Against the Darkness by Kendare Blake EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Welcome to Lovelorn, Population Two
Sigmund’s hybrid idled silently as he and Frankie sat in the lot of Valley
View Park. So silently Frankie wouldn’t have known it was still running
were it not for his hand, tense on the gear shifter in case Jake texted them to
relocate in a hurry. He and his boyfriend, Sam, were running a bait play
somewhere in the park. Jake would use his werewolf senses to sniff out
demons, and Sam would linger enticingly nearby in an effort to draw them
out. Once they were out, they would give the signal, and Frankie would
arrive to slay them.
“This thing is really quiet,” she said, referring to the hybrid in the
opening to their saddest small talk of the night.
“My next one will be even quieter,” Sigmund commented. “I’m hoping
to go full electric, just for you.” He smiled without showing teeth. She did
the same. Then she sighed.
“I miss Hailey.”
“So do I,” Sigmund admitted. “I don’t like thinking about her all alone
for so long in that fleabag motel.”
“There are no fleas,” Frankie said. “Just roaches.” And water damage,
and structural issues, and a smell that was hard to describe. The motel itself
was kind of like a roach. It had survived the Spikesplosion. It was unable to
be killed.
“She could have stayed anywhere. She didn’t have to go…there.”
Frankie shrugged. “Vi’s room was paid up for the month. And
subsequent months were the cheapest around.” She prodded the half Sage
demon in the shoulder. “You know she could have just moved in with you,
if you weren’t being such a butt.”
“I’ve never in my life been a butt, Frankie.” He sat up straighter, mock
offended. “And even if Hailey and I were still together, wouldn’t her
staying with me have given away the plan?”
“We could have had you be neutral. Like Switzerland. Are they still
neutral?”
“It’s one of the main principles of their foreign policy.” He sighed
again, harder. “But I do wish…I just miss her.”
Frankie glanced into the trees. They weren’t that far from Vi’s “grave.”
After the fight in the warehouse, when Frankie sunk the Scythe into Vi’s
double’s stomach and then obliterated the Scythe into particles, they’d
hoisted Vi’s double’s corpse between them and taken it to the forest. It was
a long, disturbing walk, and Vi was no help—she couldn’t touch her double
without reabsorbing it, and she kept trying to make them do jokes from
Weekend at Bernie’s.
Sigmund followed Frankie’s gaze. “I see her sometimes at the grave
site.” He stopped by to monitor it, since it was a Sage demon mirroring
spell that was used to create the double.
“That doesn’t count as ‘seeing,’ Sig; that counts as stalking. Have you
been taking lessons from Grimloch?” But Frankie was no better—once
she’d seen Hailey coming out of a coffee shop and tailed her for three
blocks, unable to stop herself.
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