Panther Prowling by Yasmine Galenorn

Author:Yasmine Galenorn [Galenorn, Yasmine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Urban Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal
ISBN: 9780515154764
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2015-01-26T16:00:00+00:00

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We found ourselves once again in the backyard behind the house. I was both exhausted yet on an adrenaline high. Wilbur looked like he wanted to skedaddle but all he did was to ask for a chair. Vanzir ran to get one for him.

“So now what?” Camille knelt in the grass beside him. She was shivering. The rain was still pouring down. It was getting so wet there would be flood warnings out before morning. The rivers around Western Washington flooded with alarming frequency, and people knew that if you built on a riverbank, you chanced flooding at some point in your life.

Wilbur gratefully dropped into the chair Vanzir had brought. “Thanks, Vanzir.” He regarded us quietly. “I have no idea what the fuck to make of that whole little interlude, but I’ll sort it out later. Right now, I have the spirit trapped in this crystal and it has to do what I command it. But I can only give it five commands before the spell wears off. If I were more powerful, I might be able to bind it for life, but after I died, it could really fuck me up good. It’s better this way—give him back to Ivana after we’re done with him.”

I hadn’t thought about it before but it made sense. A necromancer who died while still in control of spirits would then be in the spirit world with them, and they could wreak havoc on him because the majority of bindings were broken by the death of the spellcaster.

“How do you need to work this? What do you need us to do?” Camille sounded as weary as I felt.

Wilbur glanced at her, then at me. “I need to go in there, with some backup, please, and release the spirit, then order it to contain the devil-wraith in the vessel she gave me.” He held up a miniature headstone. “Seems mighty small for such a massive spirit, but having seen Ivana’s garden, I’m going to give that broad a pass on trusting it will work.”

“Morio and I will go with you.” Camille pushed herself to her feet, wincing.

I followed suit. “I need to go, too. Both Ivana and the Autumn Lord gave me strict orders that, if the spirit somehow manages to get free of Wilbur’s control, I’m supposed to blot it out of existence. I know what he did while he was alive. I don’t have any more sympathy for him when it comes to Ivana’s games.”

They both stared at me. Wilbur cocked his head to the right. “Is that so, Pussycat? Then I’ll be extremely careful, because if he’s that dangerous, I’ll be the first target he goes for if he breaks through my control.”

“You’d do well to be cautious.” I held his gaze for a moment and, for the first time, didn’t feel like Wilbur was trying to strip my clothes off in his mind.

Morio motioned for us to follow him. “Let’s get this over while we’re all still conscious enough to muddle through.

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