Evildoer by Dannika Dark

Author:Dannika Dark [Dark, Dannika]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-11-11T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

When I turned away from Christian in the courtyard, I flashed back to the wall and scaled it. Blue’s falcon led me down the street before landing on a fire hydrant. I slowed down, my boots crunching loudly on the snow. I kept a normal walking pace as I neared an alleyway on my left. A dark figure cowered in the shadows, his body pressed against the nearest wall. Though he tried to control his panting, he couldn’t hide his frosty breath or buzzing energy.

I slowly turned on my heel to face him. “Come out and fight like a woman,” I taunted, still armed with stunners. I didn’t want to take them out just yet. Stunners were rare, and if I missed and this guy bolted, I’d lose my weapon. Instead, I held a defensive stance, balling up my fists.

The man emerged from the shadows, and a chill went up my spine when I looked into his malevolent brown eyes. Blue light flickered in their depths—a trait only seen in the older ones, especially when summoning their light. When a powerful wave of energy thumped against me, I took a step back. Usually when a Mage flared, it made my hair stand on end and snapped against my skin. This was more like a bully shoving me and daring me to make the first move. I’d never experienced anything like it.

“You are Charmer,” he said, his Chinese accent thick as he canted his head to the side.

Did he say Charmer?

I reached inside, feeling my light and that of the Mage I’d killed earlier. His powers would hang around for about a day. Usually that wasn’t enough time for me to figure out what the rare gifts were. Swell. The one time I need a badass gift, I get the gift of seduction. While people would be sexually drawn to me, it wasn’t going to win me any battles. Especially with the way this guy was looking at me as if daydreaming of the million ways to rip me apart.

He squared his shoulders, hands clasped. “I have walked this earth since before your ancestors. You will never catch me.”

When he flashed away, he knocked me down in the process. I scrambled to my feet and went after him. While he couldn’t run across the snow easily, some parts were flattened from pedestrians and cars. I followed him into an alley, where he hurriedly jumped onto a dumpster and reached for a fire escape. I climbed up after him and barely grabbed his foot before it slipped out of my grasp.

While the rungs on the ladder were slick, my fingerless gloves made the climb up the rusty contraption easy. He disappeared onto the roof, and I slowed my ascent, gripping each rung tightly in case he leaned over to kick me off. I climbed onto the roof, and to my surprise, he was still on the run.

I shot after him, the surface slippery under my feet. When he stepped off the ledge and jumped to the next building, I followed him without thinking.

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