1 Witchy Business by Eve Paludan & Stuart Sharp

Author:Eve Paludan & Stuart Sharp [Paludan, Eve & Sharp, Stuart]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2013-04-04T04:00:00+00:00

“That’s something,” Rebecca said with a sigh, “but if he fed from you when all of that was running through you…you’d be like a battery, Elle. It might even be what he wants. He feeds you encouragement and what seems like the bloom of love and you give him back easy access to all the emotion he could want.”

I swallowed hard. That didn’t sound good. Even so, I couldn’t quite believe it of Niall. Not yet. Not when it was the first time I’d met anyone who seemed the same as me. “He didn’t feel like what you’re describing,” I insisted. “He felt like an enchanter.”

“He was playing you,” Evert said. “He got you drunk on emotion so he could do it. He is what he is. If you stay around him, you’ll probably end up dead.”

“But the kiss—”

“Doesn’t matter,” Rebecca insisted. She sighed. “Honestly, Elle, will you just for once listen without wanting to know every last thing?”

“I am an insurance investigator. It’s my job.”

That earned me another sigh. “You really are drunk with him, aren’t you? I should never have let you stay around him. I should have told you to get out of town for the week. It’s what your mother would have wanted.”

“Too late for that,” Evert said, looking ruefully at Rebecca, as if she had crossed some kind of line.

“Too late?” I said.

“We need her,” Evert said, still talking to Rebecca.

“Oh…right,” Rebecca agreed.

“Are you two ever going to tell me what’s going on?” I demanded.

“It’s simple,” Rebecca shot back. “You’re going to help us to kill Niall Sampson.”

I stared at her. She wanted me to help kill him? The man who had just kissed me? The man who had shown me a whole new way to feel things in the middle of that club? The man I had just told them I wouldn’t let them hurt?

“No, I can’t. I won’t.”

“You have to,” Rebecca insisted. “You know what he is now, even if you plan on sticking your head in the sand. We’ve told you the harm he could do, to you and to the coven. If we don’t stop him, then it looks like he’s coming after you and that means he has tapped into the powers of our coven and we can’t allow that. The things that could happen then…if there were another way, we’d take it. It isn’t as though I like seeing you hurt like this.”

“There isn’t another way, Elle,” Evert insisted, looking at me with that deep intensity he had. “It has to be you. He ran at the club when he saw us coming. You don’t have to be the one to kill him. I just need you to get me close. Find me a way in. You should be good at that, with your job. I thought you were one of the best at what you do?”

“The best at insurance investigations,” I insisted. “I’m no mastermind for an assassination, and I never will be.”

“You’ll do well enough,” Evert insisted. “Just get me close.

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