Mark of Damon: A Witch's Consorts Novella (The Witch's Consorts Book 6) by Eva Chase

Author:Eva Chase [Chase, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781989096666
Publisher: Ink Spark Press
Published: 2020-06-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Damon

I eyeballed the delivery van with a skepticism I couldn’t keep out of my tone. “You’re going to drive all the way to L.A.?”

Jin laughed as he tucked another painting into the back storage space, which between the two of us we’d almost filled. “I’m not a glutton for punishment. I hired this company to drive the pieces there, and I’ll fly down in a couple of days. Can’t take all this on a plane.”

No, I guessed not. I hadn’t realized he had this much stuff in the whole building, but somehow most of the artwork in his gallery area was still on the walls, from what I’d seen.

He motioned for me to follow him, and we crossed the sidewalk in the dwindling daylight. The sky was just starting to darken, the street lamps coming on with a faint glow. When Jin had asked if anyone could come by to help him pack up, I’d volunteered to swing by after work with a generosity I might be regretting now.

At least the late summer heat was retreating. The long-sleeved shirt I’d put on this morning had been weighing on me all day, but I didn’t dare take it off. The silvery mark of my scar had crept a few inches across my skin out from under the cuff. How the hell else could I hide it? Especially when every now and then it gave off that eerie shimmer.

Small price to pay for what it let me do, right? But I wanted to be sure I had a complete handle on this new power before I tried to explain it to anyone else. I had to be able to reassure Rose that no matter how I’d gotten the mark, I’d mastered it for my own ends.

“This is the part I really needed another set of hands for,” Jin said as I trailed behind him up the stairs to the second floor storage room next to his workspace. “Thanks again for pitching in. By the time I had the dates sorted out, the guy I’ve hired to help out around here couldn’t make it.”

“It’s no problem,” I said. “We’re all family now, right?”

Jin smiled in a way that made me feel guilty about the fact that I’d suppressed a bit of sarcasm in that remark. He led me to some sort of sculpture thing constructed out of paint cans, rope, polished chunks of glass, and what looked like a rusted bicycle frame missing its wheels. The whole piece was wider across than I could stretch my arms.

“Wow,” I said, which seemed like the most appropriate response. Further confirmation that I really didn’t get art. Some of it, anyway. Even I couldn’t deny that the treatment our artist was giving Seth’s gazebo was turning out spectacularly. Rose was going to flip over it.

More than she had for my early apples, no doubt, but hell, how could I have competed? Later, when I had more practice with my newfound magic, I could conjure more. I’d offered her something first—that should be enough.

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