Inflame by Emma L. Adams

Author:Emma L. Adams [Adams, Emma L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781099121319
Google: j2NCxQEACAAJ
Amazon: B07PGH7J2R
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US
Published: 2019-05-17T04:05:57+00:00

12

I floated on the spot—floated, not stood, because I didn’t have a bloody clue where my body even was. When Lorne had tried to use the spirit device to draw my soul out of my body, the Moonbeam’s magic had stopped him. This time, I’d floated out of my body without even noticing. It shouldn’t be possible, yet my hands were transparent, and the fog thickened all around me.

A ghostly woman’s hands touched mine. “Join me in death.”

“She won’t,” said another female voice.

I knew that voice.

The ghost from my dreams, her eyes flaming, hovered at my side. She was real. In a ghostly sense, anyway.

“What the—?” My mouth dropped open. The female ghost looked as solid as I was, her hair long and curly, her eyes ashy grey.

The first ghost’s hand touched mine again. “Join me…”

“No thanks.” I yanked my hand away, unable to take my eyes off the newcomer. She’d walked out of my dreams. Or rather, walked into my dreams.

“I told you,” said the fiery-eyed ghost. “The fire runs in your veins, Cori.”

The fire runs in your veins. The same fire that had brought me back to life.

I wasn’t a prisoner in a cage any longer.

Magic hummed inside me, the echo of the Moonbeam’s power. I reached out and shoved the spirit away, and she went, floating backwards from my touch.

I turned to the fiery spirit. “My body—”

“You know the way back, Cori. Follow the Moonbeam’s fire.”

Fire. I imagined flames, crackling to my fingertips, triggering the shift. A breath choked my lungs and I dropped to my knees, cold—so cold. But solid. Pain shot up my knees, and I braced my hands on the metal floor.

Try to trap me in Death, will you?

The shift took over, and flames burst from my lungs, banishing the fog, sending the ghosts fleeing.

When the smoke cleared, Ember and Zeph stared at me across the room. “Damn, Cori, give some warning next time.”

The lab… I was still in the lab. I blinked around, my wings scraping the ceiling. Ow. Right… I’d shifted. I must have been standing frozen in here while my spirit drifted away.

Taking a careful, measured breath, I turned human again. “You’ve been here all along?”

“Yeah, but where have you been?” Ember’s eyes pinched with concern. “You went really quiet.”

“We found the witch who summoned that monster,” Zeph said. “Dead, back there. Must have been quick. Not a wound on her.”

The ghosts had pulled her out of her body. Just like they’d tried to do to me.

And the fiery-eyed ghost… was real. An ally, even. It shouldn’t be possible. Dragons and the dead were polar opposites, I’d thought. Then again, the dragon shifters had created the Moonbeam, and the Moonbeam embodied life and death.

So who was the woman? A dragon shifter? How had she got into my dreams?

Thorn whined, poking his head out from behind Ember’s leg.

“Is he okay?” I asked.

“He’s scared,” said Ember. “Can you blame him?”

“Nope.” What a waste of time. Not that the alternative was any better. We’d

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