Blood and Blade (Goddess with a Blade #6) - Lauren Dane Page 0,90
they’re short lived. I mean, because the witch or Vampire would be drained and then would die, but you know what I mean.”
“But we have those spells she wrote, right?” Rowan asked.
“No,” Clive said immediately. “You won’t be suggesting she use it on you so you can track the spell.”
Rowan rolled her eyes but said nothing else, which meant that was exactly what she was about to suggest. He’d knock her out and drag her home and lock her in a room to keep that from happening. She’d hate him for a while but she’d be alive.
“That would only strengthen our Fae nemesis anyway. I need Rowan at full strength and I certainly don’t need any of her power fueling someone we had to fight right after.” Genevieve paused and stood. “I need a moment to make a call. Please stay here no matter what you see out there.”
Genevieve left the suite and headed out to a terrace just beyond.
* * *
“Darius,” Genevieve called into the night.
Ozone again; it smelled like lightning was about to strike and before she could think on it more, Darius stood facing her wearing leather and looking very dangerous.
“I’m sorry to interrupt you but I have a question,” she said.
His look shifted into something else. Something a bit more welcoming.
“I told you to call me when you needed me so there’s no need to apologize. Let’s hear it.”
* * *
She came back inside a few minutes later and Rowan just stared at her for a bit until she finally said, “You really just said his name into the wind and he showed up?”
“Easier than hoping I’ve got enough bars to make a call I guess. Anyway, he answered a question I had. I can set up a spoof. Like when spammers send email and it looks like it’s from a legitimate address but it’s not.”
“How do you know about that stuff?” Rowan demanded.
“I get junk email too. Sometime back someone spoofed my email address to send spam in my name and I had to deal with a bunch of silliness.” The witch shook her head.
Clive’s world had gotten ever so much larger and much, much stranger since Rowan had come into it.
“So what does this spoof entail?” Rowan asked.
“I need to take Patrizia’s spell and bend it a little. Twist it and add some things of my own. So I’ll set it to send a wisp of energy. Just a very small sip. But it’ll be enough to get us a roadmap to our Faerie. Then we’ll find him and kill him. Or her. Or they. Whatever. Dead is dead. Darius tells me that back in Faerie is just as good as dead, but I’m of the opinion that dead is only as good as dead. If this Fae can get out and cause all this trouble here, why would we let him go back and potentially cause trouble again in the future?”
“I’m with you there,” Rowan said.
Clive agreed.
“I will accompany you both, along with my security team,” Clive told them both. “Don’t argue, Rowan. This is an all hands on deck situation. You said so yourself. So let’s meet this foe with all the force we’ve got. A bunch of warrior Vampires will help.”
Rowan sighed. “All right. But if they die I don’t want to hear any complaining.”
“They’d be dead so how could they complain?” Genevieve asked.
“They’re Vampires. I bet they can complain from basically any state of existence or nonexistence. What if he has an army? This Fae of ours?” Rowan said.
“He could, I guess. If it’s an army of Fae we’re fucked. But I don’t think so. A single Faerie is hard enough to hide from what I understand. A group of them in the same place? I’m guessing I could see it if I was using my othersight. That’s just a huge blob of power. Maybe I’m talking myself into that, but I’m fairly sure that’s how I feel. And given what I’ve been told, a single Faerie will be hard enough to defeat.”
“I’ll have David with me, and a few Hunters that are in the outlying area. I can call them in on this.”
“My concern is that all these power signatures will be hard to disguise. I can blind the Faerie to several of us, but we’re talking teams now. That’s more difficult and I need my power to face the Faerie. No more than five of us. And Star.”
Rowan frowned. “I want her clear of this. She could get