Mages and Masquerades: An Urban Fantasy Novel (Magic Blood: The Warlock Book 2) by Katerina Martinez & Tansey Morgan

Author:Katerina Martinez & Tansey Morgan [Martinez, Katerina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Supernal Publishing
Published: 2018-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

I was alone with him again. Levi, the man I had spent a week living with, but whose real name I had only just learned. James, the stranger with whom I was hiding from the nefarious, clandestine forces whose agenda involved the tearing of a hole between our dimension and the home of demons and nightmares. Only now I wasn’t hiding anymore, now I was searching again. Back when I was a hunter, the thought of being mixed up in something like this with people like Levi, Ivy, Morpheus, and Tank, strangers all, would have sent up way too many red flags. I would have dumped them all and gone the distance by myself.

After all, if you want something done right, you’ve gotta do it yourself.

Things such as they were, though, I was starting to realize that maybe, just maybe, I was happy for the help. Sometimes. Not all the time. Ivy, though the most experienced of them, was a loose cannon, and I didn’t enjoy having to divide my focus between the task at hand and reining her ass in. Morpheus was woefully inexperienced on the field, and I didn’t think he’d be of much use if it came down to a firefight. Tank meant well, but I could sense just how fine his trigger was, and I knew it was only by sheer miracle that I hadn’t seen him toe over the line yet.

Of all of them, Levi’s head was the one most tightly screwed on, but he was too tightly wound all the time, too anxious to know the next move, to enact the next part of the plan and make sure it was done correctly. I had never met an Elemancer like him before; they were like fire, wind, and water—fluid in their movements, graceful, quick to adapt. Levi was about as rigid as they came, and it had only gotten worse ever since Mason made his entrance.

Part of me understood, the other part of me wanted not to because understanding meant acknowledging a simple, but dangerous truth; Levi had something invested in me. Maybe I was being premature, maybe I was misreading the situation, but considering reading people was my bread and butter, I was pretty sure I wasn’t wrong. Mason had arrived, and now Levi was tense, and stiff, and a little distant.

I thought I’d try to change that.

We were sharing a late dinner—or an early breakfast, whichever you wanted to call it—again, both of us sitting on the couch, our feet draped across the air-bed in the middle of the room. Levi set what was left of his food aside and relaxed into the couch. When I saw that he was done, I turned to look at him, pulling my feet up to my knees and staring, trying to figure him out.

“Are you…” he watched me, tentatively, “Are you reading my mind?”

I shook my head, and I could smell the shampoo in my freshly washed and dried hair. Mint. “No,” I said, “But I want to.

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