The Reaper Rescues the Genie by Painter Kristen

Author:Painter, Kristen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sugar Skull Books
Published: 2018-04-17T00:00:00+00:00

Imari appreciated Hattie’s attempt to occupy her, and working on the shadow boxes had been fun, but she couldn’t stop thinking about the wish merchant. If he had the stopper, he could get his genie to track her. It wouldn’t be easy. Jinn magic was slow and unreliable when used against other jinn, but with enough patience and determination, it would work.

He would find her. And he would enslave her too.

Unless… She shook her head.

“What is it, dear?” Hattie asked.

“Nothing.” She picked up a glue stick. “Just thinking.”

Hattie’s smile was warm and understanding. “It’ll be okay.”

“I hope so.”

A door slammed deeper in the house. They both jumped off their stools and turned to look.

“Lucien?” Hattie called out.

He appeared seconds later at the door to the craft room, his eyes on Imari.

She almost didn’t want to ask, but she had to know. “The stopper?”

“Gone.”

She closed her eyes and sat down, the sinking feeling in her belly nearly undoing her. “He’ll find me. It’s just a matter of time now.”

“There has to be another way,” Lucien said. “Give me the bottle. I know you don’t want anyone else to have possession of it, but you know I won’t use it against you.”

“It won’t work.” She looked up at him. Her world was crumbling. This would be how it ended. She couldn’t even go back into the bottle and return home. Not without the stopper. “The bottle is incomplete. I’m such a fool. I never should have given Willa that piece.”

Hattie clucked her tongue. “Now, now. You had no way of knowing what was going to happen.”

“Doesn’t matter. I’m still a fool. I just…I felt so safe here. I got complacent.”

Lucien came into the room and took her by the shoulders. “Is there any other way you can think of that would make you safe from him?”

She stared at him, the grim reaper, the best man she’d ever known, and wanted to laugh. The only way he could save her would destroy the life she’d known up to this point. It would ruin whatever this was that had begun between them. It would turn her family against her. Make her an outcast among her own kind.

She couldn’t bring herself to say the words.

“Tell me,” Lucien said softly. “Whatever it is, we’ll do it. I’ll do it. I will not let that man touch you.”

She shook her head and tried not to weep. “There is one way.”

His eyes brightened, and he gave her shoulders a little squeeze of encouragement. “What is it?”

She swallowed and tried to form the words. “You have to marry me.”

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