Indigo by Charlaine Harris

Author:Charlaine Harris
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

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Nora slipped through the shadows into her apartment for a moment, checking to see if everything was as it had been before she left. Yes, the body was still there.

That, at least, she could easily enough fix. There was no way to hide the signs of a struggle, but the corpse …

Guilt ran through her and sent swarms of icy butterflies through her stomach, freezing her guts.

Just one shadow, that was all it would take. Fortunately the room was full of them. She opened the shadowpath under the dead slaughter nun’s body and watched it sink into the blackness. In seconds the corpse was gone, lost to the blackness beyond the shadows.

She heard the Assholes hissing from behind curtains and beneath furniture, reacting to the presence of Indigo as they so often did. She was too tired to think of much of anything, but their presence was another layer of guilt. How many times could she terrify the little shits before they never trusted her again?

Swaying on her feet, she fought the crushing exhaustion that had finally begun to catch up with her. She couldn’t stay in her apartment right now, didn’t want to deal with the police if they showed up, so she stumbled into darkness again. The shadowpaths were so familiar, so comforting, but she could feel Damastes there with her, and somehow she seemed closer to him in the dark, so she emerged again on a rooftop across from her apartment building. The pool of deeper shadow beneath a water tower hid her well, and there she collapsed. Sleep had not been a part of her plan, but weariness seized her. Nora wrapped herself within a cocoon of darkness and dropped into a heavy slumber.

* * *

When she woke, hours later, her first thoughts were of Sam. The shadowpaths were easy enough to follow now that her mind had finally been allowed to relax from the constant state of danger. The sun was well up and the morning was progressing. Indigo emerged behind the shelter of a bus stop, half a block from the hospital, and divested herself of the cloak of darkness. Nora took stock of her appearance. Her clothes were wrinkled, yes, but she smoothed the front of her coat, pushed her fingers through her magenta-streaked hair, and she was good to go.

Three minutes at the reception desk got her Sam’s room number. Five more in the hospital cafeteria got her a large coffee that tasted like strained swamp water but had enough caffeine to make her eyes twitch. Just what the doctor ordered.

Sam was sitting up in his bed and picking at what had probably been breakfast sometime in the past. His fork had pushed the bits and pieces around until nothing recognizable was left. Another bed was in the room but at present it was empty. He’d won the dubious honor of sleeping alone in a double room.

“Sam?”

He looked up from the ruination of his food and offered her an expression that warred between an exhausted smile and a frown.

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