Lycan on the Edge by Bardsley Michele

Author:Bardsley, Michele [Bardsley, Michele]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Freeman Publications
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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“YOU WANT ME to what?” asked Meckenzie.

“Be the key to unlocking Broken Heart,” repeated Ena the Evil.

“I thought your big, bad monsters were going to crash through its barriers and—how did you put it?—oh yeah, crush your enemies.”

“I’ve opted for a more subtle approach.”

Ha. Ena wouldn’t know subtle if it bit her on the ass. The truth was that Ena had been freaked out since she’d found the first Alberich she’d raised in Oregon dead as a fucking doornail.

The weirdest thing, though, was that he’d been turned to stone and broken into pieces.

Now Ena was worried that she’d underestimated Broken Heart’s security measures. Apparently, the know-it-all didn’t actually know it all. The fact that an Alberich could be killed hadn’t hindered Ena’s plot, but the witch decided to re-assess the situation. The easiest way for her and her monsters to get into town was to have someone unlock the door, so to speak, from the inside.

That would be me. Meckenzie stared at the campfire. What she wouldn’t give for a hotel room, a hot bath, and a bottle of Jack Daniels. Day eleventy-hundred of being Ena’s bitch. God, she was tired of the witch’s bullshit. Being a thief was one thing. She could live with that. Being the asshole who started a parakind war? Not so much.

“Do this one thing for me, and your mother’s soul is yours.”

Meckenzie had heard that promise before. “You’re only saying that because you’re hoping I’ll get killed before you have to honor your word.”

“So what? I mean it this time.”

“Then take the witch’s oath.”

Ena grimaced, but she pulled her personal book of shadows out of her rucksack. “C’mon. Put your hand on it.”

Meckenzie did so with some amount of trepidation. Ena draped her fingers over Meckenzie’s and said, “I hereby give my oath to release Mary Braith’s soul to her one and only daughter, Meckenzie, after she fulfills the bargain made to me this day.”

She looked up at Meckenzie. “Do you swear to gain entrance to Broken Heart and allow me and the Alberich to enter the town unimpeded?”

“I swear.” As if she had any real choice in the matter.

Meckenzie tried to wiggle out of Ena’s grasp, but the witch clamped her hand down pressing her palm painfully against the bumpy ridges of the book’s cover.

“Your life is forfeited if I do not succeed.” Her grin showed pure evil. “So mote it be!”

Black magic curled up from the book and twisted around Meckenzie and the witch’s hands. Heat blazed from the strands. It felt like Meckenzie was being branded. But she didn’t scream. Wouldn’t give Ena the satisfaction.

Finally, when she could, Meckenzie yanked away. Her skin looked normal. No burns or blisters. “What the fuck!”

“Oh for—there’s no pleasing you! You should be happy I made the bargain.”

“Color me thrilled,” Meckenzie said through gritted teeth. She curled her hands into fists and pressed them against her sides so she wouldn’t punch Ena in the throat. “Get going,” said Ena.

“Sure. I’ll just lope out of the forest and hitch a ride to an invisible town in nowhere Oklahoma.

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