Rival Demons by Sarra Cannon

Author:Sarra Cannon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: magic, young adult series, teen romance, young adult paranormal, cheerleaders, demons, witch, witches, young adult paranormal series, young adult romance
Publisher: Sarra Cannon
Published: 2012-04-08T03:43:26+00:00

I Have My Reasons

"Harper? Are you really going to make me search this whole place?"

My shoulders slumped and I let my head fall back, heavy with both regret and relief. Jackson. How had he known I was here?

He was probably going to kill me.

Reluctantly, I dropped my glamour and stepped into the middle aisle. Jackson stood about fifty feet away, a frown on his face.

"What were you thinking?" he asked. "I don't even know how you managed to get in here, but this is completely insane. How could you do something this risky?"

The anger in his voice made my stomach twist.

"I'm sorry," I said, unable to come up with something better to defend myself.

"You're sorry? You don't even know the first thing about being sorry," he said, his face red with rage. "Do you have any idea what would happen if someone else had found you in here?"

I hung my head. I didn't know what he wanted me to say. That I knew they would call me a traitor? A spy? Probably kick me out of this place.

Or worse.

"I felt your presence in the hallway earlier. Believe me, I rushed back here as soon as I could get away," he said. "The demons here don't know you like I know you. They wouldn't be so forgiving."

I crossed my arms over my chest. "And how do you think they are going to get to know me when all I do is sit in a room all by myself all day?"

Jackson shook his head in frustration and turned away. "That's not true," he said. "I've seen you in the marketplace plenty of times."

"Yeah, with all my new friends," I said, my tone biting. "Do you have any idea how lonely it is for me here? Or do you even care?"

"I didn't bring you here to make friends," he said. "I brought you here to save your life. Did you know that right now there's a hunter stalking the entrance where we came in? She's there, just waiting for you."

I felt like I'd had the breath knocked out of me. "One of the Order's hunters? How did she know where to find me?"

Jackson ran a hand through his hair. "I don't know," he said. "She had to have tracked you somehow, which doesn't make sense to me when you've barely even been casting any magic down here at all."

I froze, my body tense. "Magic?" I shook my head. "I thought you said this place was shielded from the surface. That they couldn't track me all the way down here."

"Normally that's true," he said. "But that's never really been tested with a witch's magic. I mean, we're usually thinking more about demon-only magic. It doesn't matter though, you haven't been casting that much, have you?"

I didn't know what to say. I hated to lie to him, but to tell him the truth would be admitting that I'd been watching the soldiers.

"Harper?" He took a step toward me. "Have you?"

I closed my eyes and drew in a deep breath.

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