Ascension: Nate Temple Series Book 13 by Shayne Silvers

Author:Shayne Silvers [Silvers, Shayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Argento Publishing
Published: 2019-09-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

I had told War and Alucard that I wanted to clear my head and get some fresh air, leaving them to explore the inside of the mausoleum for themselves. I’d tried calling Niko to apologize for not answering my phone and to thank her for trying to warn me about the witches.

But my call had gone straight to voicemail. I shot her a text instead, hoping she’d see it whenever she turned her phone back on.

I had wanted to lay low for a while before returning home or parting ways with my crew to get some rest. Because I didn’t want to lead any other witches back to Chateau Falco if there had actually been more than the four we killed. And with the FBI coming to my mansion in the next few hours, I couldn’t very well walk through the front door.

Regardless, I felt surprisingly energetic, bolstered by the extra sleep I’d gotten the day before. If I tried to go to sleep right now, I’d probably just stare up at the ceiling for a few hours and have a stagnation-induced panic attack.

It had been a last-second decision to come here, though. With the FBI so interested in speaking to me, I also hadn’t wanted to risk going to my bookstore, Plato’s Cave, assuming that it was likely under surveillance. Also, Othello and Death were shacking up there since they’d essentially moved into my old loft above the store.

Hello, plan B—boys sleepover in a cemetery. The Temple Mausoleum was as safe as a castle, and it was highly unlikely that any of my enemies would think to search for me in a cemetery. I was essentially hiding in the place where my enemies wanted to ultimately send me.

Heh. How genius was that?

But I couldn’t deny that I also had another reason for wanting to come here. Starlight’s comments about Elders had gotten under my skin, even though he’d admitted to being stoned when he’d said them. Because the tree at Chateau Falco was a Gateway to the Elders’ realm and it hadn’t stopped bleeding for weeks, which seemed like a bad omen of epic proportions. And suddenly Yggdrasil had a matching owie—only with blue blood.

So, what were the Elders up to, and what did it have to do with Yggdrasil?

Unfortunately, I couldn’t place my finger on exactly what it was that had bothered me about Starlight’s cryptic comments. They had been so abstract and vague. Still, the fact that he’d chosen to say them at all made me think that time was of the essence.

Which was why I’d come outside for fresh air—to think.

In my opinion, thinking often required drinking, and a particularly fine libation was my favorite lubrication for stubborn frontal lobe rejuvenation.

Braining was a demanding science, not for the faint of liver.

So I had opened a tiny Gateway back to my office in Chateau Falco—large enough to reach through and grab a bottle of Macallan that I remembered placing on my bookshelf.

As I took a healthy

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