A Wicked Power (The Shadow Sorceress Book 7) by Bilinda Sheehan

Author:Bilinda Sheehan [Sheehan, Bilinda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BS Press
Published: 2019-08-23T16:00:00+00:00

14

Light streamed across my face and I jolted awake. Fumbling across the night stand next to my bed, I searched for my cell phone but came up empty.

“Shit.”

Stumbling out of the bed, I grabbed my jacket from the chair I’d dumped it over the night before and fished the phone out.

The little notification icon blinked accusingly up at me. Fifteen missed calls. And if I didn’t get my ass in gear, I was going to be late for my appointment with Jon.

Flicking through the calls, I felt my heart drop when I discovered that none of them were from Nic. But then maybe in this case, no news was good news.

Several of the calls were from Victoria. Setting the phone down on the counter, I pressed redial and tied my hair up in a high ponytail as I waited for the call to connect.

She answered on the second ring.

“Where the hell have you been?”

“Well hello to you too,” I said, sarcastically.

“The preternatural prison was attacked last night,” she said. “Hundreds are unaccounted for, including your sister.”

I swallowed around the lump in my throat as I thought of Lily lying on my couch.

“Do they know what happened?” I dug my fingernails into the palms of my hands. I hated lying to her. Victoria had been right when she’d said she couldn’t trust me but if I told her, she would try to take Lily in herself and right now, I couldn’t let that happen.

“There was a breach,” she said. “I’ve heard of people trying to break out of prison but never of someone trying to break in.”

I laughed but the sound was fake and hollow to my ears. “That’s weird. Do they know who they broke out of the pit?”

“How did you know about that?” There was no denying the suspicion in Victoria’s voice and I cursed myself inwardly for being so stupid.

“Well it seems the only likely reason they would break in, right? I mean. What else would they want to break into a prison for preternaturals for?”

“I guess,” she said, not sounding entirely convinced. “They haven’t said who or what was broken out but it’s something big. The way they keep dancing around this thing, you’d swear it was Lucifer himself had escaped. When are you getting down here?”

“I’ll be on my way over soon. I’ve got a meeting with Jon.”

“What does that asshole want?”

I started to shrug and then realised Victoria couldn’t see me. “He wants to discuss my future in the Elite.”

“That sounds ominous.”

“You’re telling me. Look, as soon as I’m done with him I’ll swing by your location.” I paused. “Wait, where are you?”

“At one of the smaller malls on the outskirts of the city. It’s the one nearest the prison. By the looks of things here, several preternaturals cleared this place out.”

“Anyone hurt?”

“Three dead guards and a teenager who was closing up for the night. She’s in the hospital. I haven’t heard what condition she’s in but judging by the mess here, I can’t see it being good.

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