Rise: A New Adult Urban Fantasy (Spelldrift: Coven of Fire Book 1) by Sierra Cross

Author:Sierra Cross [Cross, Sierra]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781938767258
Publisher: Enigmatic / Elixir
Published: 2017-06-12T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

A light mist fell on us as Callie hugged me good night in front of Asher’s bookstore late that night. Normally I wasn’t a hugger but I leaned into it.

“I don’t know about you, but I’m beat,” Callie said with a sigh. “I never imagined using magic would be so exhausting. Tell Matt he’s a trooper.”

Asher had kicked Matt out before magic lessons began and to Matt’s credit, he took it like a grown-up. Okay, more like a pouty teen, but he didn’t throw punches.

Good news: Callie could scry just fine. Bad news: something weird was still happening with Liv’s signature and we couldn’t pinpoint her. My magic was still spotty at best. Asher only made a cryptic comment saying he’d figure out a way to find Marley. With what I saw of Charice, though, nothing short of his balls on a platter would placate her. There were so many things to worry about I could barely keep up. I’d just leave this one in Asher’s court at the moment. Right now I had to warn Aunt Jenn and it couldn’t happen over the phone. Matt would just have to stew a little longer.

I looked at my phone. It was after eleven; I knew Aunt Jenn was already asleep, but this couldn’t wait.

I let myself in with my key and disabled the alarm—the security code was my birthday. As I was contemplating the best way to wake her without scaring the crap out of her, she appeared on the stairs looking as if I’d woken her up. “Alix! Are you testing my cardio fitness? Or actually trying to give me a heart attack?” She tied the sash of her blue silk bathrobe and studied my face. “What’s wrong?”

“I think we need to sit down.”

At the kitchen table, over steaming mugs of chamomile tea that neither one of us touched, I laid it all out for her. The purple light. The demon entering the lab. Eric Starr’s dark energy. She listened, brow knit, worry on her face growing with each part of the story while I explained how dangerous he was. How perilous it was for her to work so closely with him, and that she needed to quit immediately. Find another job, a new career, new city…whatever it took.

“Alix, you’re scaring me.”

“I know, I’m so sorry.” Tears came to my eyes. Terrifying my aunt felt cruel, but it was for her own good. “I know it’s bad, but there are steps we can take to protect you.” I was about to tell her about how we could try to get her into a magical witness protection program—Matt thought this would definitely qualify—when she sat back and let out a long sigh.

“I know this is a huge transition in your life.” She took my hand in hers. “But this isn’t how the Alix I know handles adversity. Not with paranoia and fantasizing.”

Stunned, I dropped her hand. “You think I’m making this all up?”

Her gentle voice and the deep concern in her eyes was harder to take than derision would have been.

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