Speak of the Demon: A Paranormal Urban Fantasy Romance (Deals with Demons Book 1) by Stacia Stark

Author:Stacia Stark [Stark, Stacia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

14

Danica

Vas was waiting for me when I left my apartment after lunch the next day. I’d spent the morning attempting searching online, in a fruitless effort to locate Mary and narrow down the arrows used to shoot my leads. I hadn’t found anything helpful about either.

“Where to?” Vas asked.

“Do you sleep on my roof or something?”

He grinned. “Or something. What’s our plan today?”

“I need to go back to the Mage Council. I need to research the witch I’m searching for, and I have a friend who I want to take a look at my arrow.” I wished I’d been able to do it yesterday, but the library closed early, and when I’d asked if Cara was around, a sneering mage had told me she was out on ‘important’ business.

“Arrow?”

I filled Vas in on the asshole who was killing anyone who seemed to know anything connected to my mother’s murder.

He frowned. “Someone thinks you’re getting too close to something they want kept hidden. Have you told Samael about the first arrow? You haven’t, have you?”

I stopped walking and my mouth fell open. Then I managed to pull myself together and narrowed my eyes warningly at the demon. “Look, Vas, this is going to shock you, so prepare yourself.”

His dreamy eyes sharpened in interest. “What?”

I smiled sweetly. “Samael has nothing to do with my life, other than the fact that I’m temporarily working for him. I know demons can’t help their instincts with people they consider ‘theirs’, but that’s not my problem. In six days, I’ll never see the winged pain in my ass again.”

Vas gaped at me. Then he let out a strangled sound that seemed like a cross between a laugh and a gasp.

“Just tell yourself that, witch. Ignorance is bliss.”

I scowled at him and slammed the door of my car behind me, ignoring his chuckle.

This time, when I arrived at the facility, Vas didn’t complain, simply took his phone out of his pocket and leaned against my car. This seemed suspicious. I gave him a squinty-eyed look and he simply smiled at me.

I sidled up to him, peeked over his shoulder and almost choked as I got a glimpse of the bright pink app. “You’re on Portal?”

He flashed me a wicked smile. “Hey, a guy’s got needs.”

“Why’d you swipe left on that light fae? She was cute.”

“Would you like me to micromanage your dating life?”

“Fine. I’m going, I’m going.”

There were lines forming for all of the elevators, so I took the stairs to the 6th floor. The library was hushed, the books hundreds of years old. No one really read books anymore— everything was digital— but some of the books in this library were also from before the portals opened and during the decade of despair. If the wards ever failed and this building went up in flames, everyone who worked here was expected to get the books out. Even if it cost them their lives.

Humans, witches, demons and mages— all were paranoid about their libraries. But the Mages were some of the worst, and it was almost impossible to actually check a book out of this library.

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