A Soul of Light: Unlocked Book 2 by Rebecca Maeve Hartwell

Author:Rebecca Maeve Hartwell [Hartwell, Rebecca Maeve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-06-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

A gentle ripple of breeze touched Angie’s cheek as she walked beside Daniel down the short corridor of sandstone pillars, glimpsing the museum courtyard through the gaps in the waving, gossamer white curtains that had been added for a formal function later that evening. Locus Proxima was as empty, still, and silent as ever, each step the two of them took in unison echoing.

Shan appeared around the corner ahead, and stopped dead, a rapid progression of easily-read shock, anger, fear, and wariness crossing her face. Angie and Daniel stopped too, waiting.

“Dawn said I was meeting her here, not you too.” Shan crept forward, and Angie stepped aside to the wall as Daniel planted himself. He was going to force Shan to approach him. Angie was to play witness, nothing more.

“She lied,” Daniel replied. “The conference is over, our job there is done, so it’s time for the truth.”

Shan stopped a healthy distance away, shooting Angie an unreadable look. “Why?”

“You know why.”

Shan’s brow furrowed as her mouth stretched wide. “Afraid I don’t know what you mean. It certainly can’t be about that recent, tragic attempt on your life.” Shan sneered.

Angie felt herself heat. The other woman was holding Daniel’s gaze, unblinking, but the tight tendons in her neck and the shift of one shoulder showed Angie the lie.

Shan’s mouth twisted to one side. “There’s no scrap of proof who tried to drown you.”

“You have no alibi for those moments,” Daniel replied coolly. “And motive, means, and opportunity have been enough for the Courts to render judgment in the past.”

Angie saw Shan pale a shade, and hid her smile of satisfaction. Shan was quiet, frowning with murderous intent at Daniel.

Daniel smiled back and played the card Angie knew he had up his sleeve. “Just because you, a second-rate, learned, gut-instinct Seer—and shielder—couldn’t find proof, doesn’t mean others haven’t. You really should have been more inventive. I knew exactly where to look, and have had nearly a month to do what I do best.”

Shan swallowed, shifting back a step as her baby-blue aura juddered. That was all they needed. “Which is what, changing the narrative to benefit yourself?” Shan snapped defensively. Angie saw ice crystals bloom across the liquid pattern of Shan’s aura. “You, of all people, know that perception and memory can be altered. That’s how you convinced the witnesses at Stonehenge to believe the twisting of what happened. How you framed me for what you and your recruit did.” Shan glanced at Angie, who ignored her.

“You know that,” Daniel said, his aura languid, “and I know that. But it’s not widely known. And who is the Court going to believe—the disgruntled outcast who never disguised her open hatred of me, with good reason to hold a grudge over dead friends she blames me for? Who caused all the havoc the English Court is now dealing with, and whose guilt was confirmed by the attempted scapegoat of yours, as they see it? Who I went out of my way to preserve,

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