Kiss of Magic: A Paranormal Fantasy Romance (Immortal Hearts Book 5) by Lilah T. Bane

Author:Lilah T. Bane [Bane, Lilah T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aero Productions
Published: 2023-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

Twenty Nine

Washington D.C.

Immediately the dampener was gone, Dani’s connection to the energy around her was restored. It flooded into her. Potential energy, kinetic energy, light, heat – her cells drank it up as if they were parched.

Her synapses fired and flared, her nervous system rebooted, and strength surged back into her body. The last remnants of pain and weakness were washed away.

She rose to her feet like a vampire from a casket, from prone to upright in one unnatural move as if pulled by strings. Magic crackled around her, through her, and she exhaled in bliss. Blake thought he’d never seen her eyes so vivid when she glanced down at him coldly.

“Finally. Thanks for taking your time, hunter.”

“I have a feeling I’m going to regret this,” he muttered.

“Oh, there’ll be a lot of regret, I assure you.” She looked at Denara. “That wasn’t very nice.”

“It was a means to an end, my dear,” Denara said soothingly. “It worked, didn’t it? And to show we’re still friends, I’m going to let you finish the hunter.”

“That’s too kind.” Dani let energy gather in her hands. Strands of her hair lifted, buffeted by an invisible breeze. Blake heard the unmistakable crackle of power building up around her.

“You don’t have to do this, Blue,” he said urgently. “You’re better than this. You think she’s offering you freedom? It’s just another kind of prison. Think about it for a second…”

“For once in your life, would you shut the fuck up?” She threw him an exasperated look. “Stop mansplaining. It’s annoying.”

“I’m not going to beg, if that’s what you want.”

“Never thought you would.” Her cells reached peak capacity and she smiled grimly. “Now shut your eyes.”

Then she blasted the troll into smithereens.

Blake shielded his head as rock-like body parts rained down. Denara stared in shock.

“Why?”

“Because Blake’s right, much as I hate to admit it. You and your dark mage friends are psycho. A bunch of madmen tried to impose a new world order here once, in this realm, did you know that? It ended in war and genocide. I want no part of that.”

“But you would live like a queen! You would have everything you ever wanted!”

“Everything but my sanity. Sorry, bitch. No deal.”

Denara’s face tightened with anger.

“If you won’t co-operate through free will, then you’ll do so through coercion. You’ll find dark magic can be very persuasive, my dear.”

She raised her hands. Thick rope-like twines erupted from the ground, stretching and undulating towards Dani across the small space, intending to pinion her. Dani blocked the magic with her own, changing the twines to rose petals that fluttered around her.

“You can’t beat me,” she said. “I’m the key. I have the power of the ancients in my blood.”

“And I have dark magic in mine,” hissed the older witch.

She raised her hands again and this time she blasted witchfire from her fingers. Dani met it with her own. The two streams of green smashed into each other with a high-pitched whine. The resulting sparks were so bright, Blake had to turn away.

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