The Wolf Vs The Warlock: The Hidden City Supernatural Sleuth by Lauretta Hignett

Author:Lauretta Hignett [Hignett, Lauretta]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-11-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Fourteen

Levi was alive. Romeo would not kill me. Everything was going to be okay. And not in the “I’m going to die, so everything will eventually be totally fine” kind of way.

After a few moments, Levi began to stir. His eyelids fluttered. “Don’t try to move,” I said softly but urgently.

He exhaled, wincing in pain. “I don’t think I could even if I wanted to. He peeled one eye open. “Daphne? That’s you, right?”

“Sure is.” I leaned over so he could see my face through half-open lids, and he relaxed slightly. Giving him what I hoped was a reassuring smile, I asked him. “How do you feel?”

“Like I’ve been hit by a truck.”

“That’s to be expected. All of your bones have been shattered, but they’re healing. You have to give them time to harden, so don’t move, okay?”

He grimaced; his face was still deathly pale. “Where am I?”

“In the Hidden City. At the countess’s apartment.”

His eyes flew wide open. “The countess? As in, the sorceress, Ebadorathea Greenwood?” He jerked under the tablecloth I’d wrapped around his body, grunting in pain. “No— I have to⁠—”

“Relax, Levi.” I held a hand on his shoulder, trying to get him to be still. “Your bones are still soft. You have to stay still.”

He bucked under my hand. “She’s a cannibal!”

“She’s not,” I said patiently, trying to get him to lie back down. “She just makes jokes, that’s all. I know for a fact that the only white meat that passes her pursed lips is Korean bang bang chicken.”

“Hey!” The countess shouted. “Stop ruining my reputation!”

I ignored her and kept eye contact with Levi until he settled back down. “The demon got you, huh.”

He exhaled roughly. “Yeah.”

I patted his shoulder gently, feeling terrible. Only a few short hours ago, I’d been so mad at him I could have punched him in the face. But he’d come here and made himself vulnerable. For some unfathomable reason, the demon seemed to be targeting my enemies.

This was all my fault. I just didn’t know why. “Why did you come here, Levi?”

“Romeo…” He paused and swallowed. “After you left this morning, he ordered me to follow you.”

What did that mean? “I thought you guys were on lockdown?”

“He insisted.” His lips tightened for a second. I watched every little twitch and movement like a hawk, trying to decipher the meaning behind them. “I lost you straight away, though. I think he forgot that you ride like a psychopath.” Wincing, he shifted under the tablecloth. “I came here to the Hidden City. I was going to wait for you to come back. Then, I caught the whiff of brimstone.”

I frowned. “You smelled brimstone?”

“Yeah. It was only then I figured you might be telling the truth, that there was a demon on the loose.”

I shook my head, lost for words. There was no brimstone. I was sure of it. Even if the demon was gone and the stench had dissipated, I’d still be able to smell it. I’d be trying to block it out for days.

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