Shadowman: Shadow Series 3 by Erin Kellison

Author:Erin Kellison [Kellison, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fire Flower Publishing, LLC

Layla was about to take a seat in the jeep when Kev jerked her back.

“Black widow,” he said and swatted a big, black, and venomous spider. Once, twice, three times before it curled up its extra-long legs and died.

Her time to die? Forget that.

But Layla’s heart was thumping. The forest bramble gave way to bumpy grass, which climbed to a single-lane access road. Kev took the road at a good clip, and when he broke into the valley, she spotted the castle of Segue.

The sunlight was behind her now, the sky pale blue, yet the building was only partially illuminated. The Escher effect again. Inky darkness crawled up the west wing so that not even the windows reflected the morning. The other part of the building looked solid, lightening with the rising sun.

The sight tugged at her mind, as it had that day when she’d come to snap a photo of Talia Thorne.

Something was off about the building. Something wrong, dangerous. It made her feel as if she were small and exposed while a massive, violent storm hung in the distance, but on a horizon line that Layla did not understand.

This was exactly what she’d been talking about with Talia.

Squeezing her eyes shut, she concentrated on relaxing. On breathing.

All her life she’d fought these kinds of visions. She’d pushed them into the back of her mind and had gotten along just fine. Well, mostly fine. She paid her rent. Got an education. And she had a story to report. If she focused on that, the fever in her heart would quiet.

She opened her eyes and the shadow on the building pulsed. Grasped.

Which made Layla gulp hard. Somewhere inside that building, Talia was playing with her children.

“Don’t worry, Ms. Mathews,” Kev said. “We’re almost there.”

She should tell them, just in case. These people dealt with scary crap every day—angels and fae and Shadow and who knew what else. They might even already know the darkness was there and weren’t worried about it. After all, Khan used Shadow for his magic, and what was that thing on Segue but a great big shadow?

Or maybe...She might not be able to paint like Kathleen, but she had the same ability to see. And once in a while she could capture what she saw on film.

Dr. Patel, a couple of male nurses, and a stretcher were waiting for her at the rear of the building. A massive loading dock was open for their convenience, and Kev stopped there.

She shuffled out of the jeep on her own.

“I’m not getting on that thing,” Layla said, as she passed the stretcher.

She left Patel no choice but to lead her through the underfloors of Segue to wherever he was going to examine her calf, which stung fiercely, but was in no way life-threatening.

Though the ceilings were low, the corridors were modern, sleek, and white, a startling counterpoint to the restoration on the main floors. Offices and lab space were off to each side. They went through sliding doors to a small clinic.

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