A Queen To Come by Frances Ellen

Author:Frances Ellen [Ellen, Frances]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wolfkin BV
Published: 2021-05-16T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

It was quite an adjustment from the luxury home in Perth, Australia, to the jungles of Indonesia. Sophie blinked, but saw nothing in the darkness. She reached for her torch and turned it on.

They were on the very outskirts of Makassar; she knew that much. She remembered being told about the Jasman family a few years back. Amisha and Taman Jasman had two children: Citra and Banyu. There was quite an age difference between them, Sophie seemed to remember. Amisha had found out about her second pregnancy after her husband had died. Sophie couldn’t recall what had killed him.

Sophie angled her torch towards the house in front of her and started walking towards it. It was more a cottage than a house. It was made entirely of bamboo. The windows were open; they contained no glass, so the Disciples wouldn’t have had to put in much effort to break in.

There were no other houses in sight. The cottage was completely surrounded by the jungle, with a single path leading up to the front door. Sophie guessed the nearest home would be at least a mile away.

It was hot and sticky here, even though the sun had set hours ago. Beside Sophie, Sky slapped himself on his neck and swore. Tiny insects were flying around them, attacking them at will. Sophie attempted to bat them away as she, Sky and Lian hurried up the stone steps that led up to the front door.

Sophie tried to push it open, and found that it was unlocked.

“That is not safe,” Lian murmured.

“There are easier ways in than through the door,” Sophie said as they stepped inside. She shone her torch to her left, illuminating the open space in between the bamboo frame where they would’ve expected glass windows to be.

“They really should’ve put in more effort to secure the house,” Lian said.

Sophie looked around the silent space. “Amisha hasn’t had anything to do with the Council for almost ten years. Disciples don’t go rogue anymore to kill random Affinites. She thought she was safe.”

“Well, she certainly wasn’t,” Sky said. He had taken off in a different direction to Sophie and Lian. The bamboo house was an oval shape. In the middle of the space in front of them was a staircase, which probably led up to the bedrooms. Lian and Sophie had gone to the left side of the staircase, finding three bamboo chairs around a small bamboo table. Small red cushions were still on the chairs, untouched. Sophie allowed herself the time to look at the two picture frames that were standing on the low table. In the left-hand frame was a photograph of the Jasman family after Taman’s death. There were three people in the photograph: a girl of about fifteen years old with dark brown hair was standing next to a young boy about the age of eight. His dark hair was cut very short. And Amisha Jasman, their mother with long straight hair as black as night, was standing above them, her arms draped around her children’s shoulders.

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