Hell Sucks: A Reverse Harem Urban Fantasy (Selena Pierce Book 2) by Lucy Auburn

Author:Lucy Auburn [Auburn, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-10T04:00:00+00:00

As I headed back to my lab, I felt the urge to visit Selena draw me past her room. She was out; when I checked her charts I saw Sarah’s scribbled notes, and was glad that she seemed to be doing much better.

At least I wasn’t a complete failure to all my patients.

There were things I wanted to be alone for, so I locked the door to my lab, texting Sarah to let her know I was conducting an “unsafe” experiment. The chirp of my phone let me know she’d received my text and sent an “okay” back. Thankfully, she’d gotten used to my experiments by now; they were part of what made my unique fae biology such an asset. While other humans might die inhaling poisonous gases or testing an antivenom, I merely awakened my inner nine-tailed fox and let my body heal itself.

Using my powers was different now. It was getting easier than it used to be. I felt the fox in the back of my mind more often, its sly eyes staring at me, licking its lips from time to time. I was supposed to be mostly human; the fox wasn’t supposed to do much more than slumber unless I woke it up, and even then it was normally a subtle, quiet presence, lending me its powers and then falling back to sleep.

Things had changed since Melanie bit me. I had changed, in ways that worried me—and, I admitted to myself, excited me.

Pushing back my sleeve, I scraped a skin sample from the area with the scar and put it on a slide. I then took DNA from inside my cheek, plucked a piece of my hair, and drew a small vial of blood from my veins. With all the samples collected, I spent the next hour studying them.

And telling myself I had nothing to worry about, even as each and every test confirmed what I’d discovered a few days ago.

The fae DNA inside me was taking over, leaving little room for the human to survive. Soon, there would be nothing left of the Tae Min Lee I’d once been, and all of me would be fae.

If I even was me anymore once the fox took over.

Inside me, I felt it smirk, its eyes narrowed with dark amusement. When it chuckled I heard the sound of waves rolling in from a wild sea, gentle hands picking my broken body up to heal me—and change me. I’d thought that day was a blessing, a gift from the closest thing I’d ever known to God.

Now I wondered if it was a curse all along, fooling me into passivity until the day the trickster won. Closing my eyes, I took off my glasses and pinched the bridge of my nose, trying to quiet the fox’s voice in my head.

When I opened my eyes and looked around, I saw the world with perfect, inhuman clarity. Startled, I put my glasses back on again, and everything went fuzzy. My body was changing in ways I hadn’t even bothered to notice.

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