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Master of Smoke

Master of Smoke

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Autoren: Angela Knight
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more weight than worship in being a god. And I would know.”
    She swallowed. “You’re a god?” Oh, great. Time to fit Dave for a tinfoil hat.
    “Not anymore.”
    What the hell does that mean? “Ummm. Not anymore?”
    The blue gaze went distant. “Once I was. Many, many years ago. I do not remember how many centuries gone. After a thousand years or so, even such dark memories dim.” Rising to his feet, he started across the field in the direction of their wrecked car. “We must leave. Warlock will try to steal my powers again, and I don’t have the strength to stop him. He’s kept just enough of what he has taken to bar me from taking my power back.” A muscle flexed in his angular jaw as if he ground his teeth. “But he won’t keep it long. And he will regret the theft.”
    Centuries? Did he say centuries? Eva hurried after the stranger in her lover’s body. “Look, what exactly are you? And what happened to David?”
    He looked around at her in surprise. “I am David.”
    “No. No, you’re really not.”
    Smoke started to speak, then closed his mouth and shook his head. “No, I suppose as far as you’re concerned, I’m not.”
    “Then what the hell are you?”
    He hesitated a moment even as he lengthened his stride until she had to run to keep up. “That would take entirely too long to explain, and we must get out of here now.”
    Eva jolted to a halt in the knee-high kudzu, eyeing her poor Ford Focus in dismay. “We’re not going anywhere in that car.”
    Her baby had gone into the ditch at an angle, hard enough to crumple its front end like a crushed beer can. The right front wheel was bent completely under the body, and the vehicle tilted as it sat nose-down so the left rear wheel was completely off the ground. Looking through the shattered windshield, Eva saw the limp white shapes of both deployed air bags. “It’s totaled.” She felt sick, thinking of her thousand-dollar deductible. Managing that and the rent this month was going to be a bitch. “I’ll have to call a wrecker and have it towed.”
    “Warlock will be here before the wrecker arrives.” Smoke handed her the sword and stepped into the ditch.
    Biting her lip, Eva eyed the werewolves’ vehicles. None of them were damaged at all, though she couldn’t imagine herself playing Hell’s Angels on one of those big hogs. As for Smoke/David—who the hell knew what he could do? “We could take the Hummer. Bet Wolfie left the keys in the ignition.”
    Smoke shot her an impatient look. “Do you really want the police to find you driving a vehicle whose owner has been chopped into very bloody pieces?” He shook his head. “The cat outdid himself. He’s quite protective of you.”
    Puzzled, Eva frowned. “What cat?”
    “Our third spirit brother.” He bent, hooked his hands under the car, and heaved upward, jerking the Ford’s front end out of the ditch with a grunt of effort.
    Damn, Eva thought in stunned astonishment, I’m sleeping with Superman.
    Smoke dropped the crumpled front end of the wrecked car on the shoulder with a grinding crash.
    “Wow.” Eva took a step back as he scrambled out of the ditch. “That was damned impressive, but the car’s still not going anywhere. Not in the shape it’s in.”
    “Patience, child. I’m not finished.” Smoke grimaced as he put a hand to the small of his back, arching his spine and rolling his shoulders. “Gods and devils, I think I pulled something. Feh. Well, I’ll heal it later. If there’s time.”
    He set his feet apart and closed his eyes, bowing his head. His dark hair tumbled forward.
    “What are you doing? And who are you calling a child?”
    “Shush.” When he raised his head again, his eyes glowed a blue so bright, they lit his face like torches. His hands lifted. Blazing power poured from his palms. The magic made Eva’s skin tingle and warm, as if she was standing too close to a roaring fire. Instinctively, she took a step back as the glow engulfed her battered Ford, winding around it in a blinding double helix that grew brighter and brighter. She smelled ozone and heating metal, heard a grinding pop and the tinkle of glass.
    Smoke let his hands fall in an abrupt gesture, and the blinding glare faded.
    “Hot damn,” Eva muttered when she could see again.
    The car sat on all four wheels, looking as if it had just rolled off the showroom floor, its chrome glittering in the moonlight. Not so much as a ding marred its paint job.
    Awed, she walked the

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