Anomaly (Causal Enchantment) by K.A. Tucker

Author:K.A. Tucker [Tucker, K.A.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2014-03-04T00:00:00+00:00

“What?” Mortimer and I exploded at the same time.

“She called and said they’d be here soon. Then her phone cut off. That’s all I know.”

“Who are they? She and Max?” I would skin that dog alive for allowing her out of the mine.

“She didn’t say.”

“How far away is she? Does she know about the rendezvous point?” My eyes widened with panic as I drew a mental map of the airports and the likely routes for Evangeline to take. Was she at risk now? The streets were crawling with fledglings and military. “Which way is she coming from?”

Lilly stared blankly at me.

“What about the others? Who’s watching over them?” Mortimer’s dark brown eyes flared with anger. “We’ve left a bunch of fledglings in the care of the wolves?”

“Who cares about them right now!” I yelled. “They’re safe!”

“Might I remind you that one of them is your sister?” Mortimer’s voice dropped a few octaves, each word clear and crisp. I knew that tone. It meant he was considering putting my head through a wall. Right now, I felt like saving him the effort and doing it myself.

“I’m going back,” he announced.

I grabbed onto his powerful forearm. “No, not yet. Please.” I didn’t bother trying to hide the pleading in my voice. I would drop to my knees and beg if I had to. These decisions were weighing too heavily on my shoulders as it was. We’d had more than our share of differences in the past but Mortimer’s presence and his opinions had helped significantly these past few weeks.

“Veronique is alone!” He jerked at his arm but I wouldn’t let go.

“Still feeding like a feral animal, I’m sure,” I assured him.

“She’ll be angry when she finds out she was left alone there.”

“Not as angry as she’ll be when she finds out you abandoned me to this mess to sit and watch her in that state.” I honestly didn’t know if that was true, but I knew it would stay his urge. Upsetting Veronique was the one thing Mortimer had never been able to handle.

His tension dissipated. “No longer than sunrise.”

Sunrise. What would the city look like? How far would the fledglings have scattered? How much would the world have seen by then? Too much to hide the truth, ever? If we waited until sunrise and could still not find Amelie, then what? Had we waited for nothing and given doom a stronger foothold on this world? These questions pounded down on me in quick succession, all pointing in the direction of one answer.

We couldn’t wait. Not for one vampire.

But Evangeline …

Mage’s heavy glare weighed on me. She knew as well as I did that my weakness was that girl.

I didn’t know what to do. “It seems like everything we’ve done has only made things worse. Now we’ve lost one, we’re missing two, three more are at risk …” I wrapped my arms tight around my chest.

“There is much more at risk than three,” Mage reminded me. I knew what she’d do. She wouldn’t hesitate for a second.

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