jinn 01 - ember by schulte liz

Author:schulte, liz [schulte, liz]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2013-12-19T23:00:00+00:00

OLIVIA DIDN’T COME back with Baker. I knew I should have gone. Some days Baker was nearly more trouble than he was worth.

“He says I can recognize a demon. No amount of masking can hide one from me,” she said, splaying her hands and shrugging. “So at least there’s that. He had something he needed to do right now. He’ll be back.”

Femi produced a bag of corn nuts from her skin-tight leather outfit and tossed a handful in her mouth, crunching loudly. “What if Baker never came back to us? What if he is already a demon and he is just telling you that to give you a false sense of security?”

“Baker’s not a demon,” Olivia said calmly.

“How do you know?” Femi asked. “I would have sworn that other Olivia was you. Everything was right about her. The voice, the smell, the speech patterns, the memories, everything.”

“Then how did you figure it out?”

Femi looked at me. “I didn’t. He did.”

“We didn’t have the connection,” I said.

“So you couldn’t tell it was a demon by sight either?”

I shook my head. “How do you do it?”

She tilted her head to the side. “I can see souls and life forces.”

Femi’s eyes contracted. “So no shifter can trick you?”

“I wouldn’t say that. When Baker shifts, it’s hard to find him in the new identity. I haven’t dealt with any other shifter, so I don’t know if that is normal or not.”

“So it is reasonable to say you might not recognize one?” Femi said.

Olivia shook her head. “A shifter and a demon are two different games entirely. Demons don’t have souls or life forces. They are a void, a parasite in the world around them. They don’t belong here and they can’t hide that.”

Femi nodded, but I still wasn’t convinced. “What if they possess someone and they are hiding inside the person? There would still be a human soul. Could you really distinguish?” I asked, thinking about Malphas. She’d been every bit as much of an angel back when Juliet was dating a demon and she’d had no idea.

A cloud passed over her face. “That isn’t fair. I couldn’t see souls then and the angel was hibernating. I don’t know how I could have recognized him then. I saw the demon possess the man in the bar. I felt the ungodliness in my marrow. I believe Baker is right.”

I drew in a deep breath. Feeling and believing in something never made it true in my experience. “We need to test this before we trust it.”

“How?” Liv’s hands perched on her hips. “Do you want me to go find you a demon?”

I smiled. “No need. I know where one is.”

“You aren’t serious. You aren’t taking her back to that church, are you?” Femi asked.

“Liv and I are. You’re staying in case Baker comes back.”

“The hell I am,” Femi said.

“This won’t take a minute. We are getting the Belial and bringing it back here.”

Olivia’s eyebrows shot up. “To our home? Why?”

Why would we take him anywhere else? This was our turf and Olivia felt safe here.

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