Touch of Darkness by C T Adams & Cathy Clamp

Author:C T Adams & Cathy Clamp [Adams, C T & Clamp, Cathy]
Format: epub
Tags: Romance - Paranormal, Romance - Vampire, Romance - Fantasy
Published: 2010-05-12T22:00:00+00:00

“Good night.”

The room seemed oddly empty after they left, the silence so thick that I could hear Bryan’s snores from the other room, and the ticking of the clock hanging above the sink. I hoped Mary wouldn’t mind, but I needed coffee. I rummaged in the cabinets until I found what I needed and set a pot to brew. That done, I pulled the books from their bag and moved them over to the kitchen table.

I knew for a fact that there had been a few times these past few days that the queens had successfully blocked my gift, effectively locking me inside my own mind. I needed to find out how they’d done it and, more importantly, how to counteract the effect. I was pretty sure the answer was inside one of these books. Now was as good a time as any to start looking for it.

Three hours and two mugs of coffee later the household was stirring. I could hear a shower running upstairs, which probably meant Tom was getting ready. Bryan was still out of it, but Dusty and the baby were making noises, and I could hear Mary talking to Joe in the other room about running to the store to get breakfast food for the resident horde. She was joking, but there was an edge to it. I couldn’t blame her. Company had descended, disrupting their quiet life with no warning, and no end in sight.

“Find anything?” Dusty appeared in the kitchen doorway with Robby on her shoulder. She was jiggling him a little the way mothers do sometimes to keep the baby from crying.

“Actually I did.”

She walked over to the table to look at the paragraph I was pointing to. It was in the section on shielding, and it talked about how a shield could be used offensively to trap an opponent inside their own mind. It would cut off the abilities in such a way that the person might not even notice for days, or weeks, by which time it could be made strong enough that it would be nearly impossible to break from the inside. It could only be lifted by the caster, or broken from outside.

“Oooh, nasty.” She shifted the baby to a more comfortable position. “You think that’s what they’ve done to you?”

“I don’t know. Maybe.” I ran my hand through my tangled hair in frustration. “I’ve been trying to think if I’ve used my talent lately, and I don’t know. I’ve done a couple of things, but they could just be chalked up to observation. Maybe I heard the vampire moving in the trees rather than sensed him. Maybe yesterday’s nightmare was just a dream. Or maybe the fact that I was touching Tom at the time counteracted what they’ve been doing. I don’t know!”

“Want me to look? It says here I should be able to sense it.”

“Unless they did it to you too.”

“No harm in trying.”

“Yeah, if you only look. The book also says that if you try to break it there’s a good chance the power could backlash onto you.

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