Witches of Bourbon Street by Deanna Chase

Author:Deanna Chase
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780983797838
Publisher: Deanna Chase
Published: 2012-05-25T22:47:12+00:00

Chapter 15

Before I even realized what I was doing, my hands wrapped around Lailah’s slender neck and squeezed. Not enough to totally cut off her airway, though I wanted nothing more than to do just that. Instead, I shook her a few times and backed her up until I had her pinned against her car.

“What the hell do you think you’re up to?” I demanded.

She coughed and clawed at my fingertips. “Get…off…me.”

“Not until you answer my questions. What did you do to Kane today, and why have you been in our dreams?”

The shock of my attack wore off and her face twisted into outraged indignation. Staring hard into my eyes, she dropped her hands from her neck. The next thing I knew, a slow burn started from the middle of my palms, moving outward toward my fingertips. Her eyes narrowed and my fingers suddenly burned as if they were on fire.

I yelped and snatched my hands back. When had she gotten her power back? The red ring around her neck made me retreat as the mortification of what I’d done sank in. “Oh my God,” I mumbled.

“He’s not likely to help you after you assaulted one of his angels,” she said angrily. “Who do you think you are?”

“The girlfriend of the man you bewitched then seduced today in his office!”

Kane appeared by my side and put a hand on my shoulder. “Maybe we could try discussing this in a calm manner.”

“I doubt it,” I said, returning to the porch. “But we can try, I suppose.”

Lailah took two steps and made a show of rubbing her neck. No doubt for effect. “Kane, what is she raving about?”

I still couldn’t read his emotions, but his tense stance betrayed his anger. “You tell me. I have about two hours of my life I can’t seem to remember and I’m told they were spent with you.”

“What?” Lailah moved to stand in front of Kane. It took all my willpower to not attack her again. “I haven’t seen you at all today. What would make you think that?”

“You have got to be fucking kidding me,” I said. “I saw you, mauling him in his office. And I don’t mean I glimpsed someone. I saw your face. You looked right at me before you bent over him and bit his chest.”

Lailah, who always kept her emotions close, dropped her guards. Total confusion, mixed with fury, shot straight at me full blast. No, she hadn’t just dropped her guard; she’d intended to let me experience exactly what she felt. Fine. If she was sending it, I’d do my best to understand exactly what was going on inside her.

I took it all in, letting Lailah’s emotions flow through all my senses until everything she felt was my own. Hurt, indignation, anger. It consumed me down to my soul. There was no need to delve further; she’d sent me everything she had. My arms twitched, trying to release the foreign energy. Slowly I pushed it away, letting it ease into the night.

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