Blood Magic (Hidden Magic Book 2) by Jayne Hawke

Author:Jayne Hawke [Hawke, Jayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: urban fantasy
Publisher: Kitsune Ink
Published: 2019-10-31T05:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-SIX

Even Ethan had to admit that they might have ordered a little too much food. Ten large pizzas had been piled up next to five cartons of sweet and sour chicken, four kung po chicken, three racks of ribs, and five fish ’n’ chips. The main kitchen table we usually sat around had been claimed by the fae food. I wasn’t even sure what most of it was. There was a sapphire-blue soup that Kerry had claimed. The white glittery food looked like it might have been some form of fish.

Cade insisted that I tried the elf specialty, fireborn venison. I looked down at my plate, which the pack had heaped high with slices of pizza, chips, half a battered haddock, and now a large steak of fireborn venison. As the venison was on top, I began with that. Having never had venison before, I had no idea what to expect.

The dark red meat melted on my tongue and gave way to a warm spice with a slight berry aftertaste. It was incredible. I was about to take another bite when Dean put what looked like half of a crispy duck on my plate.

“I’m making sure you get your fair share,” Dean said.

He’d replaced the blood-stained dark-green plaid shirt with a grey plaid shirt and a fresh pair of pale blue jeans. There was still a sharpness to his eyes, though, where the hound within hadn’t quite settled.

“You haven’t told us about your day,” Ethan prompted.

He had already devoured an entire pepperoni pizza and was on his second battered haddock.

“I got a call from your office earlier. There was a blood witch not too far from home. I headed over and dealt with it,” I said with a shrug.

The pack paused and looked at me.

“By yourself?” Dean asked.

“There wasn’t anyone else,” I said a little too defensively.

“I knew you were a badass,” Kerry said with a grin.

I relaxed a little.

“Tell me everything,” Ethan said.

“She literally fell on her own knife and died. It was honestly kind of tragic. Had the victim hung up like a kosher heifer and was sucking up the blood with what seemed like more or less normal blood magic. I didn’t manage to get much evidence from her, but I think she might have been one of those blood draining murderers,” I said.

“So, she was a vampire,” Kerry said with a grin.

“A day walker no less,” Cade added.

I scowled at them both.

“She wasn’t a vampire,” I said.

She had been very eager to get my blood. That could just have been where she could feel my magic, though. She definitely wasn’t a vampire.

“When I got there, she’d was just finishing draining a young fae mongrel. I didn’t see any sign of where the blood went, which was weird.”

Cade and Kerry looked at each other. They spoke in unison.

“Vampire.”

I sighed and took a bite of my duck.

“She clearly drank it,” Kerry said.

I didn’t say a word. I wasn’t going to encourage them.

“Did she use a magical signature you’d recognise? Was there anything unusual about her that we could look into?” Ethan asked.

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