pup you have on the line?” Her saccharine voice made him melt against his own will, but the mention of a pup had him bristling. He took another step back, a hard line puckering between his brows.

“You too?” he asked softly, then laughed once, but it rang with a cynical tenor. “Sienna I get. She’s always had a soft spot for the humans. But you? Sasha, have you forgotten what she’s done—”

The movement was so fast, had I been human like he claimed, I would have missed it.

One moment, Sasha stood there fuming. The next, her outstretched claws raked across his chest. Blood splattered us and the sand. He took a tight, pained breath.

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