Soul Reborn (Key to the Cursed Book 1) Read Free

dangerous. From now on, no one
will go out alone. A minimum of two hunters at all times.” Lilly paused and
folded her arms across her chest. “And yes, you will be with me ,
little sister.”
    Kit rolled her
eyes.
    “Dad would haunt me
the rest of my life if anything happened to you. You are my responsibility. You
will just have to deal.”
    “Fine.” Her sister scowled
again and sulked back in her chair. “Like he would care anyway,” Kit mumbled
under her breath.
    Lilly glared at her
sister. Kit was twenty-five years old, but could act ten years younger if the
moment suited her. Especially, when it came to dealing with their father. Her
sister’s resentment hadn’t changed in the least— if anything, it had worsened
over the last five years. It was an argument they had a thousand times, but she
refused to engage her.
    She had bigger
things on her mind right now.
    Still rubbing her
arms, Lilly broke off their staring contest and resumed pacing. Not even a calm
cleansing breath rid her of the sensations the dark reven had left deep in her
abdomen and against her skin.
    “What has you in
such a hissy?”
    “We have a new
enemy.” Lilly’s heart drummed in her chest, remembering how close it was, and
what feeling it had elicited deep within her core. Just the thought of it
flushed her insides with warmth. “I’ve never seen a reven like this before.”
    “Great, now they’re mutating ?”
    “I don’t know. Its
skin was black as tar, but the color shifted with the ambient changes in
temperature. It was only then that I could see the outline of tattoos on its
forearms, some type of symbols. It doesn’t make any sense. Revens don’t have
any higher brain function, but this one spoke to me. Its speech was heavily
accented, one I didn’t recognize.”
    “No, fucking way!”
Kit jumped out of her chair, her long black hair fanning out in all directions.
“The bastard talked to you? You must have been hallucinating.” She paced, just as
Lilly was. “Are you absolutely sure it spoke?”
    Lilly instinctively
drew her arms in tight around her. “It did more than that. It tried to kiss
me.”
    Kit gasped. “What?”
    Astonishment, then
anger flashed across her sister’s face. Lilly readied herself for the backlash.
    “You let a reven
get that close to you—are you crazy?” Kit clamped her hands on her hips. “And
you fucking lecture me .”
    Lilly sighed and
sat in the closest chair. “You’re right. It’s not that I wasn’t armed, but it
didn’t seem to care. And that is what’s concerning me.”
    “You’re sure it was
a reven? Maybe it was something else?”
    “I don’t know what
else it could be.” Lilly leaned forward and put her elbows on her leather
covered knees. “It was dead. No heartbeat, no breathing, no scent. And it was
colder than hell.”
    She shivered. It
was also gorgeous in every sense of the word, with broad muscular shoulders and
chest, and those black eyes that were riveted on her. Her heart raced and a
renewed flush of warmth cascaded through her body.
    Shit. She needed to get laid, apparently.
    “There’s no doubt
it was powerful. The stupid thing didn’t even flinch when I put my blade into
its chest,” Lilly said, biting at the edge of her fingernail.
    “What did it want
from you?”
    “I didn’t stick
around to find out. I sensed three more in the tunnel.” One larger than the
first but with glowing orange eyes. The huntress had become the hunted. She stood
up to adjust her sword and weapons belt. “I’ll warn the others. In the
meantime, where’s Kendra? Is she back yet?”
    “No. She’ll be at
that stupid museum until dark. You think after all that’s happened, she’d at
least keep track of the damn time.” Kit crossed her arms over her chest. “I had
to escort her back to the fortress again yesterday because she didn’t show up
before nightfall. And you think I’m the one at risk.”
    Lilly smiled. Their
youngest sister, Kendra, was like the