Storm Witch (Scarlet Jones Book 1) by D.N. Hoxa

Author:D.N. Hoxa [Hoxa, D.N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: D.N. Hoxa
Published: 2018-06-20T16:00:00+00:00

Twelve

I woke up before six in the morning. By seven, my stomach was growling like mad, demanding to be fed. By eight, I gave up on waiting for the girls to wake up and got out of the bed. Hoping to find my clothes washed and dried in the bathroom didn’t make them magically appear there, but I did check. And when I went downstairs, I was surprised to see that Luca was already up. I hadn’t heard anyone, or I’d have left that room long ago.

“Good morning,” said Luca, and Mathias, who was resting against the counter, reading a newspaper, mumbled something similar.

“Morning. Slept well?” I asked, and eyed the black coffee in front of Luca. Where could I get some of that?

“Decent,” Luca said and stood up. “Sit. I’ll get you one.”

Who knew he was such a gentleman? It’d been a while since somebody had brought me coffee—my last boyfriend of all of three weeks—and I couldn’t say it wasn’t nice. Mathias didn’t move at all as Luca walked around him to get the mug and the coffee from the machine on the counter. He seemed to be completely enthralled in whatever article he was reading.

“Have you thought about it?” Luca said when he brought me a yellow mug full of fresh coffee. My mouth watered.

“Thanks,” I said, and raised the mug to him before taking a sip. Heavenly. “I have. You?” I’d thought about it since I woke up. About the werewolves and about the ECU. About the demons.

“I still think we should do it,” Luca said. This morning, he sounded much more determined, or maybe it was just because he’d rested.

“I still think we shouldn’t.” Raining on their parade wasn’t my intention, but the feeling hadn’t gone away, and the whole thing stank of mystery. Where I came from, keeping secrets never meant anything good, and that werewolf Oscar had refused to tell us how he knew what we were, and how he found us. It was too risky. We were being hunted by the ECU and by the demons. Now was not the time to be reckless.

“Look, you’re the only one here who knows what you’re doing in a fight,” said Luca, shaking his head. “I do trust your judgment, and believe me, I would have liked nothing more than to do this ourselves, but we can’t. We need help. We need information…we don’t even know how many others like us are in there.”

“Which is what bothers me. They claim to know everything, but they’re counting on us to decide to break in?” I took another sip of the coffee. “He’s a fighter, Luca. He’s a werewolf. His nose alone would have told him that we’re in no condition to help, not against the ECU. In fact, with people like him, we’d only drag them down—not to be offensive or anything. We’re nowhere near stronger than werewolves.” It was the ugly truth, one we needed to accept before anything else. The demons rendered us unconscious almost on sight.

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