Deadly Portent: An Uncanny Kingdom Urban Fantasy (The London Coven Series Book 3) by M.V. Stott & David Bussell

Author:M.V. Stott & David Bussell [Stott, M.V.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Genre Reader
Published: 2017-05-18T06:00:00+00:00

I placed a cup of tea on the kitchen table in front of David and took my place opposite.

‘So, what do you remember?’

‘Not a lot. There was a fight, I was getting my arse kicked, and then, well, nothing until you started talking to me about chips.’

It seemed like whatever had overtaken David hadn’t knocked him through time, or obliterated him entirely. Instead, it had, for want of a better way of putting it, phased him out of this visible realm and hidden him in another. Like an unconscious move to yank him out of harm’s way.

‘How am I going to explain going M.I.A. for three days at work? To Layland?’

‘We can tweak the spell I use to make your colleagues accept me at crime scenes. Feed it with a ton of extra magic and make them forget they’ve even been looking for you. That you’ve been missing at all.’

David blew on his tea, then looked up at me, making my heart skip. I could see fear in his eyes. The eyes that, the last time I had seen them, had been engulfed with white hot flames. ‘Stella, tell me what’s wrong with me.’

‘I’m not… I don’t know. Not exactly.’

‘You know enough though, right? L’Merrier warned you about something. I know you didn’t tell me, but somehow I know he did anyway. I’m scared, Stella. Make me less scared.’

I wished I could.

‘Something happened to you. Mr. Trick, the most powerful Uncanny creature I’ve ever met, took over your body for an extended period. Couple that with the black magic I used to bring you back to life, and, well, it’s altered you.’

David nodded slowly as he took in the information. ‘Am I dangerous?’

I paused, then nodded once.

‘How dangerous?’

‘Dangerous enough that Giles L’Merrier told me I needed to murder you.’

David’s eyes widened as he went to speak, stopped, then tried again. ‘Okay. Well, shit.’

‘“Well, shit,” indeed. You’re pulling in a massive amount of magic. You’re not doing it consciously, it’s just happening, and you keep… turning. Having ‘episodes’, I suppose you’d call them.’

‘Did I kill anyone? At The Beehive?’

‘No, you just trashed the place and sent us all back in time for a bit.’

‘Oh. Cool.’

I thought about my lost opportunity to save my masters. Nothing about that was cool.

‘What do Giles and the others think I’m going to do, exactly?’

‘They think… they think you’re like a bomb. Of sorts.’

‘Okay.’

‘That you’re soaking up more and more magic, and, at some point, the end result will be more than a few trashed rooms and time travel trips. The end result will be London becoming a smoking crater and millions of people being… less than alive.’

David shrank back in his chair, trying to take it all in. It’s not every day you’re told that your future is probably going to amount to you murdering millions of people. All things considered, he took it pretty well.

‘Okay, could Mr. Trick be behind this? Could any part of him be hanging on through me, making this happen? One last nasty trick?’

‘No, I killed him.

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