Magic Triumphs (Kate Daniels) by Ilona Andrews

Author:Ilona Andrews [Andrews, Ilona]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2018-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

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THE MAGIC CRASHED on my way home. No new vehicles sat in the driveway and nobody came to the door. Curran usually heard me before I even pulled into the driveway.

I let myself inside. Curran did say he would buy a new car today. He might have gotten held up.

“Hello?” I called. “Anybody home?”

“I’m home!” Adora called from downstairs.

I went down into the basement. Fully finished, it had been converted into a makeshift hospital room, with Yu Fong resting in a hospital bed. An IV stretched from his arm. Next to him, in a large plush chair, Adora curled up with a book. Lean, hard, with her dark hair falling to her shoulders, from the back she looked familiar. My shoulders were broader, my frame larger, and I had a couple of inches of height on her. Other than that, replace her katana with Sarrat, and she might be the younger, teenage me.

“How is he?”

“The same,” she said.

Yu Fong showed no signs of life. I leaned close to him and put the back of my hand to his nose. A faint puff of air touched my skin. Still breathing.

“He’s pretty,” Adora observed.

“That he is.” He looked like a beautiful painting. “I wouldn’t try kissing him. He isn’t Sleeping Beauty.”

She wrinkled her nose at me. “Wasn’t planning on it.”

“Do you want to be paid from Cutting Edge or through the Guild for the gig?”

She tilted her chin. “I’m working pro bono.”

“Since when?”

“This is a family matter,” she said. “I’ll take care of him because you and Curran are family and you need help.”

“Who are you and what have you done with Adora?”

She grinned at me. “You’re not as funny as you think.”

“I’m funny enough. Come and get me if he wakes up.”

“You killed one of my sisters today,” she said.

News traveled fast. “I did. She wanted to kill Conlan and eat him.”

“Did she suffer?”

“Yes.”

“Good.” Adora winked at me. “I put Curran’s sweatpants on the stairs. I’m not going up to your love nest.”

“Love nest?”

“Your bedroom where you have sex.”

Oh boy.

“I haven’t had sex,” Adora volunteered. “But I’ve decided to try it.”

“Is there a particular person you want to try it with?”

“No. I’m thinking about it.”

“Sex is about trust,” I told her. “You’ll be at your most vulnerable. Try to choose well.”

She wrinkled her nose at me again.

I went up the stairs. A big paper bag sat on the first landing. I looked inside. Gray Pack sweatpants. Curran had grown up in them, and he kept wearing them despite us no longer being part of the Pack. One, two . . . Five pairs? Odd. He had two stacks of sweatpants in the closet.

“Hey,” I called down to the basement. “Who brought the sweatpants?”

“Some Pack werewolf.”

I walked upstairs and opened the closet doors. All of the old sweatpants were gone. Weird. I emptied the bag on the bathroom floor and sorted through the new sweatpants, checking the waistband and the elastic on the bottom of each pant leg for any hidden items.

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