jinn 02 - inferno by schulte liz

Author:schulte, liz [schulte, liz]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Leaping Lizards
Published: 2014-10-11T22:00:00+00:00

The apartment door was a dark blue-green and bore a heavy golden knob directly in its center—just as I remembered it. Nothing had changed. That’s what happened when you lived in a two hundred year old apartment building. My phone buzzed with a message from Baker telling me what he and Femi had found. I scanned the text quickly and slipped the phone back into my pocket. I knocked. I didn’t know if Sybil still lived here or if she had moved on years ago—as a general rule we didn’t live anywhere more than five years—but at least it was a place to start looking. Footsteps approached the door and I waited.

Sybil answered the door, looking the same as she always did, with her gypsy skirt, unruly hair, and dark eyes. A jinni and a succubus. Ours had been more of a partnership than a romance; it was a simpler time. Together we made several fortunes and brought companies to their knees. We made quite the pair.

“Have you come to kill me?” she asked.

“Not today,” I answered just as conversationally.

“Then why bother.” She tried to shut her door, but I held it open. She huffed. “Fine, since you insist, come in.” She stepped aside. “I expected you sooner.”

Everything about her dwelling was exactly the same. The same clutter and messy stacks everywhere I looked, and, of course, no mirrors. The same cloying smell of cloves and nearly spoiled fruit. I went over and opened a window. “I’ve been busy,” I said.

When I turned back, she was lighting a cigarette. “It is like no time has passed—but we both know that isn’t the case. Much has changed. You for example.”

I gave her a single nod. “Life is change.”

“Oui. Look who is now the philosopher.” She blew a ring of smoke in my direction. “When do you plan to kill me, philosopher?”

“When it suits me.”

Her tongue darted over her lower lip and her pupils dilated. “Is that today?”

I shook my head. “I already said it wasn’t.”

“You wouldn’t have come all the way to France to be vague. There must be a reason. Let me hear it.”

“What did they offer you, Sybil?”

She took a long draw on her cigarette. “I can’t see how that matters now. I failed to weaken the angel, therefore I did not receive what was promised. The past is behind me.”

“Yes, but what did you want?”

She jutted her chin up. “Why?”

“Perhaps there could be a counter offer for your services.”

A slow smile spread over her full lips. “I knew you would tire of the angel. When they told me you had left, I was happy for you. You were never one to be ruled, but aligning with an angel? That was unexpected. But a clever, clever ploy.”

She moved closer, looking up at me through her thick black lashes with dark mischievous eyes. Her draw was even stronger now than it had been before. She had only grown more powerful since we were together. Her lips crushed into mine and an immediate fog tried to cloud my mind.

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