01 Serial Killer (FBI Paranormal Casefiles) by Sabine A. Reed

Author:Sabine A. Reed [A. Reed, Sabine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-03T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

I would never be able to forgive myself.

Never, ever.

“Stop blaming yourself,” ordered Augusta.

It was perhaps the first time in my life that I found myself wringing my hands. Females in distress did that, and that wasn’t me. That word didn’t exist in my vocabulary. But right now I was at a loss. Mark was in danger. Perhaps he was dead already.

“I shouldn’t have send him there.” My voice was hollow, replete with despair. If I could wound back the clock, I would. But despite all the magic at my disposal, I couldn’t turn back time. “If I didn’t force him, he would be safe right now.”

Augusta sighed. “Cleo, you need to…”

Aaron spun me around. Putting his hands on my shoulders, he stared into my eyes. “If you want him alive, do something.” His voice was cold, hard. “Don’t just stand here and blame yourself. That’s not going to help anyone.”

It was as if someone poured cold water on me. My mouth opened and closed. “Jeremy, status please.”

Oh, how I hated the man. But he was right.

Springing into action was the only available choice.

I wanted Mark back in one piece, and I would do everything possible to make sure that happened.

“Glad that got sorted out,” muttered Augusta as she took a seat next to Jeremy. Even she appeared surprised at the way Aaron handled this situation, the way he handled me. I didn’t know him that well but he damned sure knew which buttons to push in order to galvanize me towards action. “Where were we?”

“The security footage shows him sitting in the car one minute and the next…poof, he is gone.”

“Magic,” said Augusta.

“Can’t be.” I eliminated that option. “Mark isn’t a spiritist, and only a true spiritist can travel from one place to another by walking through the land of the dead. And there is no spell powerful enough to open a portal without showing some activity in that area. We would have seen something on the screen that would have indicated the presence or use of magic.”

“Then what is it?”

Jeremy rewound the tape we’d acquired from the CCTV cameras located near Smith’s house. We watched it again. It made no sense. One second there, the other gone.

It wasn’t possible unless there was magic involved.

And that just couldn’t be.

“Give me a copy,” said Aaron. “I’ll send it to my people. See if they can find anything unusual.”

Ordinarily, I wouldn’t have allowed it. He wasn’t part of our team. But hell, we were short of one man, and I didn’t want that man to end up dead, so if I could make a deal with the devil to bring him back, I would do so. Jeremy glanced at me but when I nodded, he handed Aaron a USB.

“Where is his car?” said Augusta.

“It’s back in the garage. I drove it back home.”

When I rushed to the spot next to Smith’s house, the car just stood there, empty and mocking us. We failed to protect one of our own.

I failed to protect one of our own.

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