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Wicked Lucidity by Mandy M. Roth
WICKED
LUCIDITY
Carnal
Sometimes, the most
diabolical demons are personal.
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Book One:
WICKED LUCIDITY
Mandy M. Roth
When
Karri-Lynn O’Higgins is offered a small slice of normalcy, she goes for it
unbeknownst to her following her destiny. She wasn’t looking for a
relationship and she sure the hell wasn’t looking to fall in love.
Something about Riston Wallace calls to her on a level Karri can’t deny.
He’s everything she wants in a man expect for one thing—he’s a nice guy.
What happened to her wish list? Tall, dark and deadly? He got the tall and
dark part right.
She
soon learns that there’s more to Riston than meets the eye. Much more. In a
world where sanity is as relative as what defines evil, Karri finds herself
being forced to come to terms with her past and her future.
Rating: Contains graphic violence, explicit sex,
and strong language. Not for the faint of heart.
Sometimes, the most diabolical demons are personal.
WICKED LUCIDITY
Mandy M. Roth
Prologue
“Do you hear me, dark angel? You
cannot defeat us all.”
I snickered as I stared up at the
vampire that had me pinned to the hard pavement. He stared down at me with
eyes that weren’t even strong enough to decide between pale yellow and
orange. Neither of which were found in nature but then again, vampires
weren’t exactly run of the mill. Well, unless you lived my life. In my
reality, they were staples.
His rank breath moved over me as he
practically spat in my face. “Have you nothing to offer, dark angel?”
He pushed down harder, using his
forearm to press against my throat. My eyes widened as I stared up at him. I
could feel him trying to force his power, his dark magik into my mind. Had I
been human, it would have worked. He’d have been able to turn my mind with
ease, bend my will to suit him.
For once, I was thankful that I was
anything but human. I let my body go limp, pretending to succumb to the
death he offered. His smugness almost radiated off him. I laid there,
careful to use my own power to mask my life signs.
The vampire laughed, the sound so full
of evil that I had to fight not to cringe. I remained still as he climbed
off me. “Let all know that I have slain the great dark angel! She died at my
hands! She took her last breath before my eyes! She....”
Blah, blah, blah.
I struck out fast, ramming the heel of
my boot into his groin. “She is sick of hearing you babble, asshole.” I
rolled, following him as he backed up cupping himself. Quickly, I delivered
another blow to his mid-section, catching him off guard and sending him
tumbling to the ground.
I got to my feet fast and towered over
him. Grinning, I stared down at him as I put my hand out. My magik rose to
the occasion. “Stake,” I said, conjuring one instantly. I glanced at it and
then the not so smug looking vampire on the ground.
He hissed. “No. You were dead.”
“Technically, you’re dead so do we
even need to get into a debate or do you want me to get this over with?”
“Boss?” Seger, my second in command,
called out from around the other side of the large building. “You back
here?”
The ugly vampire seized the momentary
distraction to sweep my legs out from under me. Never one to take the easy
route, I flipped high into the air, tucked my long legs into my body and
used my power to stop myself. Redirecting my momentum, I flipped back
towards him.
He gasped as I extended my body,
striking him back to the ground. I slammed the stake down, scoring a direct
chest his. A puff of dust surrounded me and I held my breath until it
cleared.
A strong hand fell upon my shoulder.
“Boss? Karri, you okay?”
Glancing down at the partially
shifted, clawed hand, I smiled. “I take it that you guys ran into some more
bad guys.”
Seger chuckled, allowing his bloodied,
lycan claws to slide back under his skin. The light layer of fur there began
to recede quickly, leaving only a human hand in its place. “Yeah, you can
say that. If you add in the dead bodies I see laying around you, I’d say our
count for the night is up to forty-three. That’s a hell of a lot higher than
it should be. Any word from the powers on what’s going on--why the bad guys
seem to be coming in droves?”
The idea of the powers, the men and
women sworn to over see and protect the innocents giving a damn about a
surge of evil in the tiny Midwestern town we had only just arrived in, made
me laugh. We, various teams of four soldiers, dedicated our lives to serving
them, righting wrongs and keeping humans safe from things they could only
dream about. The thanks we got was double-crossed or flat out ignored. “They
don’t care, but I do.”
“I hate to admit it but you were right
to want to warn the team based here, Karri. These demons we fought tonight
aren’t just piss ass nothings. They were strong. Strong enough to take all
four of us to beat.”
“Yeah,” I whispered, looking around at
the carnage. Sighing, I lifted my arms high into the air. “Tell the others
to hold on. I’m about to play clean up.”
Seger grinned and pressed his hand to
his walkie-talkie. “Karri’s plain’ housekeepin’. Watch your asses or you’ll
end up dusted too.”
I rolled my eyes and shook my head as
I let my power ride out and over the dead bodies. A second before I let it
loose, I felt another presence, a familiar one. Gasping, I stared around at
the darkness, trying to locate the source but finding nothing.
“Karri?” Seger asked, pressing up
against me.
“Do you sense that?”
“Sense what?”
I shifted a bit, still feeling a
familiar presence. “Someone I know is close.”
He chuckled. “Not to point out he
obvious, Karri-Lynn but Amber, your best friend lives a few blocks down.”
“I know that. Not her, idiot. Someone
else. Someone powerful.”
“I don’t feel anything, boss. But I
believe you do.” He put his arm around me and pulled me into the warmth of
his body. “Come on, let’s get rid of these bodies before a human wanders in
and finds out that their shiny happy world isn’t so sparkly. And then we
need to get you moved into your new place.”
I looked around at the bodies and
snickered. “Somehow, I thought it would be different here, Seger.”
“Different how?”
I shrugged. “I don’t know. Less
violent.”
He laughed, deep and from the gut.
“Oh, darlin’ you’d be bored to tears if you didn’t get to chop at least one
demons head off a night.”
As sick as that sounded, he had a
point. “Suburbia, here I come.”
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Cover art by Eliza Black
(c) copyright 2005
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