Grave Witch by Kalayna Price

Author:Kalayna Price
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Paranormal, Urban Fantasy
ISBN: 9780241956656
Publisher: Roc
Published: 2010-10-05T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

I lay in the darkness trembling, trying to find the strength to sit up. I couldn’t find it. So I lay there on the dusty floor. In a borrowed dress. With a roomful of pissed-off cops on the other side of the wall.

“What the hell are you doing in my crime scene!”

Scratch that. The most pissed-off cop of all was now in the room with me.

With my grave-sight gone, I was completely blind, but I didn’t need my eyes to recognize that voice—Falin had yelled at me enough in our short acquaintance that it was ingrained in my memory.

I’d have liked to be nonchalant, but I’d exchanged essences with Death, been attacked by a malevolent spell, created a ghost, gotten my own essence back, and then had a seizure. The past ten minutes had been rough. I wasn’t up for snappy comebacks. Hell—I was barely up to breathing.

So I just continued doing exactly what I had been doing. I lay there and trembled.

“Get up,” Falin commanded. “Get up.”

He reached down, grabbing my elbow, and his gloved hand burned my arm like a branding iron. I yelped, the pain making my eyes sting with tears.

Falin jerked back. “Damn, you’re freezing.”

I heard his steps move farther into the room, circle back. When he spoke again, I could tell he’d crouched near me. “What the hell happened in there? Who was that man, and where did he go?”

I didn’t say anything.

“Answer me,Alex Craft, or so help me …” He left the rest of the threat to my imagination.

“I can’t.”

There was a long pause after I spoke. Then he said, “Fine.”

His hand locked on my arm again, but this time his touch wasn’t blisteringly hot. My temperature couldn’t have risen that fast; how did he … Body temperature wasn’t what I should have been worrying about. Something hard and metallic snapped around one wrist, then around my other wrist.

Handcuffs? Oh crap, he’s arresting me.

“Get up,” he said again, and dragged me by my cuffed arms to a sitting position.

I tried to get my feet under me, but there was no doing it. My legs were like jelly, and I couldn’t stop shaking.

Falin seemed to realize the futility as well, because he leaned me back against the wall.

“I’ve seen you after raising a shade before. You weren’t this bad off.”

“Wasn’t a shade.” But I couldn’t say anything more.

The oath bound my tongue. I drew in a deep breath and leaned my head against the wall. My cheeks felt sticky.

Tears were still leaking from my eyes, mixing with the dust. I moved to scrub the gritty mess away, but my hands were cuffed behind my back. The effort almost toppled me to the floor. Falin’s hands steadied me.

There was a rustling sound in front of me; then fabric fell around my shoulders. Falin’s tux jacket? He tucked it around me. I didn’t feel any warmer for his effort.

“You can’t see a thing, can you?” he asked.

“It’s dark in here.”

“Alex, I have my flashlight pointed at you.

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