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Tabitha snorted “Sounds a lot like my life”
“You think that’s why you were sent here?” A to capture or kill you?”
“No idea We tried to bind ht have backfired”
Tabitha shook her head “No It takes so with serious juice to rip someone from their universe and put them in another Definitely not a misfire or runaway spell Had to be done intentionally”
That did not h his shoe And if it was done intentionally, where was the responsible party?
Nick looked around nervously
Amanda pulled into the narrow, tiny driveway of a sot out as Karma parked her bike on the street in front of the house After dis, she took her helmet off and held it by the strap as she joined them then led the way to her front door
After she unlocked it, Nick followed them inside “So why exactly are we here?”
No sooner had he asked the question than a boent flying at his head With reflexes honed by fighting the worst of the paranormal world that liked to aainst the wall
Tabby gave him an impressed smile “Nice reflexes”
“Hey!” Karma shouted out in a hostile bark “What have I told you about that? Until you learn to pay bills again, lay offto?” he whispered to Tabitha
“Henrietta, I think”
He frowned “Who?”
“An irritating ghost” Karma set her keys down on the small table in the foyer before she placed her helmet on the coat tree “She came with the house and we’ve been at war ever since she told host told hihtail it, he’d vapor off so fast, all he’d leave behind was a blur “Why don’t you?”
Karma looked at hiical question “My house I told her when she learns to pay the bills, I’lla hit on the price just because she’s too lazy to pack her things and move on And let’s face it, she has a lot less to pack” Kar “Start with ain See how y’all like that, huh? I’ll knock doalls,Bauhaus on all the speakers I knohat a big Peter Murphy fan you’re not”
“Okay” Nick took a step closer to the door
Ahed “Relax, kid We’re here for Karma to commune with the spirits and see if they knohat’s after you and why you’ve been yanked from home With the exception of the Lalaurie mansion, her house is the most haunted in the city There have been more hast at her nonchalant tone over so was always co about his older brother and the faht All the Devereaux sisters were nuts “Are you serious?”
Nodding, Tabitha pointed to the living room “There was still blood on the walls from the last double homicide when she asted as he faced Karma “Why do you live here?”
“Any idea how much a house in the Quarter costs? Especially one this size? I got it for a steal”
“Yeah, but aren’t you afraid?”
Kar in this house is me Unlike others, I kno to protect ets cute Trust me, they have more to fear from me than I have from them And it seriously pisses them off” She headed up the stairs
Nick really wanted to leave
And I thought ed at his ar Never
Nick glanced up at the large wrought-iron light fixture over their heads and remembered when the one in Kyrian’s house had tried to turn hier He really didn’t want a repeat of that “Just don’t let nothing drop another chandelier on me”
With no real choice, he followed them upstairs to a bedroom that had been turned into a meditation room Except it had an altar in one corner with a collection of African and Native As, and rattles made fro on the opposite side The walls around hiold and white sta words Nick didn’t understand, Kar incense on the altar while Tabitha and Aed in a circle Kar over hie handmade feathered fan
Nick sank down on the cushion closest to him and looked at Tabitha and Amanda They joined in with Karma’s chant
Some invisible force pulled Nick’s hair
“Hey!” he snapped, rubbing at his head where it stung
Kare he couldn’t decipher
“I hope you’re telling it to leave me alone” No sooner had he spoken than another spirit punched hi, Nick hissed
The spirit jerked his hair again
Furious, he rose to his feet to confront his unseen torrabbed him by the throat and launched hiht in the h the rooled to breathe as so that felt like a boa constrictor wrapped hard around his body, squeezing it tight
Out of nowhere, a deep masculine voice whispered in his ear “Well, well What have we here? A tiny littleoffered forbefore I kill you”
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