04 Shadow Blood - Witch Fairy by Bonnie Lamer Read Free Book Online Page B

Until a few weeks ago, she didn’t even know other realms existed.”
     
    “And she has no magical lineage that you know of?”  Adriel sounds suspicious but I have no idea why.  Maybe she thinks I helped her?
     
    I shake my head.  “No, she doesn’t.  She’s my step-dad’s sister, so not the same bloodline as me.”  I hate referring to Dad as my stepdad.  How simpler my life would have been if he was my biological father.  On the other hand, I’d never have met Kallen.  It’s a give and take, I guess.
     
    “And you were in the Fairy realm when this happened?”
     
    I’m starting to feel like I’m getting the third degree.  “Yes, I was,” I say more shortly than I had intended.  I don’t want her to know she’s getting under my skin.
     
    Keeping her eyes straight ahead, she says, “Yet, she was able to make contact with you.  Without having any idea of where you were.”
     
    “She knew I was in the Fairy realm.”
     
    “And she has accompanied you there?”
     
    “No.”
     
    “Then how did she know where it was?”
     
    Oh.  Good question.  “I don’t know.”  I sound a lot less cocky than I did a few seconds ago.  It is strange she found me.
     
    Adriel gives me a look that says she thinks there’s more to the story than I’m telling her.  Apparently, there’s more to the story than I know.  But how do I convince her of my ignorance?  I guess, considering her earlier statements, it shouldn’t be too hard.  “Maybe because my brother is half Witch?  Could his magic have helped?”
     
    Now she’s looking at me with disdain.  Punching.  Darkness.  I’m so torn.  “Your mother allowed a Witch child to remain unbound?”
     
    I scowl at her.  “No, she didn’t.”
     
    “Then his magic is rendered useless.  He could not have helped in any way.”
     
    I’m really getting annoyed now.  “You seem to have some theory brewing in your brain.  Why don’t you tell me what you think happened?”
     
    She’s saved from answering me by a rush of air that comes from behind us, nearly knocking us over.  My wings encircle me, literally covering me from head to toe and I’m forced into a crouching position.  A feeling of dread washes over me as I feel the presence of unchecked evil surround me. 
     

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter 5
     
    “Come out little Angel, we want to play.”  This isn’t the singsong voice from before.  This is the voice that you expect to hear coming from your closet when you’re five because your mom or dad forgot to close the door.  This is the voice that reverberates through your mind, looking for recesses to hide in, so it’s ready when you fall asleep.  Then it terrorizes you all night. 
     
    My skin suddenly feels as if millions of leaches are sucking at it, draining my life energy from me, leaving me a cold, empty shell.  But the leaches aren’t on the outside.  They’re on the inside, trying to come out through my skin.  I brush at my arms and legs, but it doesn’t help.  Whatever is trying to eat me, or my soul, can’t be swept away that easily.  The sucking is painful now.  The glow from my wings has to be about four hundred watts, at least, but that doesn’t even faze whatever this is.
     
    “You are not an Angel of Death,” the voice says and it echoes down the corridor.  I swear I hear hushed whispers and the licking of Shadow lips as they think about devouring me.  “You should not be here little Angel.  Did Rashnu send us a treat?  A Fallen Angel, perhaps?”
     
    I try to pull magic, but I can’t.  There is no magic in this realm except for what’s coming from my wings.  Okay, I guess it’s time to see just how much control I have over them.  I can hear Adriel calling for me.  I believe she’s doing her best to drive the darkness away, but she’ll never get to me in time.  I can feel the evil seeping under my feet and the sucking feeling has brought me to my knees as my