jinn 03 - vestige by schulte liz

Author:schulte, liz [schulte, liz]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Leaping Lizards LLC
Published: 2015-01-25T23:00:00+00:00

My phone rang, breaking the moment with Olivia. I leaned back and sighed. She gave me a watery smile. All of this was so much easier when I was angry with her.

“What?” I answered.

“You need to come here now,” Phoenix said. “To Xavier’s.”

“I’m busy.”

“Well, you’re about to get unbusy fast. Bring the guardian.” Phoenix hung up.

Olivia did up her shirt, her raw emotions once again buried under practicality.

“Phoenix needs me at the club.”

She nodded. “Do you want me to come?”

I shook my head. Phoenix had probably found Sybil and this was something I needed to take care of without Olivia there. “I got it.”

She frowned. “I want to help.”

I beckoned her to follow me and took her into the angel’s war room. “See if you can make sense of any of this.” I pointed at the boards of maps. “The black pins are the demon cells we know about. The white pins are the cleared cells, but I have no clue what the yellow or red ones mean. The angel was tracking something, and we haven’t been able to figure out what she was looking for yet. She already knew where the seal was, so it wasn’t that.”

Olivia walked closer to the board, inspecting each location. “Okay.”

I watched her for a few moments before I left. This couldn’t be the end of us.

Charlie shuffled into the living room before I could make it out the front door. She rubbed one of her little fists hard at her eyes, while the other hand dragged a doll along with her. We stared at each other for a moment until she dropped the doll where she stood and came over to take my hand. “Go?” she asked expectantly.

I shook my head. “Stay.” I walked her over to the room where Olivia was and scooted her inside the door. “Everyone else is gone,” I told her when she looked over at me.

She nodded. “We’ll be fine.”

Though she looked better, Olivia still wasn’t strong. Leaving the two of them alone gnawed at my insides. “I can be back here in seconds.”

“I know.”

I gave her a single nod and this time I did leave—though as soon as I stepped outside, I sent a call up to Quintus, asking him to come. Not that the guardian would be much protection, but at least he could run interference until I could get back should there be an attack.

I transported to my office in the club. Phoenix was there, pacing the floor.

“What the fuck took so long?” he snapped.

I gave him a level look until he averted his eyes. “Tell me why I’m here.”

“Where’s the guardian?” he asked.

“She’s busy.”

“You left her alone?” His head snapped up and something akin to panic flashed in the air.

“I’m not going to ask again.”

“They’re dead. They’re all dead.”

Liv?

Yeah, her voice rang in my mind. Need something?

Just checking on you. Calm washed over me and I refocused on Phoenix. “Who? Where?”

He looked at me with haunted eyes. “Downstairs.”

I trotted down the stairs, preparing myself for whatever I might find.

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