Devil's Eye by Kait Nolan

Author:Kait Nolan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 2010-12-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

The cemetery was a half hour’s walk from the pond they’d surfaced in on somebody’s Garden District estate. Given their need for haste, Mick had shifted. A big ass dog stuck out a lot less than a bare-assed man, no matter how attractive that ass happened to be. And that was all anyone would see if they looked out at the empty street. A dog and a bedraggled woman without enough sense to get out of the rain.

Sophie wanted to run. The need to get back to the car, to make a plan, was gnawing at her. But after their ordeal in the catacombs, she simply couldn’t manage it. She’d pushed herself too far. The way her head pounded and her vision blurred, she was doing well enough to put one foot in front of the other without stumbling. Mick helped with that. He was so tall as a wolf, she could easily lean on his shoulders to steady herself. She felt somewhat better having him pressed close, her fingers threaded through his ruff. He was solid.

As they neared the back edge of the cemetery, Mick’s ears pricked up, his body going stiff. Sophie stopped, creeping forward as he did, following the unspoken order for silence. On the other side of the fence, the foliage rustled, and she dove for the cover of some bushes. Mick flattened against the ground.

“Anything?” The male voice carried faintly over the rain.

“Nah. If anybody else was standing watch, they bailed when the catacombs flooded again. Raines says the sensors aren’t picking up any signs of life down there. Whoever they were, they drowned.”

Sophie chanced a peek through the branches. She couldn’t see much. Just a moving blur, a deeper black within the shadows of a nearby tomb but it was enough to identify them. Shadow Walkers. The Council’s special ops division. We must have triggered some kind of alarm, she thought.

“Who drew the short straw to go down and see that the artifact is still in place?” asked the first voice.

“Nobody yet. Matthias doesn’t want anybody down there with the hurricane this close. The threat’s been contained. We’ll come back and check it once the storm’s past.”

Their voices faded. Sophie didn’t move, hardly dared to breathe. Nothing short of a Hunter was more deadly than a Shadow Walker. Able to travel by shadow, they could infiltrate virtually anywhere, pursue any target without being seen. If she and Mick had surfaced on this side of the catacombs, they’d be dead, or at the very least arrested. The Council wasn’t big on trials for those accused of treason.

The metal case holding the Eye pressed into her belly, a damning piece of evidence if ever there was one.

When something cold nudged her hand, she nearly screamed. Blood flooded her mouth from where she’d bitten her lip. Mick cocked his head in what she supposed was a canine version of Sorry, then tugged her toward the cemetery.

“They’re gone?” she whispered.

He nodded.

They skirted the edge as quickly as possible, circling around to the car.

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