Kasey Mackenzie - 03 Blackhearted Betrayal by Kasey Mackenzie

Author:Kasey Mackenzie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-01-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

HAVING HER ARMS WRAP AROUND ME FELT like coming home, more so even than when Mom had miraculously walked back into my life, mostly because Nan had taken a sabbatical from the Sisterhood that first decade of my life to raise me while Dad held down his prealcohol nine-to-five, and Mom did her thing as an active Fury. Don't get me wrong, Mom had been an amazing mother in the short twelve years I had her, but she'd never been the homemade-cookies and bread-fresh-from-the-oven type like her mother had been.

Then reality intruded, and I pushed away to regard her in horror. Grayscale coloring and snakes in tattoo form pointed to the ugly truth my brain had initially tried to ignore. She was, without a doubt, a full-on shade. Meaning she could only be ...

"But, but how did you die? You seemed fine a few hours ago. Unless ...that wasn't you at all." Gods, had that not been her in the hospice all those years? "We all thought you killed Medea!"

Her lips twisted grimly. "I killed her Harpy ass all right; but she made a pact with the devil beforehand. When her body died, she managed to throw her spirit inside mine. I've spent the last twenty damned years fighting that bitch for control."

Gone was every ounce of the former sisterly affection that had sent Maeve hunting to put Medea out of her misery. Though after two decades of a living nightmare, who could blame her? "So, wait. If you didn't die, then why, "

"Am I trapped in this hellhole as a shade?" She folded her arms with a distinctly crabby expression. "It was the damnedest thing a few months ago. We were lying in that hospital bed the same as usual when something, changed. Felt like yet another spirit wormed its way inside my body, and nothing I did made a lick of difference. They'd quiet down now and again, and I'd feel like maybe I might finally get the strength to wake all the way up, but then, the devil himself stepped in."

"Anubis." I'd done the math, and nothing else added up. Stacia wouldn't have bothered visiting Nan for all those years if she hadn't known good and well her lover was inside her enemy's physical shell. They'd obviously made whatever pact they had with Anubis prior to Nan's attacking Medea, and Stacia had probably been trying to help oust Nan completely during her visits, with no luck. Her bargain with Satan, er, Anubis, had then kicked in when I killed her crazy butt several months ago, allowing her to bolster her lover's spiritual strength until they finally wrested control from Nan right before my serial-killer case kicked into high gear. They'd forced Nan out of her own body, and Anubis had held her hostage here since her body still lived, and he couldn't risk Nan's shade ratting him out to the powers that be.

I let out a breath. "Medea has your body in the Palladium. Meaning you're not truly dead, and we still have a chance to restore you.

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