ALL SOULS NEAR & NIGH: Soulbound II by Turner Hailey

Author:Turner, Hailey [Turner, Hailey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-18T18:00:00+00:00

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Jono knew something was wrong even before the old Greek coin still embedded in Marek’s window exploded with magic. Power rushed through the apartment’s walls with a whoosh that made Jono’s ears pop. Wade jumped off the sofa in surprise, the bag of chips falling away from his hands.

“What the fuck?” Wade said, eyes wide and voice gone high-pitched with fear.

“Marek!” Jono yelled as he raced for the door.

Footsteps pounding down the upstairs hall told him Marek had left his office at a run. “I still can’t see a damn thing!”

“Then stay here behind the ward. Goes double for you, Wade.”

Jono yanked the front door open, glad to see the magic wasn’t stopping him from leaving—but someone else was. Jono drew himself up short, nearly crashing into Hermes where the messenger god stood in the foyer.

“Huh. I forgot about that coin,” Hermes said.

“Get out of my fucking way,” Jono growled.

Hermes’ gaze flicked up and down Jono before he shrugged. “I got you a ride. Let’s go.”

The tugging in Jono’s soul seemed to get worse the second he crossed the threshold. He didn’t need to be a magic user to know what that meant.

Patrick was in trouble.

Jono shouldered past Hermes and headed for the stairs instead of the elevator, careening down them to the ground floor. Hermes met him at the bottom landing, having moved through the veil as only a god could.

The tugging in Jono’s soul got sharper. A creeping, vicious unease poured adrenaline through his veins.

“What happened?” Jono snarled as he slammed through the entrance of the building, the door rattling on its hinges.

An SUV was parked on the street out front. Quetzalcoatl stood near a familiar motorcycle with two passengers that was parked alongside it. Both engines were running hot.

“I warned him not to go to the club,” Quetzalcoatl said, sounding irritated.

“It’s not your case,” Jono reminded him savagely. He would’ve said more, except his mobile started ringing and he yanked it out of his back pocket. Sage’s name flashed over the screen and he answered immediately. “Sage?”

“Patrick traded himself for Kennedy and us,” Sage said, sounding breathless and furious and scared. Beyond her voice, Jono could hear the sound of honking horns, squealing brakes, and the snarl of beasts he remembered from the subway. “He gave me his dagger and said he wouldn’t use his magic. He—”

She cut off, her voice overridden by the sound of metal crashing against metal. Jono balled his empty hand into a fist, blunt fingernails cutting into his skin as his heart skipped a beat. He could still hear Sage breathing, so he knew she was alive, that it wasn’t the Mustang that had been hit.

“Your brother is hunting them,” Hermes said, raising an eyebrow at Quetzalcoatl. “Will you deal with that problem, or shall I? The dagger can’t be lost to the hells. That is power we can’t let them have.”

“You are quicker,” Quetzalcoatl said.

Jono was furious that all the immortals seemed to care about was the fucking dagger Patrick carried and not the man himself.

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