Magic Awakening: An Urban Fantasy Novel (The Spirit War Chronicles Book 1) by Stephen Allan

Author:Stephen Allan [Allan, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sypha Entertainment, Inc.
Published: 2016-12-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

I woke up to Carsis muttering something under his breath I couldn’t make out. Given that Brady apparently knew how to broach the spiritual realm and had rescued me, I didn’t see a whole lot of point in pretending to be asleep anymore. I quickly sat up but groaned as the soreness in my body washed over me like waves on the beach. Brady crouched beside my bed. Behind him, Nicholas rested on a bed, where Richard and DJ stood, talking quietly but not distraught. Carsis was at the door, walking out.

“You doing OK?” he asked.

“Yeah,” I lied, but I wasn’t going to admit the pain even if he pushed me. I had more pressing concerns. “You’ve got a lot of explaining to do.”

Brady didn’t even bother to shrug to acknowledge his situation. The only positive I took from that moment was that Nicholas didn’t seem dead, and I wasn’t either.

“Where do you want me to begin?” Brady asked.

“Hmm, maybe at the part where you knew how to find me. And don’t say because I went into the men’s bathroom. I mean how did you know all of what was going on? You might as well start from square zero, not square one.”

“Fair enough,” he said.

I was a bit surprised to see him this accepting. It wasn’t the Brady I knew. Even though I was pissed at him, a bit of fear crept in that he was entangled beyond his desire—as seemingly all of us were in this room.

“You asked how I knew where you were going. Yes, the men’s bathroom played a role, because it helped me limit where you had gone in the spiritual realm.”

“So you do know.”

And here came the defeated shrug. I was pissed off, yes, that he hadn’t revealed this to me before, but on the other hand, he’d seemed willing to talk last night. Things had come up—I wasn’t that angry.

“Yeah.”

“And how do you know? Devil’s Eye?”

“Sort of,” Brady said. “The truth is, I’ve known about this for a long time. Over a decade, in fact. I… You know you’re not going to like what I’m about to say.”

I kept silent. Brady looked so hurt and, honestly, I was still in a great deal of physical pain that I didn’t want to make this any harder for either of us than it was.

“I’ve known about the spiritual realm for over a decade. Everything that you described after Devil’s Eye, I knew about. I didn’t think the drug would actually allow you to see into the underworld. I mean, how many kids dress up as devils for Halloween and don’t suddenly shift into the spiritual realm? But once it did… it’s frustrating, and I’m pissed off at myself. For the better part of a decade, I’ve tried to make sure you didn’t learn the things I knew and had to deal with the demons I’ve had to.”

“But Nuforsa—”

“Don’t tell me you’re going to listen to that bitch over me,” Brady snapped.

I was uneasy. What Nuforsa had said was not without truth.

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