Jinn and Juice by Peeler Nicole

Author:Peeler, Nicole [Peeler, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Urban, Fiction / Fantasy / Urban, Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / Fantasy, Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction
ISBN: 0316407356
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2014-11-25T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

My dressing room was blessedly cool and even more blessedly empty. With a sigh I lowered myself down onto my chaise, curling up into a ball.

I still ached everywhere, although I’d take this ache over my previous agony anytime. But it wasn’t physical bruising that had me so upset; it was my emotional imbalance.

What the hell was that back there? I mused. I’d never used so much power for anything or anyone, ever. And that didn’t make any sense.

I tried to logic it out. Oz was a powerful Magi. Maybe it was his strength that had made me pull so deep.

But that was bullshit. Oz was strong, but not anywhere near as powerful as some of my previous Masters.

So maybe it was Pittsburgh’s juice? That could be it… the power had a mind of its own sometimes. Maybe opening myself up like that had allowed it free rein…

But that’s where the “blame Pittsburgh” logic broke down. Even if the magic had taken control, that didn’t explain how I’d opened myself so wide for it.

Or how I’d used it.

I sighed, shutting my eyes. The only other variable was Oz. I had been lying to him, and to myself, when I’d said my jinni had taken over entirely. Yeah, she had taken over. But she’d taken over many times throughout my life, and nothing like this had ever happened.

Because I’d been fighting her every other time, and this time I hadn’t.

I’d wanted her to take over. I’d wanted her to save Oz, in a way I’d never wanted my jinni to take care of any of my other Masters. Even the ones who’d been pretty okay—if they died I was free, and I’d always been fine with that.

I just haven’t been Bound in so long, I told myself. I’ve lost perspective.

So I tried to remind myself. I was dealing with Magi—a race of humans taught that another species of being existed simply to serve them, whether they liked it or not. Magi had no problem yanking jinn away from their smoky lives Sideways, from their jinni families and friends. And powerful Magi tribes would keep a jinni forever if they could, passing down a Binding from parent to child. I’d met some jinn who’d forgotten freedom; others who’d gone mad—like caged tigers—from centuries of captivity.

It was only luck, and Charlie’s interference, that meant I wasn’t one of those jinn, rattling against my cage with vacant, fiery eyes.

And Oz was one of them, I reminded myself. He was a Magi…

I felt fat tears in my eyes again, felt them hot on my cheek as they rolled down toward my parted lips.

He is a Magi, I repeated.

A Magi who flinched every time I called him Master. A Magi who never looked at me as if I were his toy. A Magi who hadn’t tried any funny business with me. A Magi who kept asking me to fucking dinner.

I jumped to my feet and headed toward our small bathroom to wash my face. Bent over the sink, sudsing my salty cheeks, I heard the door to our dressing room open.

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