WILDCARD MAGIC: (GODS & MONSTERS BOOK 5) by N. P. MARTIN

Author:N. P. MARTIN [MARTIN, N. P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark World Press

By the time we reached a large stretch of woods, I knew we were only a mile or so away from the house.

“These are the woods that surround the house,” I said to Dalia, who seemed to have recovered from her encounter with the doppelgänger spirit.

“Good,” she said. “I feel like I’m going insane in this place.”

“I know the feeling.”

I felt tense as we entered the woods because I was now thinking of Amelia and how close we were getting to her. The possibility that she might be dead still lurked in the back of my mind, filling me with so much dread that I never even thought to keep it locked down, given where we were.

I suppose it was inevitable as we entered the woods that Amelia would suddenly appear from behind a tree.

“Well, look who it is,” Amelia said, or rather, what my manifestation of her said. “It’s Corvin Chance and his little sidekick, Dalia.” She laughed sarcastically, her voice dripping with venom. “Corvin… what kind of name is that anyway?”

“Just ignore her,” Dalia said. “She’s not real.”

Dalia knew better, though, and so did I. Amelia was real. Maybe she wasn’t the elf I knew, but she was some version of her. Either way, she was now flesh and blood in the Shadow like everything else.

“Yes, ignore me,” Amelia said as she came toward us out of the gloom, and I half-panicked when I saw the Desert Eagle in her hand. “Pretend I’m not here. That’s what you’ve been doing anyway, isn’t it?”

I couldn’t help myself. “No, I’m here to save you.”

She burst out laughing again. “Save me? You stupid fool. I’m dead already! Don’t you know that? You killed me, Corvin, when you were too weak to save me.”

I shook my head. “You’re not dead.”

“Aren’t I?” She tilted her head to the side as she came closer. “Are you sure about that, Corvin? Think back to when I was pulled into that back hole. Do you really think I survived that?”

“Corvin, don’t listen to her,” Dalia said, pulling at my arm now to get me to move away.

But I strangely could not move and felt as if I was under some spell. I could almost see the energy emanating from me as it was sucked into Amelia’s body.

“You get everybody killed, Corvin. Your mother, your father… even her, almost.” She pointed at Dalia. “He’ll finish the job soon enough, mark my words, little girl.”

“I’m no little girl,” Dalia growled as she floated in the air, thick tendrils of dark energy snaking around her. “And I’ve had enough of you, bitch.”

Just as Amelia brought the gun up to shoot her, Dalia unleashed her energy in Amelia’s direction and knocked the gun from her hand, causing Amelia to hiss at her like an animal. “You will die!” she shouted. “Both of you will die!”

“Shut it, bitch!” Dalia shouted back and promptly coiled her dark energy around Amelia’s throat, lifting her off the ground as she began to choke her to death.

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