by Alex Bledsoe
Sham did not change expression. Moon sighed and shook his head. To me he said, “You and your little friend better get going.”
I needed to know one more thing. I took out my keystone and carefully placed it on the stone floor. Then I crushed it beneath my heel.
Nothing changed. I glanced down at Gozel, whose open eyes were starting to turn milky. The spell died with her, it seemed. If it ever really existed.
I took Auko’s hand and led him around the fallen men. At the bottom of the stairs, I turned back and said, “You could’ve trusted me and let me in on the plan.”
“I don’t even know you,” Moon said.
“You knew the people who sent me to you.”
“Names. You could’ve gotten them anywhere.”
“He got one of them from me,” Jane Argo said as she came down the stairs, dagger at the ready. She stopped and looked around at the carnage like she saw this sort of thing every day. “What’d I miss?”
“Not much,” I said. “Where were you?”
“Making sure their ships wouldn’t be taking anyone anywhere. They’ll be at the bottom of the harbor by now.”
“And this place will be a pile of smoking rocks by sunrise,” Moon said.
“So, the good guys won, huh?” Jane grinned and put her dagger away. “You found the little nose-picker too.”
“We’ll take care of getting the others home,” Camina said.
Moon didn’t seem inclined to shake hands, so the three of us headed up the stairs. About halfway up, Auko asked, “Was that man one of the good guys?”
Jane laughed.
“Depends,” I said. Because with people like him, and me, it always did. “But tonight, yeah. He was.”
About the Author
ALEX BLEDSOE is the author of the Eddie LaCrosse novels (The Sword-Edged Blonde, Burn Me Deadly, Dark Jenny, and Wake of the Bloody Angel), the novels of the Tufa (The Hum and Shiver, Wisp of a Thing, Long Black Curl, and Chapel of Ease), and the Memphis Vampires (Blood Groove and Girls with Games of Blood). Bledsoe grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. He now lives in Madison, Wisconsin. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Begin Reading
About the Author
Copyright
Copyright © 2016 by Alex Bledsoe
Art copyright © 2016 by Priscilla Kim