Page 72 of That Mafioso Magic
He sighed. “You’ll have to look in their eyes, putting all of your focus into capturing their attention. Then, push what you want them to do or remember into their thoughts. It’s really very simple. I’ll be disappointed if you can’t accomplish such a simple trick.”
“What else can you all do?” I asked. “What will you be training me on?”
“Teleportation, shadow manipulation, and smoke. I’m sure climbing the wall and vamp speed comes easy to you from your shifter days,” he said.
“Smoke?” I asked, never hearing that term before.
“A well-kept secret we vampires have. We can turn our bodies into the tiniest of molecules that resemble mists or smoke. As a shifter, you know the importance of keeping some abilities close to the vest so your enemies can’t easily defeat you. Because you are my child, I’ll make sure you are well versed in these abilities… that is, if you possess them,” Salino said.
That was news to me indeed. As long as I’d been alive, I never knew vampires could do that. “Thank you for your help.”
“I’ll see you soon,” Salino said, then hung up.
“That’s pretty cool if you end up knowing how to do that,” Shi said.
“I would be unstoppable,” I agreed. As for my plan with Tom, he would take the griezel to his home. And that was where I’d kill the griezel and take his heart. A life for a life.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Ispent another twenty minutes in our new office, going over ideas with Xavier, then we returned to Sage’s home… or was it also my home too? I guess it was. We ate, then got started doing our research. I had to study the location spell carefully from the grimoire. One mistake and it would throw everything off. I wondered how long Sage would be gone. I also wondered what he was doing. Would he be able to get the ingredients off the black market and if not, was he going to kill a griezel and a werewolf? I didn’t doubt that either action had its own element of danger. This was the stuff I couldn’t do, which was why the spell was never revealed to me before. It needed Sage’s essence, his power, to make it present. Just like I needed him to be able to say the spell with me. Our combined power would be the thing that would save Lacey.
There was a knock on the door and Jewel answered it. Whoever it was didn’t enter, instead they gave something to Jewel that was in a black box and left. Jewel closed the door and came over to me. “Sage said this is the Wolf’s Scent. He’s still working on getting the griezel heart,” she said, handing me the box.
“That was fast,” I said, taking the box and opening it. The ash looked white and was in a glass jar. I wondered how much something like this costed Sage, especially to get it so fast. He really didn’t mess around.
“Monica said Sage was able to find a local seller, which is fortunate. Finding a werewolf to ash would have been difficult since we don’t have any in our territory,” Jewel said.
Well, at least we had gotten one of the rare ingredients out of the way. “Thank you,” I said.
Jewel snorted. “Thank Sage. I didn’t pay for it.” She walked away to eat more pizza.
I looked at Xavier and he took a gander into the black box to see what werewolf ash looked like, then put it on the table. “This is whole situation is wild. Almost surreal.”
“Hey, help me get everything set up for the locator spell now that I have all of the ingredients,” I said. It was better for me to switch the conversation away from black market magic items. Besides, I wanted to stay focused on my mission.
“Sure,” Xavier agreed.
“So, do you like the condo?” I asked Xavier as he helped me lay everything out for the spells I wanted to cast. First, I wanted to see if the magic from the bullet was traceable. Then I wanted to find Lacey. I wanted to wait until Sage came back, because as soon as I had her location, I wanted to bounce on it.
“Are you going to get all haughty if I say that I love it?” Xavier asked, then rolled out the map of the country on the dining room table.
I smiled. “No.”
“Fine. Yeah, I love it. Is he going to charge me for it?”
“The way you were pissing him off, he might.”
He rolled his eyes. “I’m still not a hundred percent on board with him and you being together.”
“I know. But I am.”
He sighed. “Do… are you falling for him? Hell, did you fall for him? Do you love him?”
I stopped what I was doing, which was lighting candles, to look up at him again. I didn’t answer right away, because I wanted to think about what I was going to say. I thought about how I felt in Sage’s presence and how I felt when he wasn’t around me. When I was near Sage, I felt safe, protected, and most importantly, loved and cherished. I didn’t doubt his feelings for me. And when he wasn’t around me, like now… I felt a void. Sadness and anticipation to see him again. Could a person fall in love at first sight, or second?
I smiled.
“Oh shit… you are in love with him.”
