from The Shelf 2 : Cursed
(Bri Brewley is back in Book 2.....)
~
Money talked; there was no
way around it, even in the psychic business.
Bri knew enough to keep it short and to the point. “I’m not a child of a demon, but I did get
attacked by one several months ago. It
killed my best friend Aeryal and I was lucky not to get killed too, but then it
took something from me….”
Here she paused, leery of the scorn
which she knew was coming. Psychic or
not, even Leticia would be a little skeptical without meeting the horrid
demon. “It took my-,”
“..heart,” Leticia finished without
opening her eyes.
Surprise halted Bri’s
sentence. The gypsy knew? “Uh, yeah…but how did you-…well.” Bri snapped her mouth shut. Leticia was advertising psychic services,
after all. “Yea,” she nodded, “well, the
demon has my heart, for safekeeping, and I can’t get it back unless I do
something impossible, basically murder, which I won’t do, so I need a way to
get it back from him. Like now.”
A long breath whooshed out of her
after she finished her long ramble. She
studied the gypsy’s face to see if the pallid woman had been able to follow all
of that. Leticia gave no indication that
she had.
Nervous now, she took two more
steps forward. “Please. Please help me.” Without warning, the panic seized her again
and Bri almost doubled over under the sheer intensity of it. “I want to be normal and….,” she breathed in
deeply, “..I don’t want to die, like Aeryal and Shanice.”
For one
instant, Leticia seemed pitying. Those
hooded eyes opened only slightly. Her
voice came out so softly, Bri had to strain to hear it. “If only you had come to me before they
claimed you. But now, it is too late.”
~
Read more in my upcoming novel, The Shelf 2 : Cursed
(Book Two in the Dead-End Ave series)...
Kish Knight
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