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Chapter 1
Sadie
Fate is a fickle bitch. Yeah, I knew it. She’s probably laughing right now.
Losing my mates after I just got them caught me off guard.
Just yesterday, I had what I knew was a dream come true. The worst case scenario I dreaded over the past few weeks had just happened. I was living a nightmare.
I didn’t know what was worse—never meeting my mates at all or losing them before we had the chance to…actually live.
I understood why I only summoned my three demon protectors in my dreams before, keeping them out of the real world and in my head. I knew then that the possibility of them being taken away from me was very real.
My instincts were accurate. I mean, no one can have too much of a good thing before all hell breaks loose, can they?
My demons had just been stolen from me in the blink of an eye. But were they really mine to begin with? I was so stupid to think I could have them for so long and live thishappily ever afterthat only existed in the romance books I read.
They were gone. Swept away into some kind of magical mirror. Vanished without a trace.
I tried like hell to get them back, turning the apothecary shop upside down in search of what my Aunt Naima may have left behind. I thought of loophole spells. Shadow spells. Dark underworld magic.
Nothing worked. No amount of effort seemed to be able to fix it.
I was going up against the unknown. Since I didn’t know what evil took away my demons in the first place, I couldn’t figure out how to fight back—much less get them back.
This was the worse…
Not knowing who an enemy was…it was just so depressing.
I couldn’t blame this all on Mika. I entered the shop knowing the consequences. But, she had killed my aunt and I wanted my sister back. I could always blame it on that crystal globe she hurled at my mates. She had looked just as surprised as I was when it happened.
Aside from Aunt Naima being a practicing witch who dabbled in spiritual spellworking, I believed Mika knew nothing about magic. That’s what I’d been led to believe anyway. She wasjust a human. A mundane and my cousin—but not by blood. Well, up until recently, shehadbeen human. Now, she was turning into a vampire. And having drained someone to feed, she as a killer.
I couldn’t stay here any longer. I had to leave. It was quite evident that my demons were not on the Earth realm.
Loki, the cat, brushed up against my ankles as I walked over to the dead woman’s body. Her soulless eyes were wide open, staring up at the ceiling. Two small gaping wounds scarred her throat just where Mika had fed. She was fully clothed—dressed in tight-fitting leather with a black eye mask covering her upper face. Bright pink lipstick smudged her cheeks and smeared down her chin. She looked like she had just been having a wild night on the town before Mika got hold of her and drained her of life.
I sighed.
She had no identification on her. I didn’t know who she was, but I did know she was dead and she wasn’t coming back. And if she was coming back as a vampire, it would’ve already happened. I had waited long enough in the trailer.
I held my hand out over her body.“La flamme.”
I kept the magical blaze contained to the body until the fire went out and all that remained was ashes, and then I led those into an empty urn.
Loki scowled when a train whizzed by on the tracks behind the shop. Horns blared loudly and the floor rumbled under us. There was a moment when I thought pieces would fall to the floor as the commotion shook everything around us.
“Don’t worry, Loki. I won’t let anything happen to you. Aunt Naima took care of you, so I will, too.”
Loki purred.
“But first, let’s try one more time. Okay?”
Loki sat back on his haunches and looked up at me. The cat seemed disturbed and impatient to leave. Earlier, it scratched at the closed door and paced the entryway as if to tell me so. I wondered why it was so attached to me or even to Naima. The poor cat could’ve abandoned ship long ago via an open window while I desperately mulled over how to fix the situation. I even burst into tears at one point. I had no idea how long I’d been trying, but it seemed like hours now. Maybe longer.
I came to Earth from Shadow World with my demons, and I wasn’t prepared to leave without them.
Night was beginning to fall and there was no telling if Mika would come back to retaliate. I couldn’t stay here any longer, hoping that my demons would just walk out of the mirror just to say,“Psych, we tricked you.”It would never happen. They never played foolish games, especially when it came to me and my magic.
