Demon Curse: A Paranormal Urban Fantasy Suspense (Demon Cat Chronicles) by Marie Flynn

Author:Marie Flynn [Flynn, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Small Fish Publishing
Published: 2021-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

After feeding his fish and scrubbing his skin raw in the hot shower for way longer than necessary, Nick strolled through his building, grateful for the bright lights and clean floors.

Clouds in shades of gray hovered softly around each employee, but the density was more pronounced at their hearts. It was like peeking inside their heads, seeing the real person beneath the smiles and words. He knocked on Jason Flick’s door and pushed it open before waiting for a reply. The jittery and fearful manager of accounting had a light gray cloud. The man was mostly good, but Nick wasn’t sure if that information had value.

“Is there something I can do for you, boss?” he asked.

“No, just checking something. Continue on.” Nick closed the door and went straight to Gary Levens’s office. Rinse and repeat, except Gary’s cloud was much darker. Nick wondered what his own looked like.

Nick popped into the nearest employee restroom and stood in front of the sinks. In the mirror, his wasn’t a shade of gray at all. The heat swirling behind his eyes made his irises glow a brilliant red. An employee pushed through the restroom door and startled at seeing him. Nick shielded his face while the employee said, “Everything alright, boss? You don’t usually come in here.”

“I’m fine.” Nick’s tone was sharper than he’d planned, and his employee shrugged, entering a stall.

Nick looked in the mirror again, and his irises glowed ruby red, like Andras’s had in the gym. What would happen if anyone saw this? Nick focused on his serene fish, coasting through the turbulent saltwater waves, and his irises swirled back to their normal shade of blue. No wonder why Andras was always so cool and collected—he had to be.

Nick rode the elevator down to the ground level and followed the spinning doors onto the city sidewalk. A gust of autumn air ruffled his hair, but the chill didn’t bother him. That was a nice benefit. Glancing up and down the sidewalk full of pedestrians, not one aura was pure white.

A young man smeared in filth with a torn knit hat, concert tee shirt, and holey jeans ran by Nick with a purse flailing behind him. The panicked man’s aura was black. Moments later a man’s voice shouted above the crowd to stop the thief, but the perpetrator was long gone, swallowed by the sea of people.

Nick needed to clear his head. He crossed the busy street, filled with honks and rumbling engines, and pushed through the door to the coffee shop. A blast of heady espresso and cinnamon filled his nose and cleared his sinuses. A television against the back wall babbled with the latest news, which sounded so petty now. What were human squabbles compared to the demons and angels lurking around them? He hadn’t seen an angel yet, as far as he was aware, but just because he couldn’t see them didn’t mean they didn’t exist. Humans were blind, but Nick wasn’t anymore.

A few customers sipped and talked, a few more typed on laptops.

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