a short GHOST IN THE PACT excerpt

We haven’t had any excerpts from GHOST IN THE PACT yet, so let’s fix that!

“What are you thinking?” said Caina.

He blinked at her. “You don’t know?”

She smiled a little. “I’m not the one with water sorcery.”

“That lets me sense emotions,” said Kylon. “Not read minds. You’re the one who can read minds.”

She grinned, as she often did when he teased her. “I cannot read minds.”

“You can,” said Kylon. “You already know what I’m thinking. You’ll say something like ‘by the angle of your frown and the kind of dust on your boots, I deduce that you just came from the Cyrican Bazaar, and therefore ate sausage rolls for breakfast, and…’”

“I do not,” said Caina, “talk like that.”

He stared at her.

“Sometimes,” she conceded.

-JM