My Darkest Passion by Carolyn Jewel

Author:Carolyn Jewel
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Paranormal Romance, Witches, demons
Publisher: cjewel Books
Published: 2013-04-17T04:00:00+00:00

21

The darkness of the alley was no problem for Harsh. From where he stood with his back to an industrial-sized Dumpster, he could pick out the vermin by sight and sound both. He had an hour and a half before he was supposed to meet Addison for dinner. Plenty of time, if that asshole would just fucking show up.

A crawling sensation came to life in the center of his chest and raced outward until his fingers tingled and every hair on his body danced in warning. The psychic vibration was a survival mechanism that had served those like him for millennia; it meant something dangerous was headed his way.

Without conscious action on his part, his magic burned white-hot and at the ready. Another survival instinct, but an unusual consequence of that was that the part of himself that he kept walled off pushed at his internal wards. He was so used to that dark and inaccessible corner of himself that it took a reaction like this to remind him it was there and an ever-present threat.

Harsh smiled. Time to play.

Giuseppe Infante appeared in the mouth of the alley. His knock-off Italian suit and a self-satisfied grin made Harsh wish he’d killed the asshole when he had the chance. He’d not been idle while he was licking his wounds in Portland and wherever the hell else he’d been all this time. The image of Infante with blood running down his chin was burned into his memory, and it was sickeningly clear that he’d killed more of the demonkind.

“Hey,” Infante said. Even from here, his eyes glowed with the hallmark sign of a copa-induced high. “Fuck you.” Which was his special way of reminding Harsh that he and his kind believed a safe demon was a dead demon.

Since silence was bound to get a bigger reaction than anything Harsh could say in response, he stayed where and as he was. Quiet in a way Infante could never be. He got his reaction in short order. Infante shifted his weight between his feet and his smile turned into a sneer. Infante and asshole mages like him loved saying they lived by that motto about safe demons, but that was bullshit. Men like Infante were hypocrites.

The mage hadn’t come alone. Frankly, it would have been suicidal for him to do so. The man knew better than to think he had a chance in hell of harming Nikodemus’s right-hand man, not without a lot of help and luck. So, yes. If he’d shown up without the usual bodyguards, that would have been shocking.

Five against one looked like good odds even if Infante remembered just how badly he’d fared during their last two meetings. If the mage ended up dead this time, Harsh wasn’t going to cry.

While he waited for Infante to get good and pissed off, distant music thrummed in the air. Traffic noise was ever-present, as was the acrid scent of polluted air. Even this early in the evening, humans carried on with their

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