Two Deals: a Djinn Paranormal Romance (Blackwell Djinn) by Nikki Kardnov

Author:Nikki Kardnov [Kardnov, Nikki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tortoise House Press
Published: 2019-07-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

WILLA

Willa paced the living room of the stone cottage in Scotland. She hadn’t left the room since she’d arrived. The only thing she’d done was dress. Was Poe okay? Had Raina killed him?

If Raina killed him, Willa would...

Tears burned in her eyes. Her stomach knotted.

Please be okay.

Please be okay.

The air snapped behind her.

Willa swiveled around.

Poe stood in the living room lit by the stark daylight pouring in from the giant bay windows.

“Oh thank God!” She practically lunged at him and wrapped her arms around him. He stiffened at first, but then he nearly collapsed against her. “I’m so sorry. I wanted to tell you,” she said. “I should have told you.”

“It’s all right, love.”

“No, it’s not.” She pulled back. Tears rolled down her cheeks. “Are you okay?”

His hair was disheveled and hung over his forehead. Blood had turned his t-shirt black from the shoulder down to the hip. Willa couldn’t tell if he was still hurt.

“Healed,” he said.

“And your family?”

“Everyone is all right. Raina is gone.”

Willa let out a breath and collapsed onto the sofa. As the relief ran through her, she was surprised to realize she had been more worried about Poe than she had been about Raina.

And what exactly does that mean?

She had no idea.

“You have to tell me everything, love.” Poe sat beside her. “You have one wish remaining. Let’s make it a good one. But I need all the facts to help you choose the right course.”

Willa nodded and swiped the tears from her face. “Okay.”

“Come to the kitchen,” he said. “I’ll make us tea while you fill me in.”

Willa had been so distraught when she arrived at the cottage that she hadn’t explored the house.

A short hallway ran from the living room to the kitchen. Several windows in the cozy space let in a good amount of daylight. There was a worn worktable in the center of the room and white cabinets in an L-shape along the backside. The floor, worn stone, was cold beneath Willa’s feet as she followed Poe to the worktable.

“Have a seat,” he said.

She pulled out one of the wood stools and slid onto it.

“Where to start,” she mused as Poe filled a tea kettle at the sink.

“Start from the beginning. The demon said it was familiar with you and Raina. Has it possessed her before?”

Willa nodded. “Six years ago. Raina was just barely seventeen years old. I was still using my tarot cards at that point. I did a reading one morning because Raina had been acting strange.”

Willa looked down. “She told me she was hearing voices. I thought she was having some kind of mental breakdown. Our home life had never been a great one. We were with a foster home by that point. We’d been placed with a really nice older woman, Maggie. She made the best chocolate chip cookies and she always seemed interested in how we were doing and how our day was. We had never had anything like that.

“It felt too good to be true.

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