(eng) Leanna Renee Hieber - Strangely Beautiful 02 by The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker

Author:The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker [Parker, The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Having cleaned and organized her office with meticulous obsession, Rebecca sat stiffly pressed against the back of her chair. The wool of her snug collar grazed her throat as she swallowed. How should she tell Alexi what her gift had proffered? While information should flow freely between leader and second, would Alexi not be maddened more by a vague threat than by confronting the truth in its time? Would she be granted enough foresight to keep everyone safe? Or was she stalling, perhaps out of fear, or guilt…or out of some deeper, secret, terrible thought that if she just let things go Percy would simply end up out of the equation?

She shook her head in defiance, demanding better of herself. “No. I will fight for the girl. Not against her.” But could she ever trust herself in matters concerning the woman Alexi Rychman loved? Worse: if she told him, wouldn’t he secretly assume her to be the betrayer?

Just then, the man in question burst through her door and slammed it angrily behind him. “Beatrice says Percy will have to go back into the spirit world, where none of us dare go, to bring about the war to end it all.”

Rebecca furrowed her brow. “Percy has to go back? But she just got here.”

“Precisely my point. Why did we fight so hard for Prophecy if we’re sending her right back into the abyss? I won’t let her go.”

“So the doors—”

“The dark portals that open around her are beckoning her to walk right in, to pick up where she left off—I don’t know exactly,” he growled. “The new doors in this building have something to do with the final battle. After they are joined, Athens will be the field of conflict between the mortal and spirit worlds.”

“But we don’t want the worlds joined, we’ve spent our lives trying to keep them separate!” Rebecca cried.

“I know,” Alexi spat, having a friend in frustration fueling his ire. “Spirits say things to Percy I can’t hear, the ramifications of which I don’t understand, and I feel like a pawn in some farce.”

“We’ve enough doors for one,” Rebecca agreed. “I just noticed a new one down the humanities hall.”

“We need a meeting. I’m not going to let one ghost determine our future after decades of work.” He flung wide the door and nearly crashed into Percy, hesitating outside, her hand raised to knock.

She had heard his angry voice from within and now flinched as he glowered down at her. Seeing it was her, his gaze softened slightly. He hung in the doorway. “Have a nice tête-à-tête?” he asked.

Percy sighed, staring at him with the helplessness she felt. “I’ve no more of an idea what to think than you.”

Alexi said nothing and remained staring down at her. Behind him, Percy glimpsed Rebecca watching impassively from her desk. She said, “I…thought maybe Miss Thompson would like a cup of tea. And you, of course. Would you like a cup of tea?”

“No thank you,” her husband said, storming into the hallway and leaving the door open behind him.

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