Winter Blood: an Urban Fantasy Novel (Coldharbour Chronicles Book 4) by Richard Amos

Author:Richard Amos [Amos, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Rain fell as I picked myself up off the tarmac.

I watched the space Dean has just occupied, waiting for this nightmare to break. He was still there—I just wasn’t seeing him. Adreana had left something inside me, causing me severe torment. I mean, why would Dean say that? He wouldn’t.

Oh, my God! What if … what if … What if DI Williams had been Lilisian all along and they were really lovers, him getting close to me to somehow break me? I took a moment to catch my breath. No, Dean had been helping me come back to together. That was a stupid theory to have. So he’d had a history with the previous owner of that body. That was then, this was now. His kisses were for me. Even if he wanted to nibble both sides of the cookie, the last person he’d go with was Lilisian no matter what shell she wore. She’d taken DI Williams’s body—Rachel—and pushed away her soul. There was no secret plan, only … only that Lilisian had done something to him.

My head was spinning. The idea that this was some remnant of Adreana’s mind-fuckery was slipping away fast. Panicked ‘what ifs’ were not bloody helping.

This was all too real. The icy rain kissing my skin, the bitter bite of the day, the sting in my heart as he bowed to that bitch. Dean was gone, and I couldn’t feel anything from the SOS bonds. At all.

Shit.

“It has to be magic,” I said weakly, finally halting the screaming in my mind. That was all it could be.

Greg and Nay were at my side, my chosen brother and sister flanking me.

“Course it is, mate,” Greg offered. “Why else would he do that?”

They didn’t know yet, about the whole Karla thing. Shit. How was I supposed to tell them? I couldn’t keep it a secret. It was too deadly to hide away, yet too chaotic to set free. Karla, though physically blind, was a powerful witch. She’d given Lilisian the smackdown on the beach, for starters.

I couldn’t lie to my family.

“I have … I have something to tell you both.”

I explained everything that Adreana had told me.

“But it can’t be true,” I finished.

Both Greg and Nay were deathly silent. They looked at one another, the look lasting way longer than I could stand.

“Someone say something.”

Eventually Nay did. “We’ve never known how this happened to Coldharbour. Karla always said she tried to find out, but never could.” Her shoulders sagged. “What if this …” She trailed off, shaking her head.

Greg was as solid and still as Dean had been and it scared the shit out of me. “You better start speaking, mate, or I’m gonna freak out.”

That wasn’t very fair of me, but I was so petrified that he was gonna run off and make it a threesome with Lilisian I couldn’t keep my mouth shut.

His amber eyes moved to me. “Give me a moment, Jakey.” That deep voice of his was now a mere rasp.

I drew some deep breaths.

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