Rival Magic by Ella Summers

Author:Ella Summers [Summers, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BluA
Published: 2016-07-10T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Magic Council Summit

SUMMIT DAY ARRIVED with beams of warm, golden sunshine set to the chorus of chirping birds. The road to the Magic Council’s meeting was paved with roses and smiles, but the mood inside Kai’s car as they drove to the hall was considerably more somber.

“The full Council will be meeting this morning,” Kai said.

That meant not just the core Magic Council would be present, but also the four smaller supernatural councils and their expert consultants.

“We won’t be allowed in the meeting chamber,” Tony said. “As we are neither Council members nor consultants.”

“I don’t know about that. If I wanted to consult someone about killing a monster, I’d ask Sera.” Callum winked at her.

She grinned back. “You guys aren’t so bad yourselves.”

Dal dipped his chin. “Keep going, Sera. I’ve almost forgotten that you’re the reason my hands still smell like cherry-vanilla candles.”

“Mine smell like lilacs,” Callum said, lifting his fingers to his nose to sniff them.

“I got chocolate,” said Tony. “As delicious as that is, I have to wonder why anyone would want to burn something that makes their entire apartment smell like chocolate. Why not just bake a cake instead?”

“I don’t think it smells like chocolate after Sera bakes,” Dal told him.

Callum snorted. “More like burning ash.”

Sera stuck her tongue out at them.

“We appreciate your other skills, Sera,” Tony said. “No one can kill a monster like you can.”

“The Council should bring her in as a consultant,” Callum agreed.

“They require an advanced degree from their consultants,” Tony told him.

“How stupid.”

“Yeah.”

“I don’t want to consult for the Magic Council anyway,” Sera declared. “Not if it means sitting through all those boring meetings for hours, trying not to fall asleep as I wait for my two seconds of fame.”

“The job would be ill-suited to your talents,” Kai agreed. “And I need you on the outside anyway. All of you.”

“Aww, boss, are you getting sentimental?” Callum asked him.

“Yes, because that would be exactly like me.”

Four snorts punctuated the soft hum of the car engine.

“Callum,” Kai said. “I need you to link up with the meeting hall’s surveillance team. Keep an eye out for people we know are Alden’s. Tony, are your teams in place?”

“Yes, they’re keeping an eye on Bender and Middleton. If Alden makes a move to take them, we will know about it.”

Kai nodded. “Tony, you’re with Sera. The two of you will patrol the corridors. Keep your eyes—and your magic—peeled for Alden’s crazy flavor of magic. Dal, you go with them.”

“I will heal Sera when she gets herself into trouble. Like always.”

“Maybe I won’t this time,” she told him.

“I find that scenario highly unlikely.”

“I’ve done jobs with you guys without getting injured.”

“Oh?”

“Yes,” she said. “Tons of them.”

“Name one.”

Umm… Sera chewed on her lower lip.

The man has a point, commented Amara.

Yeah, I know. I might be crazy, but at least I’m not living in denial about it.

“Alden can mask his magic on his followers now. I won’t be able to sense who they are,” Sera told Kai.

“We’ll make do.

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