Jade Calhoun 06.5 Spirits of Bourbon Street by Deanna Chase

Author:Deanna Chase
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: MagiCal Press
Published: 2014-10-19T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

A flash of heat washed over me and then my body went completely numb. But I didn’t seem to care. Life was free. Happy. Full of celebration. I turned to Lucien. “Care to dance?”

He inclined his head, bowed slightly, then swept me up in the music. My feet seemed to move on their own. All I saw was Lucien’s smiling face and flashes of color as he twirled me around and around among the other dancers.

The music played on one continual loop, never pausing, and soon enough, although I didn’t want to sit the dance out, my limbs became heavy. But no matter how much I wanted to stop to take a breath, my limbs wouldn’t respond to my mental commands. And worse, I couldn’t keep the smile off my face.

I was trapped in a dancing hell, along with the rest of my friends and all the other party guests. My eyes met Lucien’s.

He had the same manic expression on his face I feared was on mine. But his eyes were searching mine, silently asking me the same thing I was asking myself. How did we end up here? I wasn’t sure. All I knew was we needed to stop. To get a drink. To do something other than move our feet.

With my limbs not responding, I gathered the ball of magic that lived just below my heart and sent it shooting toward my fingers.

The magic erupted from my fingertips like a bolt of lightning, knocking both me and Lucien backward. We each landed on our backsides, gawking at each other.

“What the hell was that, Jade?” Lucien said, jumping to his feet to loom over me.

I smiled up at him and pushed myself to my feet. “A wake-up call.” I waved a hand around the dance floor. “We were stuck just like they are.”

His expression turned blank as his gaze lingered on the fatigued dancers. Then recognition lit in his clear green eyes. “Damn. We were sucked right in, weren’t we?”

I nodded and moved to the side to avoid being kicked by one of the dancers. “We need to get to Julius.”

“Can’t we just zap everyone out of their state?”

I glanced down at my white cotton dress and black Mary Jane pumps, noting my devil outfit was nowhere to be found. I shook my head. “It doesn’t look like we’ve left this reality, does it?”

“No, but—”

“Besides, we don’t know everyone’s tolerance for a magical electric shock. It was okay for you and me, but we’re witches. They aren’t.”

He fixated on Kat, who was off to our right, and furrowed his brow. The worry clinging to him brushed up against my psyche. I wanted to put a hand on his arm, do or say something to comfort him, but I had no words. And I wasn’t completely sure that we wouldn’t end up like dancing monkeys again if we touched.

I was just as upset about what was happening to Kat as he was. She was my best friend. And then there was Kane.

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