2 Witch and Famous by Eve Paludan & Stuart Sharp

Author:Eve Paludan & Stuart Sharp [Paludan, Eve & Sharp, Stuart]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: J.R. Rain Press
Published: 2013-06-18T04:00:00+00:00

“You lied to me,” I repeated to Siobhan. “The one time it really mattered, and you lied to me. You risked my life and Niall’s life. You let me think he was a killer.”

I didn’t know what I was going to do in that moment. I could feel all the emotion in the room. I could always feel it, of course, but now it jumped and thrummed through me, as tight as a guitar string. All the fear. All the anger. All the resentment. I could feel the flickers of something more between Fergie and Marie, even while Fergie knelt there, struggling not to change.

I could feel Siobhan’s guilt eating at her belly. I could feel how scared she was of me and how much she wished that she had done the right thing earlier. Right then, I wanted to eat all of it. Days of running around the city full of anxiety and suspicion had left me starving. Thinking Niall was a murderer and now this had left me on a knife-edge. In that moment, a part of me wanted to swallow all of the emotion in the room and be done with it.

“Please don’t be angry,” Siobhan begged. “I couldn’t tell you. I couldn’t. They would have hurt Dougie.”

“Dougie? What does this have to do with Dougie?” I was furious that she had held back information from me. Furious enough that I didn’t want to hold back anymore. Siobhan had used up her chances.

She cried out in fear and that small sound stopped me, just for a moment. I wasn’t even sure why it should, when the rest hadn’t. Somehow though, it was enough to make me take a look around. Fergie was down on his knees, struggling for control. Siobhan shrank away from me as far as my grip would let her, terrified that I was going to kill her for lying. Marie was caught between the need to run from me and the need to go to Fergie. What was I doing? Why was I doing this to people I really cared about?

I knew why. Niall. The hurt of losing him. I wasn’t on a knife’s edge. I had stepped over it, and now I had to find a way to step back. I fought for control. I took the part of me that ached to swallow the emotions around me and I made it swallow my own anger. My own grief at what I’d done. I made myself step back from the edge, inch by hard fought inch.

I let go of Siobhan, turning to Fergie and pumping some of the last of my waning stock of energy into calming him down. Into giving him the kind of control that I barely had. Then I looked back to my goblin friend.

“Those bruises on your face the other day…”

Siobhan swallowed. “They were from the others, not from Dougie. They hit me when I told them that you’d been nice to me and that I couldn’t do this. When I said that I wouldn’t trick you.

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