Grimoires of London 1 by DB King

Author:DB King [King, DB]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-04-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Joe woke early the following morning and stared at the ceiling of his bedroom. He had, unsurprisingly, perhaps, after the preceding day’s adventures, slept deeply and without a single dream to trouble his repose. It must still have been early, for only the gray tentative light of approaching dawn illuminated the room. The foot posts of his four-poster bed were still just black lines in the gloom.

For the first time since he had become privy to this new, exciting, almost unbelievable magical world, he was slightly uneasy in his mind. That was saying something, seeing as there was a basement packed to bursting with all sorts of creatures that, should the mood take them, could probably maim, kill, or eat him—or a combination of the three—as easy as pie.

He ran his mind back over what had happened after Vasmo had led him, Thornas, Kestrel, and Lucius back into the house. There had been some desultory chat between the three wizards, but Lucius hadn’t uttered a single word. Having eaten already, not to mention being fairly knackered from the physical and mental exertions of the day, Joe had excused himself and headed up to bed early. Lucius had already gone ahead of him, though, shown to a room by Lilli. The last glimpse that Joe had caught of the black-haired young man before he marched sourly from the room, had been of the bright green eyes fixed contemptuously in his direction.

Lucius… he thought, rolling onto his side with a sigh. There’s something about that guy. Damn, but I hope he doesn’t decide to take up the position of chief pain in the neck. He’s got that aggrieved toff insulted by the commoner thing going on. He’s obviously not happy about finding out that he’s not the one that’s going to be bonded to Grim.

“Can you really blame the little thwarted scalawag, eh?” Grim said from the bedside table that he was lying on. “I mean, c’mon, look at what he’s missing out on.”

“Maybe, I should just let him spend the day with you inside his head, rabbiting on like something with a bell clapper instead of a tongue,” Joe said, his voice vaguely muffled by his pillow. “He might sit down to dinner thinking that he actually got off the hook. He might see that he’s dodged an extremely wise-cracking smartass bullet.”

Grim, who was never one to let a light insult derail his train of thought, flipped up onto his edge. The two dents in his cover that Joe had always thought looked a bit like eyes were more pronounced in the dim light. The mouth-like scoring had a roguish slant to it.

“I know, I know, if I had a mouth, I’d have one big enough for ten rows of teeth,” the grimoire said, “but that’s just because I’ve got so much helpful and wise advice that I wish to impart to you, young human.”

Joe grunted. “I don’t suppose all that hard-earned percipience could wait until I’ve got a cuppa in my hands, could it?”

Grim considered this.

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