Highborn by Yvonne Navarro

Author:Yvonne Navarro
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Detectives, Contemporary, Fiction, Fantasy, General, Angels, Demonology
ISBN: 9781439191736
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2010-10-26T09:18:00.818942+00:00

Fourteen

Brynna had just settled onto the bus seat when she glanced to her left and saw the nephilim killer through the window.

She was up and across the aisle in less than the time it took to inhale, but he was already out of sight. The hard-eyed driver, who was watching her in the rearview mirror, didn’t stop or slow down when Brynna lurched to the middle exit door and yanked frantically on the call line for a stop. Brynna reached for the emergency knob, but the slightly shrill voice of the driver stopped her.

“You pull that knob, lady, and you will never ride my bus again!”

“I have to get off,” Brynna snapped. “I have to go back!”

“It’s not my fault you forgot your purse or your cell phone or whatever,” the driver shot back. “That knob is for emergencies only, and I don’t see any emergency happening right now on my bus.” The woman glanced at the road, then her gaze cut back to Brynna’s in the mirror. “Next stop is two blocks down. You can walk back like everyone else.”

Brynna’s fingers hovered below the knob, then she let her hand fall back to her side as she craned her neck and tried to see if the nephilim killer had come back onto the street. The place where she had seen him was fading fast behind her. She rode this bus to work every morning that she had an early job, and while she was building a nice bit of savings, a car was still a long way off in her future. Did this prissy-faced little woman actually have the authority to forbid her from riding it? Brynna wasn’t sure but she couldn’t take the chance. It was infuriating, but she could endure it because it wasn’t fatal; the nephilim killer might be hanging around the building, but Mireva was long gone to school.

Brynna resisted the urge to wrench at the call line, instead giving it an exaggeratedly gentle double pull—ding! ding!—right before the bus reached the stop. Perhaps this sliver of say-so was all the control this woman would ever have over any part of her life. The driver coasted the bus to a stop, then pulled the lever that released the doors and waited, stony-faced, as Brynna called out a cheery “Bye!” and jumped off the bus. It roared away, but Brynna barely noticed—she was already dashing back toward her building, moving as fast as she could in her business suit and high heels. Her pace was far better than a normal person’s, but it still wasn’t good enough.

The building looked as it always did: dirty, run-down, and depressing, a structure that the sun’s rays had somehow skipped. Brynna easily picked up the nephilim killers’s scent; what should have been sweet and delightful was, as it had been that first time at the drugstore, infused with the caustic smell of gunpowder. Not as strong because he hadn’t fired his weapon recently, but it was still there.

She checked the

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