Shadows at Midnight by Bonilla Amanda

Author:Bonilla, Amanda [Bonilla, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Urban, goblins, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Paranormal, Dark Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Witches, Paranormal & Urban, Ghosts
ISBN: 9781943772070
Publisher: NYLA
Published: 2015-09-24T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

I headed to Xander’s the next morning with a plan set firmly in my mind. Ty hadn’t offered outright to help Xander regain his sanity but he’d given me a tool—and the words to use it. It probably wasn’t a good idea to go around muttering Jinn incantations that I had no idea what they meant. For all I knew, I was opening a portal into a parallel dimension or some shit. Then again, I’d never been one to consider the consequences of my actions before I acted. Xander needed my help. And I was going to do whatever it took to help him.

“How is he?”

“Ordering anyone who’ll listen to go fetch you,” Asher said instead of giving me a straight answer. “Since last night. He hasn’t slept.”

“Demanding with a one track mind. Definitely a good sign.”

Ash shrugged. “Raif doesn’t seem to think so. They’ve kept the king sequestered. He’s had moments of lucidity but they’re not as frequent as Raif would like. Seconds in comparison to the hours he’s spent disoriented and rambling. The entire house has been cleared of any non-essential personnel and no one but me, Anya, Myles, Liam, and Raif are allowed past the first story.”

Raif was definitely playing it close to the hip. Not a bad idea. “I talked to Tyler last night. He said there was nothing he could do to outright mend Xander’s mind, but I think he’s given me a way to do it without directly using his magic.”

Ash’s eyes lit with curiosity. “Wanna fill me in?”

“Nope.”

He didn’t do anything to hide his disappointment and pouted like a like a kid who’d found his Happy Meal without a toy. “You’re no fun, you know that?”

“I do and I’m totally okay with it.”

“Sadistic,” Ash said with a sad shake of his head. “Well, inadvertently or not, if whatever you manage to do helps Xander, Ty will definitely be off the hook for any affronts to the crown.”

I snorted. “Perceived affronts.”

As we started up the stairs the sound of angry shouts drifted down from Xander’s suite of rooms. The door opened wide and his voice boomed before the door slammed closed again, muffling the sound. Anya came waddling down the stairs in a gentle stir of flowing fabric. Her eyes lit on me and her full lips thinned with annoyance. “Good, you’re here,” she said as though she really wished I was buried deep in a hole somewhere. “He continues to believe that we’re all illusions sent to trick him into believing that you’re actually alive. Maybe if he sees you with his own eyes, his mind will clear and he’ll move on to obsessions that are worthy of his attention.” Without missing a beat, she passed me on the staircase and continued her descent.

“So, yeah. That about covers it,” Asher said with a laugh. “The last thing he remembers is Padma killing you. Or…you killing Padma who looked like you.”

“Got it.” Reconciling with reality wasn’t easy after a major mind fuck. I owed it to Xander to do whatever I could to help get him back to one hundred percent.

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