Treasures, Demons, and Other Black Magic by Meghan Ciana Doidge

Author:Meghan Ciana Doidge [Doidge, Meghan Ciana]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal & Urban, Sword & Sorcery, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Publisher: Smashwords
Published: 2014-06-11T03:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

I stepped out onto the roof of the parking lot. It was completely open to the night air, and the fog was thicker around my knees than my head. Which was good, because I was going to need my eyes.

Sienna was waiting for me. She and Sayers were standing in a roped pentagram rigged at the top of the parking lot’s central open well.

It hurt to look at Sienna with her bulging black veins and inky eyes. She wore a fabric bag slung across a tattered cloak. She was going for bag-lady chic now. I was also unhappy to note that she was wearing what looked like three of my trinkets. I hoped she’d had a stash, because I really didn’t like thinking that she’d gone back to Vancouver for them. Sayers was still in the suit, which made it more obvious he’d come directly here from the hotel. I guess the sorcerer had wanted a look at me before he tried to kill me. I couldn’t figure out if that was polite or insanely rude.

Sayers, as best as I could see, was putting the final touches on the pentagram spell, because unlike the three below us, it wasn’t sealed. Within the thinned fog, I could taste the sorcerer’s sugared Earl Grey essence and Sienna’s old blood-drenched earth magic.

I tamped down on this nausea-inducing combination, and — just for a moment — wished I hadn’t given my knife to Drake. I had a clear shot at Sienna, but I couldn’t throw the katana slung across my back the way I could throw my jade knife.

“Hello, sister,” Sienna said. She was holding the sacrificial knife she’d used to kill Jeremy. The anger that had been on a low simmer in my belly now ramped up, until I felt like my heart might be on fire.

I didn’t have any witty words. I didn’t want to trade quips with my evil best friend. I just wanted this to be over, over, over.

Kett stepped into my peripheral vision. Sienna’s black-lipped smile widened at the sight of the vampire. This stretched the black veins snaking across her face in such a way that my belly rolled with a different kind of queasiness, but I didn’t look away.

“Back for more, vampire?” Sienna purred. Then she snapped her teeth at him. Yeah, that was my sister now, cheesy and evil. In a strange reversal of roles, she had drunk Kett’s blood in the basement of my bakery six months ago …

Wait.

Blood.

Sienna’s blood spreading across the altar in the vision Chi Wen shared with me …

“Don’t drink her blood,” I hissed to Kett.

He furrowed his brow.

I could clearly remember Kett slumped off to the side of the cave in Chi Wen’s vision, as if it was my own memory. But what could possibly kill — or at least incapacitate — the vampire in that version of the future?

“I saw … I was shown something,” I said, sorting quickly through my thoughts. Sienna had cocked her head to one side as if trying to hear our conversation.

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