Malicious Envy (Sins of Proteus Book 1) by Kitt Rose

Author:Kitt Rose [Rose, Kitt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gallica Publishing LLC
Published: 2020-05-06T18:30:00+00:00

18

Libby

I didn't know what to expect from witches. In Georgia, I had known a few Wiccans. And of course, I'd seen movies with a wide range of portrayals, read books. But whatever my mind had thrown together at the prospect of meeting witches, this wasn't it.

Not even remotely.

Ash's directions led us to a large home on a perfectly normal street. The lot the pretty peach house was on was large. The yard was beautifully landscaped with a substantial garden visible from the street. We climbed the steps to the whitewashed porch and knocked on a gleaming wooden door. Through the small leaded glass window at the top, I watched a wavering figure of a woman walk down a long hallway.

Noise behind me made me turn, and I brought a hand up to shield my eyes from the bright morning sun. A man was jogging down the street, his headphones leaking music into the quiet street.

It was just so normal. The street, the jogger, and the woman who opened the door.

She was maybe a few years younger than me. I would be shocked if she was older than twenty-one or twenty-two. In a pair of worn jeans, bare feet, and a Grateful Dead tie-dyed tank top, she looked like a college student. Her dirty blonde hair was cut into a sleek bob, and when she smiled, her denim-blue eyes crinkled while dimples popped in her cheeks.

“May I help you?” she asked in a slightly husky voice.

Ash gestured to me. “This is Libby, and I'm Asher Stefan. We are here to see Ms. Selene.”

The woman nodded, stepped back and gestured us into the house.

Ash walked inside, grabbing my hand and pulling me with him. At the threshold of the door, the moment before I stepped through, something burned across my skin. It was as if I'd touched an electric fence, a sharp, shock of pain.

Except this was different. The sensation didn't go away so much as sink into me. It passed through each layer of my body, seeming to dive through skin to muscle to bone, before shrink-wrapping the very cells that made up my body. Everything buzzed and burned. Just when I thought I couldn't take the pain a moment longer, it vanished, leaving my entire body tingling.

I turned back to stare at the empty air that I had just passed through, frozen.

Ash tugged at my hand. “Lib?”

“Wha-what was that?” I asked, glancing back at Ash, all the fine hairs on my body standing on end.

The woman who had opened the door raised one thick eyebrow. “Interesting. You felt the ward.”

“Ward?” I looked back to the door. I squinted, running my eyes from corner to corner, top to bottom, but there was nothing there.

The woman tutted, reaching past me to close the door. I had to jump out of the way or it would have hit me.

Ash growled softly.

“Oh hush, child of Proteus. We can't be standing in the doorway having these kinds of conversations and you know it.”

I didn't have to look to see Ash was angry.

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