Demon Shade by Kara Silver

Author:Kara Silver [Silver, Kara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-30T16:00:00+00:00

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“What?” Kennedy’s knees knocked and she half-fell back against the wall. “But that’s…” Millions of adjectives rolled around her head, tumbling, jammed, unable to shoot down the slot. “Impossible,” she settled for. “Chris?”

He said nothing, just looked at her. It was as though they’d never kissed. Never dated. As though he’d never met her. Kennedy pressed her back into the chill of the stone wall. Her hands were against it and she made her index fingers work, the right scratching an H and an E and the left and L and a P. She didn’t know what kind of help she expected, or from where.

“You know how cops treat our sort.” Chandy’s voice sounded in Kennedy’s skull. But that wasn’t much help, was it? Something made her lips twitch, in a parody of a smile. “So, you haven’t had breakfast?”

“What?” Perhaps it was her nonsensical question that made Chris’s voice and posture wary.

“So there’s time.”

“For…?”

“You to believe five more impossible things before it. Let’s see… I’m getting a First on all my make-up work. Wyebury City’s gonna win the Championship League. Oh, I’ve got another one. This isn’t actually happening—it’s a reality show, and everyone knows it but me. I’m the dupe who—” She couldn’t go on. Especially as that last was something she’d wondered, since coming here.

“Kennedy, stop it.”

“Fine.” She pulled her hands free of the wall in case they sank through. Both fingernails were broken and one bore a spot of blood. She sucked it away. Aeth hadn’t helped earlier when she’d whispered his name into stone. Now, she’d scratched an entreaty, but seemed that had done squat, guardian-wise. She wondered idly if her blood had done anything. But then, she’d bled once into stone, here at Heylel… The memory of her cutting her finger on the sword the statue of the founder bore bloomed before her. So, twice. Maybe a third time would be the charm?

“Look, this isn’t easy for me.” Chris cocked his head at a sound from within the building. “But is there anything you want to tell me?”

“So much.” She bent her head so any shimmer in her eyes wasn’t visible and any tear would fall to the ground unseen. Maybe that might do something? You can’t get blood from a stone; tears falling on stony ground… She fought to keep things together. Anything I want to tell him… “And none of it I know how.” Because, how to tell ignorance and fear and loneliness and guilt and shame?

She raised her head and tipped it back into its old, familiar cocky angle. “And it’s nothing related to what you’re here for. I understand what you mean. That you believe I had something to do with the murder.”

“I don’t…want to. Just, Kennedy… I can’t help thinking back to what happened last month. You getting involved in a case, and such a terrible, shocking, brutal one.”

“That’s neither here nor there.”

That had Chris taking a step back, and Kennedy caught up with how callous it must sound. “I mean, I don’t have anything to do with this.

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