Power of Three_Urban Fantasy by Meredith Medina

Author:Meredith Medina [Medina, Meredith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: FireHive Media
Published: 2018-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

10

Lacey

The room wasn’t quite dark when I woke up, but it was still hot. Maia was curled up on the single bed across from me, her hair was in her face, and she was still wearing her boots.

I wasn’t quite sure what I was feeling, but the moment I stepped off the bus and onto the sidewalk, I knew that I loved this city. It smelled exciting, and unlike anything I’d ever experienced before… which is saying a lot.

I couldn’t wait to see what it looked like at night.

I poked Maia with my toe.

“Maia.” I paused, waiting for her to move, but she didn’t. I poked her again, harder this time. “Maia.” Still nothing.

Another shove, this time with the ball of my bare foot. “Miiiiii-yaaaaa.”

The witch groaned and smashed her face into the bright pillowcase. “Whaaaat,” she replied with a muffled moan. “You don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve been able to sleep in a real bed.”

I prodded her with my foot again, laughing as she slapped ineffectually at my toes. “Come on. I’m starving and the city smells amazing right now.”

“It’s really creepy how well your nose works, you know that, right?” Maia grumped, flopping onto her side.

“I know,” I said mournfully. “You don’t even want to know what New York smells like most of the time. The worst part? Everything you smell, you kind of have to taste too, right?” Maia opened her eyes slowly and made a disgusted face. “Yeah, I’ve tasted a lot of stuff I never want to think about ever again.”

“You’re gross,” she said, pushing herself up to a sitting position. “I feel like a bag of shit that has only slept for three hours in the last two days.”

I bounced out of my bed and flipped the coverlet up over the pillow. “Drama Llama, get up! I’m hungry, you’re probably hungry…”

“We don’t eat the same things, remember?” Maia snapped.

“I know! You can have a burger and I’ll see if I can find something tall, dark and lonely. Easy pie.” I was already breaking Bishop’s rules by leaving New York, I may as well get used to flying by the seat of my pants. I still wasn’t sure if I was going to go back at all. Maybe I’d just stay here and turn into one of those perfumed vampires living in an old manor house covered in wisteria. I could pull that off.

“Do you know where you want to start looking?” Maia asked as she stretched. She looked like she had something on her mind, but I wasn’t sure what it was.

“No,” I answered carefully. “But the Quarter seems like as good a place as any to start.” A thought streaked through my mind, and I scolded myself for not thinking of it sooner. “Maybe we’ll find a club like Spiral! Wouldn’t that be the greatest?”

“Greatest? Yeah, sure,” Maia replied. Not looking as though she agreed with me at all.

“Well, Miss Grumpy Guts, where would you suggest we start looking?” I asked, putting my hands on my hips.

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