Second Breath Academy 3: How To Banish Evil (A Paranormal Academy Romance) by Leigh Kelsey

Author:Leigh Kelsey [Kelsey, Leigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-10-10T22:00:00+00:00

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Third Time’s A Death Charm

Kati woke up to the disorienting feeling of a heavy weight resting across her middle, and warmth all around her. Her face was pressed against bare skin, her head tucked securely under Salazar’s chin. He must have had a crick in his neck by now, holding her like this all night, but Kati smiled, cuddling into him. Guilt and self-loathing hovered, ready to swoop in and make her stomach knot and her eyes burn, but for these few sleepy minutes she let herself relax into Salazar’s arms, his chest rising and falling evenly against hers, his scent filling her senses.

Your strange exuberant friend slid an envelope beneath the main door, Freddie said, more awake than Kati. She cracked an eye open and squinted at her boa familiar as he slithered along the floor towards the door, his tail curling into a question mark.

Her strange exuberant friend … Gull? Maybe it was a message telling her he couldn’t get an anti-death charm.

Her stomach twisting, Kati carefully slid out from under Salazar’s arm, pausing to glance down at him. His expression was smoothed out in his sleep, both the wicked grin and the ever-present knot between his brows both gone.

Kati brushed a stray lock of black hair from his face and slipped out of the room, leaving him and Dolly to sleep as Freddie guided her over the orange paisley rug in the front room to the door, where a square of white paper was waiting as he’d promised.

She slid her fingernail beneath the envelope flap and ripped it open, her gasp loud in the earning evening quiet as a flat disc tumbled out onto her palm. He’d done it—he’d found one, and left it for her. She hadn’t even given him the money for it yet…

He’s a loyal friend, Freddie said, peering up at her.

“Yeah,” she agreed quietly, choked.

She had the charm. She could go get the lieutenant, go save Iain.

Hope crushing her airways, she unfolded the square of copier paper Gull had and swallowed at what he’d written.

You know me. If it was someone I love, I’d do some pretty reckless shit to get them back. Just be careful, and don’t go alone.

He’d signed it: Gull, your BFF.

Kati laughed, the sound getting stuck in her swollen throat. She folded up the square of paper and tucked it in her bra for safe keeping, turning the bronze disc over in her hand to peer at the symbols inscribed on its surface.

They were the same on both sides, not that Kati knew what any of them meant, but she recognised the circle in the dead center of the disc—the snickering joke of every health and safety class, the Circle of Life. Every time Miz Jardin said the term and explained that it was the most important thing in their work, someone broke out into song, belting the Lion King at the top of their lungs.

Checking the bedroom door was still shut, the room beyond it quiet, she threaded

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