Street Magic by Caitlin Kittredge

Author:Caitlin Kittredge
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Kidnapping, England, Parapsychology, London (England), Mystery & Detective, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy - Paranormal, Contemporary, Fiction - Fantasy, Fiction, Fantasy, General, Visionary & Metaphysical, paranormal, Magic, Police, Policewomen, Science Fiction And Fantasy, London, Fantasy - Contemporary, Women Sleuths
ISBN: 9780312943615
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2009-12-17T06:57:54+00:00

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Chapter Twenty-nine

"Jack!" Pete shouted as she opened the door to the flat. "Jack, you need to keep your door locked. This isn't a good neighborhood."

"Pete!" Jack came rushing from the kitchen, Parliament dangling from the corner of his mouth. Smoke trailed behind him like a cluster of familiars. "Fuck all, Pete, where the bloody hell have you been?"

"Are you all right?" Pete said, taking him by the chin and examining his eyes. Jack's pupils were large and wide, glimmering like glass.

"Maybe. Yes. I don't know." Jack rumpled his hair and then slumped. "I thought you'd gone off."

"I just went to run an errand," said Pete. She grabbed Jack's right forearm, examining the tracks for fresh bruises. He jerked it away.

"I didn't bloody use. I took some uppers. Couldn't focus."

"Oh, for the love of sweet infant Christ," Pete shouted. "Jack, first you despise me and then you pop pills the minute I'm gone from sight! What is it?" She formed her hands into fists, released them, because hitting Jack wouldn't make him tell her.

"Jack," she said softly. "I'm not moving from this spot until you answer what it is I did to you to make you this way."

He pinched the spot between his eyes, creasing a furrow in the skin. "You left me, Pete," he said. "You just fucking left me, that day. The only person I let in a little bit and she leaves me on the floor of a fucking grave and never shows her face again. Felt bloody marvelous when I woke and realized that, thanks."

Pete looked at her feet. A splash of blood from Grinch-ley's operating bay sat like a teardrop on the toe of her shoe. "I thought you were dead, Jack. You were just lying there& you were gone."

"And you never bothered to find out differently, did you?"

"I never did anything," Pete said desperately. "I ran out of the cemetery and all the way home and I locked myself in my room for two days and cried until I couldn't breathe. But I never told a soul, because there was never a soul I could tell. Da eventually figured out we'd been seeing each otherdidn't tell MG, thank all that's holyand he lit into me right proper.

"Da told me&" Pete chewed on her lip for a moment. She'd long since forgiven Connor for the lie, but she couldn't be sure Jack would. "Da told me you died, Jack. And that it would be best to forget you."

"Cunt," Jack muttered.

"Well, he never did like you," Pete said. "You shagged his oldest and put his youngest into a blind fit."

Jack dragged on his Parliament and refused to look at her. "I waited around London for a fair time after I got out of the hospital. I guess I was hoping you'd show up looking for me."

"I did," said Pete. "Every face on the street. Every day. For all the time until I went away to university. Eventually, though, I listened to Da. I tried to

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