Inferno (Trinity Book 1) by Devin Fontaine

Author:Devin Fontaine [Fontaine, Devin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2017-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

A sorceress. If Faith weren’t so terrified, she’d laugh at the absurdity of the whole thing. But there was nothing amusing about the complete upheaval of her life. Nothing Faith knew about herself and her mother ended up being true. In fact, Faith no longer knew who she was. Who her mother was. What they were. The concept of sorcerers being real and not fiction… that in itself was nearly impossible to wrap her head around. Her mother telling Faith she would be able to both summon and control powers beyond anything humans thought possible, well, that pretty much turned her brain into a piñata and beat it into confetti.

Somehow, without her realizing how quickly time passed, it was Saturday again. Dante hadn’t shown up at the office since their disastrous meeting at Faith’s apartment Tuesday morning. The week went by fast but only because of the grenade her mother yanked the pin out of and chucked in Faith’s lap. She spent most of her time either sitting in her chair at work, stunned stupid, or on her bed at home doing the same. Her mother’s voice tore Faith out of her own head and back to the present.

“You must concentrate, darling. It’s like flexing a muscle you never knew you had.”

Faith huffed in frustration. They’d been at this for an hour and the only result was a pounding headache.

“I’m trying, Mom.” Faith closed her eyes and once again attempted to locate her so-called life force. A pulsing center of energy. She could feel it throbbing in the deep in her torso, a heated diamond-bright star. No doubt it existed. Faith could see it, but tapping into that brilliant nucleus, controlling it, summoning it, using it at her will—that turned out to be an entirely different matter. It was like wrestling a bag of ferrets… damn near impossible.

Faith inhaled and cleared her mind of everything to focus on the dazzling sphere of light. Slowly, she pulled from it, manipulating the energy and willing it to obey her command. A brilliant, glowing thread tugged free of the spinning nucleus. Using her mind, Faith worked the supernatural fiber until it gracefully extended down her arm to coil in her open hand.

“Faith,” Cressida said in hushed awe. “Look.”

She opened her eyes and gasped. What Faith thought to be a vision in her mind was real. A radiant ball of light and energy balanced in her palm. With a finger from her free hand, Faith poked the glowing orb. It gave way under the pressure and a divot formed on the side. When she pulled her finger back, it returned to its original shape.

“Wow.” Mesmerized by the physical proof of her ability, Faith stared at the light, awe-struck. “It’s beautiful.”

“It is,” her mother agreed. “Now, command it to do your will.”

Concentrating, Faith chewed on her lip and called upon the power within the light. The sphere trembled, then soundlessly exploded. Hundreds of tiny glowing particles rose to the ceiling of her mother’s shop and spread in a miniature galaxy.

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