Jozzie & Sugar Belle by Lilith Saintcrow

Author:Lilith Saintcrow [Saintcrow, Lilith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lilith Saintcrow, LLC

Twelve

Rat Named Sue

* * *

Sue, as usual, was whining. “If I knew, I’d tell you.”

My headache was spreading down my back, the passenger side of my beloved Rabbit was in ribbons, and it was painfully obvious the goddamn kangaroo shifter was having trouble, well, shifting. If he wanted me to help him find the shift, there was little I could do except throw some life-threatening shit in his path and hope it triggered.

The idea had some merit. I could even toss him under the stilt-legged cabin and sit back to enjoy the show. However, I was on a schedule, and the bigger problem was Sue the Rat thinking he was dealing with Jozzie instead of me. “Wrong answer.” I glanced at the stupid kangaroo and made a shooing motion. “You could be useful and get the cheese out of the car.”

Jozzie didn’t look away from the Rat. “Ent sure I should leave you with this bloke, mum. Seems a bit unreliable.”

I am perfectly capable of handling one cowardly rat shifter. My nape was sweating, and so was my lower back. The thick layer of sunscreen I’d applied was probably going to slide right off me despite all the charms. “Thank you for your concern. Either do what I tell you or you can fucking walk back to town.”

“Man, where did you find him?” Sue rocked back on his heels, lip lifting to expose his teeth. He could have whitened them, but he liked the nicotine stain. “He looks like one of mine, but on steroids.”

Testosterone patches count, right? I pushed my hair over my shoulder and quelled the urge to fold my arms. “He’s not your problem right now. I am. Where’s it going down?” That really wasn’t my question, but it would tell me exactly how much he knew.

And it did. “You think I’m in Quent Wheddon’s pocket? I told you, I don’t know where it’s going down.” He realized what he’d given me a split second after he said it, and I smiled as sweetly as possible with my head pounding and my throat full of dust.

People always tell me more than they intend to. It’s a constant, like the speed of light.

There was a tang of burning to the wind out here. The wildfires had started. Soon everything in the city would reek of smoke.

It wasn’t a surprise the hottest director of the past five years had found the Book. It wasn’t even a surprise that the asshole had probably been using it to stay at the top of the heap. The only surprise would be if it had taken him that long to get to the inevitable endpoint of using the biggest, most powerful necromancer’s tool—bound in human skin—which was, of course, apocalyptic.

Oh, sure, the book was probably whispering in his ear about power, luxury, women, fame. If he was stupid, he believed it; if he wasn’t, he was addicted to the rush of using the damn thing and didn’t care that the last few chapters

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