Storm Crossed (The Grim Series Book 4) by Dani Harper

Author:Dani Harper [Harper, Dani]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781503948945
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2018-01-08T16:00:00+00:00

SEVENTEEN

Most rooftops in the downtown area were hot, dusty places, with strange vents and stranger posts and poles, all crisscrossed with wires. The top of Brooke’s building, however, was a lush oasis in the middle of a barren desert. Lissy passed the large greenhouse and a wall of rolling carts supporting raised garden beds. On another day, she would have been content to remain among the soothing greenery. But there was more to the rooftop beyond the sea of plants. She looked in that direction and—dammit! A moment’s inattention allowed a stray melon vine to bring her down, skinning her left elbow in the process. She sat for a moment, picking tiny bits of grit and roofing tar from the wound and catching her breath. And wasn’t that just like her life with Fox? Things would go along fine for a while, then bam!

This whole magical thing was one of the biggest surprises she’d ever had, though. As Lissy got up and dusted off the knees of her jeans, she wished again that it could all be a mistake. No magic here, he’s just an ordinary boy. Well, as ordinary as a brilliant kid with a big heart . . . and as ordinary as the world would permit a child with Asperger’s to be. Still, those challenges seemed very small compared to what she and her son now seemed to be facing. Could the universe just cut me a break for once?

She paused to peer over the edge of the raised skylight that illuminated Brooke’s second-floor apartment over the shop. Aidan and Fox—plus three cats and a giant grim—were currently piled together on the big couch in front of the TV. Everyone looked happy enough, even Aidan with his arm bound up in a sling. Man and boy were laughing over something . . .

Normally, Lissy tried not to hover, but it had been damn difficult to let her son out of her sight again so soon. Yet how could she talk freely in front of him? Not about this stuff. Not yet. Hell, maybe never. She’d lingered for several minutes after Brooke and Ranyon left, and it was only the knowledge that Trahern patrolled the neighborhood and Ranyon had painstakingly reinforced the wards on the building against evil intent that permitted her to walk away at all. Even a housefly with a bad attitude couldn’t get inside now.

For that matter, the ellyll had used his magical talents to “set the storeroom to rights,” as he called it, restoring everything from boxes of stock to furniture to the walls and floors themselves. There was no longer the slightest sign that anything had ever happened, no hint that a creature from hell had nearly destroyed the place. Yet Lissy knew that no one was going to go in there alone for a very long time . . . except perhaps Fox. He seemed completely matter-of-fact about the whole incident. “Braith said the monster was just hungry,” he had told her. “And then Trahern came in and blasted it, just like I do in my games.

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