Smoke & Mirrors: A Dark Urban Fantasy Mystery (Hellbent Halo Book 2) by E.A. Copen

Author:E.A. Copen [Copen, E.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: E.A. Copen
Published: 2019-07-25T16:00:00+00:00

EIGHTEEN

KHALEDA

Red and blue flashing lights bounced off the building next to Eìdolo. Thoganoth slammed on the brakes, barely avoiding hitting the car in front of us, and let out a curse. Tight-knit groups of people shivering in their barely-there leather and latex stood around, conversing with police officers or limping toward ambulances.

I unbuckled my seatbelt and got out of the car for a look. A few paces forward and I had to stop and stare, dumbfounded. “Can’t I leave him alone for five damn minutes or is he going to blow up half a building every time I turn my back? That idiot!”

A hissing sound off to my right drew my attention. I shielded my eyes from the falling rain and the flashing lights to spy Niko pressed against the narrow space between one brick building and the next. White, powdery debris stuck to streaks of blood flowing from a nasty cut above his eye and coated his clothes. Niko glanced around the corner, nervously eying the police vehicles. When he did, I noticed an unconscious and bloody Josiah leaning on Niko’s arm.

I stomped across two lanes of road to grab Niko by the ear and drag him further into the alley.

“Ow! That fuckin’ hurts!”

I let him go. “Give me one goddamn reason not to make your brain melt out of your ears, Niko! What happened in there?”

He rubbed his ear and avoided making eye contact. “I swear I didn’t mean for him to get hurt. I’ll explain it later, after we’re off the street.”

I folded my arms and waited, forcing myself not to look at Josiah. He was in bad shape, but I’d seen him recover from worse. As long as he was still breathing, he would recover. Niko wouldn’t drag a dead man out of the rubble. Not unless he thought he’d gain something from it.

“Fuck, you’re a hard ass bitch, you know that?” Niko grunted and shifted Josiah’s weight. “Iosef told me if I brought him Josiah, he’d give me the name of the man who killed my sister.”

“You used him.”

“I didn’t mean for him to get hurt. That was never part of the plan. Things went to shit in there.”

I uncrossed my arms and glanced at Josiah’s unconscious face. When he woke up, he was going to be pissed, and rightfully so. Niko deserved some punishment for being an asshole and almost getting him killed, but it wasn’t up to me to deliver that. Josiah could deal with it himself. I just had to make sure Niko didn’t cause us any more trouble in the meantime.

“Get in the car, then. But you’re riding up front. Josiah goes in the back with me.” I laced an arm under Josiah’s other side and helped Niko carry him to the car. It wasn’t easy, shoving dead weight into the back seat, especially since he was all limbs and awkwardly heavy for someone his size. Somehow, we managed.

Niko hopped into the front passenger seat and closed the door, giving the demon a questioning look.

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