The Cursed Fae (Accessory to Magic Book 2) by Kathrin Hutson

Author:Kathrin Hutson [Hutson, Kathrin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Exquisite Darkness Press
Published: 2021-01-17T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

As soon as Jessica quickened her pace, scanning the street ahead to calculate some kind of escape route if another thuggish asshole got out of that car, the Lincoln sped up again. With a squeal of tires and a loud rev of the engine, it was gone.

Now, the only thing she could hear over her quickening breath was her own footsteps beating it down the block.

Okay. Maybe she was just getting paranoid now. Maybe the driver had slowed to look through something on his phone or check the back seat. Maybe nothing over the last few days had nearly as much to do with her as she’d thought. Maybe…

The echoing shuffle behind her definitely sounded like footsteps. They weren’t hers.

Jessica sped up again, straining to listen for proof that she was right. What she wanted was proof that she was being paranoid, because then she could finally loosen up about it.

But no, those footsteps were heavier, slightly off-rhythm with her own.

She turned around in a feigned attempt to look back down the street, acting like she was about to cross. Then she saw the homeless man who’d literally just asked her for money standing there on the sidewalk twenty feet behind her. He was hunched over, hands stuffed deep into the pockets of his heavy jacket riddled with holes, staring right at her.

Another car passed on the street in the opposite direction, the headlights flashing across the man’s face in the darkness. Jessica caught the briefest flicker of his human illusion shimmering away from his features to reveal an orc’s protruding tusks and the sneer aimed at her. The illusion returned as soon as the passing vehicle disappeared down the street and turned the corner.

The orc chuckled.

Jessica spun around and power walked down the sidewalk. Why was she running away? Oh, yeah. Because she couldn’t take on an orc in the middle of the street for any human around to see. And if she did stop to fight him off, it wouldn’t be quick. It’d be painful—for both of them—because all her magic that would’ve ended this little encounter in seconds was tucked away at the bank. Right where she wanted it. Until literally five seconds ago.

Hopefully, the orc was just as concerned about openly firing attack spells on a public street as she was. Hopefully, Black Mark was exactly where Google had told her it would be on the other side of the next intersection.

The pedestrian light blazed with an orange hand. No walking.

Yeah. Right.

Jessica darted across the street between two cars beginning to speed up seconds after the light had changed. The driver of the sedan she jogged in front of laid on the horn, and she flipped them the bird without bothering to look that way. She just had to get off the street, where public magical duels were a lot less likely, even for a random orc dressed like a human.

More car horns honked, presumably as the orc chased after her through the busy intersection. Then she saw the red and orange neon sign for Black Mark above the next door down.

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