Blood and Fire: An Urban Fantasy (The Marked Book 1) by D.N. Hoxa

Author:D.N. Hoxa [Hoxa, D.N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: D.N. Hoxa
Published: 2020-06-19T05:00:00+00:00

14

Logan woke me up at five in the morning so he could get some rest, too. We left Nana’s Enclave at nine a.m., both of us surprised that nobody had come looking for us. Both of us were too shy to even look the other in the eye, although I suspected Logan was more angry than shy. Which in turn made me angry, too. The way we’d ended things the night before was still fresh in my mind. I remembered the reason why it had ended like that just as clearly as I remembered his lips on mine. His body against mine. The way he’d said my name, like I was the only woman he’d ever craved.

Very distracting, which was why I was trying really hard not to think about it. Once we left the Enclave, we kept our heads down and walked fast to the east, until we were a good distance away. I didn’t notice anyone watching us suspiciously, but one could never be too sure. Though we were walking side by side, wearing the same clothes as the day before, only clean, and with the same goal in our minds, it felt different to be with him now. Almost like someone had stolen our connection, and it probably had something to do with the fact that neither of us would speak.

We had our list of names and addresses from Virtual Disease X. Logan had wired him the other half of the money, and now we were going to go knocking on all their doors until someone could tell us what the hell was going on. One of them had to know who this kidnapping, Egyptian-rune-using asshole was. It was obvious that all the people in that picture were targets. One of them was going to tell me who they’d wronged in the past, who would want to hurt all of them at the same time, and why. And then, I was going to set a trap for that asshole. It would be easy, hopefully, once I knew what he really was after.

“I’ve been thinking about who this guy could be,” I said to Logan, determined to break the ice because I couldn’t stand to spend the entire day avoiding looking at him and not speaking at all. We weren’t dead, and only the dead didn’t speak. “He’s powerful, that much is clear, and knowledgeable enough to use Egyptian runes for spells. He’s probably very old.”

“Whoever he is, he’s better than the high priests of this city,” Logan said with a dry tone.

“Not necessarily better, but smarter. He knew how to catch them by surprise, at least.”

“No magian is a true high priest of magic if he can be caught by surprise,” he said, and it almost sounded like he was reciting a written law.

I tried to joke. “Let me guess—you were never caught by surprise.” I rolled my eye, too, so he could see my good one and know that I was being sarcastic.

It didn’t bother him, though.

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