Unlawful Possession by C.L. Roman & C.L. Roman

Author:C.L. Roman & C.L. Roman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: vampire, secret curse, cursed, geas, Demon, witch, Paranormal private eye, demon possession, possessed
Publisher: Brass Rag Press
Published: 2023-08-26T00:00:00+00:00

Tricked

Mara

“Where are they?” Mara was two miles down the highway, with four near-miss almost-accidents in her wake, when she concluded that Char had taken the first exit after all. She hadn’t seen the Charger turn off, but that didn’t mean much.

Inside her head, Georgia kept to the shadows, watching through her own eyes like a stranger standing at the window. She listened intently to Mara’s loud thoughts but kept her silence.

Mara reached the next exit and made the long, wide U-turn under the overpass that would take her back the other direction.

A few minutes later, she glided down the offramp, her eyes scanning every turn, every parking lot, for the midnight blue Dodge. “I’m probably going to have to scry for them. She’s smarter and more skilled than I thought if she can hide an entire automobile from me without getting smacked by other drivers.”

Georgia caught sight of the Charger first, as it pulled up to the light on their right, waiting to turn onto the same road Mara was on. Georgia shrank further into the shadows. She didn’t want to call attention to the Knox woman’s vehicle. Didn’t want to be responsible for any more deaths.

It was no use. An instant later, the demon saw what Georgia had already noted. With a squeal of triumph, Mara pulled up to the stoplight, barely waiting for it to change before roaring off after Char. Swerving around a family-filled station wagon, Mara raced down the county road after her quarry.

They quickly left the freeway behind. The collection of restaurants and gas stations that tend to congregate around a busy off ramp faded into obscurity behind them in a matter of minutes. Magnolias, oaks, palms and kudzu lined both sides of the two-lane highway. There was no way Char hadn’t noticed Mara’s scream-red vehicle. There weren’t enough cars this far out to hide behind.

Oddly enough, Char didn’t gun the engine. If Mara sped up, so did she, but otherwise, she made no effort to shake the demon off her tail.

“Doesn’t know who she’s dealing with,” Mara grumbled. “But she will.”

Seventy-eight minutes later, she swore in six languages, her face turning a mottled red as the Charger faded from view.

A flicker of blue light on the black roadway, and she was alone on the highway. Mara pounded on the steering wheel so hard the Georgia winced as her hands reddened and throbbed.

“Stop it,” she said quietly. “If you break my body, it will be of no use to you.”

“Shut up,” Mara screamed. She jerked the wheel so hard the car spun in a tight one-eighty, tipping up on two wheels before slamming back down onto the asphalt, leaving a dark trail of rubber on the road. “I will do whatever I want, and you will suffer the consequences. So you’d better shut up.”

After a mile or two in silence, a satisfied grin tilted Mara’s lips. “It doesn’t matter that we didn’t catch her here.”

“Oh?” Georgia said. “And why is that?”

“Because I know exactly where she’s going.

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