Maxwell, Lisa - The Devil's Thief by Maxwell Lisa

Author:Maxwell, Lisa [Maxwell, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

DISCARDED

1902—New York

For Logan Sullivan, traveling through time wasn’t the romantic adventure the movies made it out to be. For one thing, he didn’t get to sail along in a floating car or a magical police box. It wasn’t an easy jump. It hurt. And another thing—it made his head spin, his guts feel like they were about to fall out, and his very self feel like it was about to shatter. There was always a moment just as Esta dragged Logan from one time to another when he swore that there was a chance they wouldn’t make it at all, a point where it felt like he didn’t even exist. In short, time travel was a difficult, dangerous, and frustrating pain in the ass.

But then again, so was Esta.

She was the one who had always been able to see right through him, and that was damn inconvenient for Logan Sullivan, considering he’d discovered a long time ago that it was easier to move through the world if you let your pretty face do the talking.

Still, pain in the ass or not, he’d felt bad about the gun he’d pressed to her side and even worse about the bullets Professor Lachlan had loaded into it. It wasn’t that he didn’t believe the Professor when he’d told Logan that Esta had turned on them and couldn’t be trusted. It was that Logan might have been a lot of things, but he’d never thought of himself as a murderer. He didn’t like the idea of having to put a bullet in her back. Even if she had done the same to Dakari.

So he’d been glad when she hadn’t fought him as they’d walked to the departure point. He’d been relieved when he’d had to nudge her only once to get her moving, but he should have known it couldn’t be that easy. Nothing with her ever was. One minute he felt like the whole world was being ripped apart, like his very soul was collapsing in on itself, and then he felt the solidness of the pavement beneath him again.

Before he could even pull himself upright, he’d felt a pain tear through his shoulder joint, and his hand had gone numb as Esta slid away from him. He’d stumbled, trying to get to his feet, but his vision was only just clear enough to see Esta scoop up the bag he’d been carrying and disappear.

Logan was trying to get his eyes to focus, when the reality of his situation hit him. The dampness of the cobbled street, the smell of coal smoke and soot in the air. The strange slant of light coming down through the overcast day, and the bustle of voices around him in languages he didn’t understand. Professor Lachlan had tried to teach him, but he never had the head for words the way Esta had.

Esta. Who was always good at everything. Esta, who had definitely abandoned him.

In the past.

There was a scent in the air with the sootiness—a ripeness that indicated something alive.

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