Flesh and Blood_An Urban Fantasy Novel by J. A. Cipriano & Conner Kressley

Author:J. A. Cipriano & Conner Kressley [Cipriano, J. A. & Kressley, Conner]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-12-24T16:00:00+00:00

14

I stood as quickly as possible. Renee’s words and tone suggested she was afraid I was going to take a moment to get back to myself, to let all of the nonsense I had just been through sink in. I couldn’t do that though. If what she told me was true (and I was sure it was), not only had I been out of the game for two entire days, but something awful had happened in the interval. Given the spectacularly high bar of ‘awful’ that had been set lately, there was no way I was going to stay in this bed another minute.

Turned out I should have though. Life would have been far simpler that way. As I popped up, gaining my footing, a rush of blood ran to my head, making me dizzy enough to have to grasp the wall for support.

“Stop,” she said, looping an arm around my waist and trying to angle me back into bed. “Lay back down, just for a minute.”

“No.” I pulled away. I was angry, and not just angry because of whatever horrible thing had come to pass while I was snoozing. I was pissed off because I had failed. I had let my guard down and allowed Bandhal- whether he was in his right mind or not- get the jump on me.

I should be dead right now. I deserved to be dead right now, and that meant leaving Gary, and Renee, and all the other woefully underprepared people of this city to fend for themselves.

The fact that I wasn’t dead had absolutely nothing to do with my own resourcefulness or skillset. It was grace or something that looked a lot like it. It was either the spirit of my mother giving me one last push in the right direction, or my dying mind saving itself through a hallucinogenic manifestation of something I desperately needed to see.

Whatever the truth was, it was unacceptable. I was stronger than this. I was better. If I wasn’t, the people around me would pay for that as some already had. I wouldn’t allow that to happen ever again.

“How did I even get here?” I asked, pulling away from Renee and watching the sting on her face harden as she realized I wasn’t going to let her put me back into that bed.

“Bandhal brought you. He said the two of you had a disagreement, that he almost threw you into some huge black hole thing. He’s been in shambles about it ever since.”

A wave of indignation moved through me though it passed with just as much ease. Being angry at Bandhal wouldn’t do me any good right now. Whatever happened, happened. Though I was pretty sure the two of us would never be brunch buddies after this, I also knew he was still my best chance at getting the information I needed. So, I only had one choice.

“Come on. Let’s go see the others,” I said, pushing myself off the wall and taking Renee’s hand. I wasn’t

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