Queen of Corvids (Raven Crawford Book 3) by J. C. McKenzie

Author:J. C. McKenzie [McKenzie, J. C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-31T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

“All my life I thought air was free…until I bought a bag of chips.”

~ Unknown, also Raven Crawford

The door swung open and Raven stood face to face with her brother’s best friend. Marcus’s eyes widened and he stiffened in the doorway.

“Raven!” He glanced at Rourke. “You keep odder company by the day.”

“You’re being rude.” Although she mentally noted the oddity of her group, someone else voicing it out loud was offensive.

After they made their way across the last-standing bridge to the Lower Mainland from the North Shore, they dropped Cole off at a random corner of the street—for a purpose unspecified—so her only odd company this time was Rourke. Knowing he’d pledged his life to her, she automatically felt defensive and protective of him.

Of a weapon-warping dark fae assassin turned guardian.

Rourke’s amused smile taunted her.

Oh, shut up.

Marcus turned back to Raven. “An unexpected house call. Should I feel special? Are you here to ask me to join your special group of misfits?”

“I tried calling. Three times. You didn’t answer and when we swung by the shop, they said you took a sick day. I was actually worried, you jerk.” She tilted her head and studied her long-time friend, his dark hair was messier than usual, and his clothes more dishevelled, but he didn’t look sick. From his apartment, a faint smell wafted into the hallway. It reminded her of…

“Is that alfalfa?” She wrinkled her nose. “Are you brewing potions?”

“Yes. Spell gone wrong. Don’t ask.” Marcus slipped into the hallway of his apartment building, closing the door to his place behind him. “This isn’t a good time, Wenny.”

Rourke growled.

She waved him off. “I’m sorry to interrupt whatever potion play time you’re having in there, but I need your help.”

Marcus straightened and pulled his shoulders back. “I have a few fae-deterrent spells.”

Rourke snarled, like that would somehow help change Marcus’s opinion of his kind. Their kind.

“No. No, it’s not that.”

Marcus’s frown deepened as she explained her current predicament.

“Do you have anything?” she asked after finishing a summary of events. “Something to boost my power or shield me from the magical backlash long enough for me to safely reabsorb my magic?”

Marcus’s forehead wrinkled and his eyebrows bunched together. He tapped his chin. “Maybe…”

Something crashed in his apartment and he flinched.

“Do you…have someone over?” Raven asked. Normally, he wouldn’t have answered the door, but that would explain the unanswered calls. Ever since Bear and Raven mercilessly teased Marcus about dating Mandy Penner, for two completely different reasons, he’d been private about his love life.

“Give me thirty minutes. Where should I meet you?”

“My parents’ place,” Raven said. She tried to relax her face and prevent a full-face frown. She’d grown up with Marcus. She used to have a crush on him. There was a time she would’ve walked around his place and helped herself to food and the remote control as if it were her own place. Sure, they didn’t see each other as often anymore, they weren’t as close, and he certainly didn’t owe her anything, but something was off with him.

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