Shadow Hunted: an Urban Fantasy Novel (Shadows of Salem Book 3) by Jasmine Walt & Rebecca Hamilton

Author:Jasmine Walt & Rebecca Hamilton [Walt, Jasmine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Shadows of Salem
Published: 2017-03-29T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

As it turned out, the trip back to Earth was much shorter than I’d anticipated. My father kept a portal to the human realm on his lands, which Oscar used regularly to nip in and out of the castle. Darun led us straight to a group of caves. Within only a few moments of walking through a narrow stone tunnel, we were stepping out into cold and snowy Chicago.

“Wow,” I said, pulling my hood up against the flurries of snow whipping through the air. We were standing on a suburban street that was only a few blocks away from Oscar’s house, and there were piles of snow drifts stacked along the edges of the roads. “I’ve been gone a long time. What’s the date?”

“January 14th, 2017,” Maddock said.

He snagged me around the waist before the enormity of that could sink in and bunched his hand into the scruff of Darun’s neck. I opened my mouth to tell him to stop, but the magic was already humming in the air, and the world was spinning, faster and faster and faster…

“Jesus!” I snapped as everything came to an abrupt stop. We were inside Maddock’s house, standing directly next to the small, flowing river in his living room. Thankfully, I only experienced a mild queasiness this time—had my increased exposure to magic made it easier to deal with teleporting?

“Couldn’t you have given me some warning? It would have been nice to grab a slice of deep dish at least.” I’d been struck by an unexpected bout of homesickness when we’d landed in Chicago—spending an hour or so there would have been nice.

Before Maddock could answer, Darun let out a high-pitched whine. We turned to see him curled into a ball on the floor, shaking, his eyes squeezed tightly shut.

“Blast it,” Maddock swore. “I didn’t think it would take effect so soon.” Kneeling, he pressed his hands against Darun’s side and barked out a spell. A strange blue glow pulsed from his palms, spreading all over the wolf, and he quieted almost immediately, his body stilling.

Relief washed over me, and I opened my mouth to ask what the hell just happened when a sudden, intense itching broke out across the back of my neck. Agitated, I reached up to scratch it, but scraping my nails over the area only made it worse—it was like having a sunburn and a rash all at once.

“Oww!” I squirmed as the rash began spreading down my back. “What the fuck!”

“Hold still,” Maddock ordered as Darun began barking. He put his hands on my shoulders and chanted the same spell again. The blue light sank into my body, sending a burst of cool energy that instantly calmed whatever was breaking out across my body.

“There’s a blasted spell over this place,” Darun growled in my head. “One that specifically targets Unseelie. Think your friend could have mentioned that?”

“Oh.” A lightbulb switched on in my head, and I gave Darun an apologetic look. “Sorry, I guess we both forgot about it.

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