Chapter 7Mehnat’s eyes seemed brighter than ever, the irises so intensely blue they looked like neon lamps, the warm tones in her skin more obvious as the storage unit’s lamps began to flicker back into life.
“You could have claimed me,” she said thoughtfully. “You were summoned back into your body. All you had to do was complete the spell.”
Kara shrugged. “You said I’d been buried alive.”
“Yes…?”
She looked at the burned remains of the binding circle and toed some of the ash away with her shoe. “So, I don’t think I want to bury someone else. Binding you—possessing you—that’s what it would have been, wouldn’t it?”
Mehnat dragged her teeth over her lip, and Kara felt the riot of images that had been used to tempt Carl rising in her mind. “I’m sure I would have found some…rewards…”
Kar
