Awakening by Melainie Nilles

Author:Melainie Nilles [Nilles, Melainie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: urban fantasy, magic, contemporary, swords, sorcery, love triangle, daemons, modern, otherworld
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

The large club was packed and noisy with barely room to move except on the dance floor below the upper deck, which arched around half of the area like a theater setting. At one time it had been a used as a theater.

Lilly took a breath of the energy thumping through the club. Sweat and perfume mingled into an aroma permeating the air.

Her friend Trisha led their group of four through the tangle of bodies bouncing and weaving to the throbbing music, the short red dress tight to her curves. The heavy beat drummed in Lilly's chest, carrying her feet to the rhythm. A few men made eye contact but returned their attention to their partners.

Part of her ached to have Rian with her. No. Not now. He was gone, and she wished she had someone she could talk to, to share her concerns and know that someone was on her side in the freak show that had become her life. He would have assured her about these daemons.

But he wasn't hers any more, and she didn't know who would listen without telling her she was crazy.

That's why she was there—to refocus her attention on something else and let loose. After the strange woman had vanished, she needed to get out among the living, normal people. She had called up her friends to escape, not wanting to wait for Jaz's friend Mychel to show up; for all she knew, he was even crazier and more dangerous. A quick shower and change into a clinging black dress that showed off her curves, and she had joined her friends for dinner. They talked and joked like nothing had happened, and Lilly was grateful, but she said nothing about her experiences of the last few days.

They found a place to sit at a table just vacated along the side of the dance floor.

"Now to get some drinks," Lilly shouted over the music. She smoothed back her hair loose over her bare shoulders.

Trisha flashed a thumbs-up. Wilsa and Danni didn't notice, their eyes scanning for men. Lilly could have cared less, but maybe she could find someone to ease the pain of her heart and distract her from the strangeness that had become her life.

A particularly roguish man smiled their way. She fanned herself in a light-hearted attempt at fun and all of them giggled like school girls. He was cute! So was the next. Maybe she had died and gone to some other realm, one where all the guys were hot and none of them would break her heart. In fact, she expected every one of them had no intention of a relationship.

"Did you see that?" Danni leaned close enough for a blue streak among her brown hair to brush Lilly's shoulder. "He's mine, ladies. I saw him first." She squeezed out from behind the table and leaned over. "Order me a toxicola. I'll be back with company." In her tight, thigh-length dress, Danni hurried away.

"We won't see her again." Wilsa rolled her eyes but smirked in the direction their friend had disappeared into the swaying mass of bodies.

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