Hunters #14 - Hunter's Fall by Shiloh Walker

Author:Shiloh Walker [Walker, Shiloh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780425241806
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2011-06-07T04:00:00+00:00

NEED warred with duty.

Dominic couldn’t leave Jazzy here alone. She’d take off. He could see it in her eyes. That would be bad news all around, for him, for Jazzy, and for . . . Nessa.

Hell. He didn’t even know if she was Nessa. His gut said Nessa was here, and he could scent her all over this kid. But the kid kept calling her Morgan.

Morgan. Who in the hell was Morgan? The name had to mean something, otherwise it wouldn’t have turned his blood to ice. Storming out to the deck, he pulled his cell phone out and made a call to Excelsior.

Kelsey’s voice was bright and clear, despite the fact that it was two a.m. “Do you ever sleep?” Dominic demanded.

“Oh, sure. When people let me. But people have this annoying habit of calling at two in the morning,” she said, her voice droll.

“Sorry. Question . . . does the name Morgan mean anything to you?”

Her silence said everything.

It stretched on for . . . ages. It was probably only a few seconds, but it seemed to take forever. Finally, her voice soft and worried, she asked, “Why?”

“Just answer the question.”

“Yes. It means something. Bad news. Now answer my question. Why?”

“I don’t know. Who in the hell is Morgan?”

There was a soft murmur—Dominic recognized Malachi’s voice and he swore. “Damn it, one of you answer me.”

Kelsey sighed. “Dom, it’s complicated. This was one of things Malachi wanted to talk to you about before you left, but you weren’t in the mood to wait, and frankly, it didn’t seem to be anything you needed to know.”

“Obviously, it would seem different. Who in the hell is Morgan?”

“She was a witch that Nessa fought a few years ago. One who nearly killed Nessa—hell, we thought she did kill her. She was a dream thief, and she used blood magic. She was bad, bad news, all the way around.”

Blood magic. That bit, he pretty much understood. “What’s a dream thief?”

“Rare talent. Kind of a psychic vampire. It’s a witch who can slip into a person’s dreams and suck their life force out of them while they dream. They can drain a person dry—even kill them.” Kelsey’s voice was heavy and tired. “Like I said, bad news.”

“But Morgan is dead, right? Dead, buried?”

“Well . . .”

Just when Dominic thought things couldn’t get any stranger. But things could always get stranger—always. Kelsey managed to break it down to the bare bones, explaining in under ten minutes, and even though she’d kept it simple and concise, his head was spinning when he hung up the phone.

So Morgan’s body wasn’t dead. Nessa’s was.

Morgan’s soul was gone, but Nessa’s wasn’t.

Son of a bitch, what in the hell was going on?

All the questions tumbled through his mind, but before they could take over, he shoved them all aside, because in the end, none of them really mattered. He had the answer he needed—he knew who Morgan was, or who she had been, at least.

Whether or not she was truly dead, he didn’t know, but that didn’t matter now, not to him.

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