Ignite: A New Adult Urban Fantasy (Spelldrift: Coven of Fire Book 2) by Sierra Cross

Author:Sierra Cross
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781938767272
Publisher: Enigmatic / Elixir
Published: 2017-07-05T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

L ike a bullet, I exploded through the loading bay doors and half-stumbled down the dusty-smelling stairs. The heavy thud of footsteps behind me kicked my heartbeat into hummingbird gear, but I reminded myself no one was chasing me. The Neq security guard behind me kept his distance, as if to monitor me, not take me down. As I flailed and collided with Asher, the Neq watched with a neutral expression, tattooed arms folded across his massive chest. He was loyal to Tenebris, and Tenebris didn’t want me dead.

That Caedis’s plans for me made death look pretty good.

Asher threw out his hand like he was going to launch a firebolt at the Neq. I stopped him with a headshake. Whatever unholy truce we were operating under was fragile. No need to risk it.

“You good to go?” Asher asked.

“Yeah, fine. Let’s get out of here.” I tried to ignore the throbbing pain that radiated from my shoulder, where the demon blast hit me.

We hopped in the car and burned rubber flying out of the Millennium Dynamic’s parking lot. The pain in my shoulder was radiating outward, reaching for the top of my chest and around my back. As we raced through the empty streets, I started to give Asher the highlights of my demon-party crashing from the passenger seat.

The cave-like room, dimly aglow with green demon lanterns.

My aunt’s conspicuous absence among the rabid Tenebris stalwarts.

The Caedis anointing the handsome Omni—his future skinsuit—with the bloody amulet.

“So help me.” Asher’s hands clenched on the steering wheel. “Those demon bastards killed Marley, for some vampire trinket, and I’m going to make sure every one of them is turned to dust.”

“We’re one step closer to that now.” Gritting my teeth from the pain in my shoulder, I let out a slow breath. A cold sweat had broken out across my forehead. “I wish I could have found out more before I got uncloaked. But at least now we have something to report back to Bonaventura.”

“Dare I ask,” Asher said, “how you got uncloaked? And how you happen to still be in one piece?”

Trying to keep it together, I told him about Tenebris. About the window portal to the Demon Realm, which the exiled demon used as a video call to communicate realm-to-realm with his followers. And today—gulp—also with me. His “queen.” Somehow, he saw me as his. My willingness, or lack thereof, didn’t seem to factor into his plans. Wow, this pain was greater than any demon blast I’d had before.

Asher, who’d been driving and listening, grim-faced, exploded into a creative storm of curses. “Of course the bloody Caedis don’t care about consent,” he finished. “The bastards have always done whatever they wanted, and who. We’re all just so much meat to them. They see the Earthly Realm as their private hunting ground.”

I shuddered. “Thank God his hunting license has been revoked.” For a few decades at least, thanks to Aunt Jenn.

“I fear you still haven’t grasped the Jupiter-sized mass of a Caedis ego.” Asher’s bitter words made me wonder what other run-ins he’d had with Caedis in the past.

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