Queen of The Hill (Knight Games) by Jack Genevieve

Author:Jack, Genevieve [Jack, Genevieve]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Carpe Luna Publishing
Published: 2014-06-30T05:00:00+00:00

To be specific, I didn’t plan to search for Anna herself—we’d tried that before—but Anna had a sidekick named Naill, a leprechaun with a bad attitude. Both were fugitives. Both were on the lam. And I was willing to bet my lunch money they were laying low in the same hidey-hole, probably with an imprisoned Julius.

When Rick said it was possible to trace magic, I remembered that I had some of Naill’s, and I was more than happy to use it against him.

“Ugh,” Poe said. “You haven’t washed that?”

I held up the bloody slip I’d worn when Bathory had tortured me and Julius had almost killed me. The fabric was stiff, and I was careful not to distress the dried blood. “I never planned to use it again, but I wanted to keep it as a memento of how far I’ve come as a witch,” I said.

“Seems unsanitary,” Poe said with disgust.

“You eat maggots.”

“The maggots are clean, it’s just the flesh they are feasting on that is questionable.”

I stuck out my tongue. “Anyway, it’s not the blood I’m after but the wine stain.” I pointed to a small splash of maroon at the neckline. “Naill poisoned my drink the night Bathory kidnapped me. I spilled some on the green sweater dress I was wearing that night. Bathory took the dress, but a little of the spill soaked through to the slip.”

“You’ll be lucky to get a whiff of magic off that thing after all this time. Not to mention it is undoubtedly polluted by all that blood,” Poe said sourly.

I shrugged. “Good thing I have a familiar capable of magnifying my power.”

He followed me up the stairs and through the door to the attic. “Even I have my limitations,” he said.

“You’re in an exceptionally chipper mood today,” I said sarcastically. “Did something happen to get your feathers in a bunch?” I crossed the attic to The Book of Light and opened it to a random page.

“Just nervous about becoming Tabetha’s biotch. If she takes your territory and with it the source of your power, what will happen to me? Will I become hers? Go back to Hecate’s garden whence I came?”

“I’m not going to let that happen. Tabetha will have to kill me first.”

“Somehow I don’t find that reassuring.”

Offended, I widened my eyes in his direction. “Poe! Are you saying you don’t believe in my mad magical skills?”

“I’m saying, Tabetha has been around a long time and doesn’t appear to have a conscience. That’s a dangerous combination.”

“There’s something I have to tell you Poe.” I sank into the chair behind the desk that held The Book of Light. It was a suspiciously cubicle-like arrangement for an ancient magical artifact, but it worked for me. “The goddess Hecate, my mother, came to me in a dream. She confirmed Tabetha is after my power and forbade me from giving it to her.”

Poe rolled his eyes toward the ceiling. “I don’t suppose she offered a suggestion for stopping her from taking it?”

Biting the corner of my lip, I admitted, “She suggested I let her have Logan.

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