Bone Coven (Winter Wayne Book 2) by D.N. Hoxa

Author:D.N. Hoxa [Hoxa, D.N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: D.N. Hoxa
Published: 2018-01-11T23:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

As soon as I saw the black smoke, I knew something was wrong. My heart hammered in my chest. When I turned the corner, my whole body froze.

Bender’s house was devoured in bright orange flames.

“What the hell?”

I looked at Bender to make sure I wasn’t imagining it, but the look on his pale face said I wasn’t. It was real. His house was being burned down. I stopped the car in the middle of the street and got out. The tips of my ears were on fire as the guilt began to grow into a monster inside my chest. This was my fault. I had no idea how, but it was.

A firetruck was parked right in front of the house, and three men were holding up the hose to try and put the fire out. People, both humans and witches, had gathered around to see the show. The heat coming off the house made me realize that this wasn’t a normal fire. It was magic fueled, and it wasn’t going to go out until every last bit of the house was destroyed.

Bender was right behind me, but I didn’t dare look at him. What the hell was I supposed to say to him now?

“They’re gone,” he whispered.

“What?”

“The bodies,” he said. “The vampire bodies are gone.”

So that’s how this was my fault. I rose to the tips of my toes to get a better view, and he was right. No dead bodies in front of the porch. Those fucking vampires had done this, and they’d done it because of me. Squeezing my eyes shut, I tried not to think about my office. If they did this to Bender’s house just because they’d seen me here, why wouldn’t they burn down my office, too?

“I’m so sorry,” I said to Bender though I still couldn’t meet his eyes.

“Don’t be. You didn’t start the fire,” he said, but his heart wasn’t in it.

“But they did this because of me.” And I’d thought I was so badass to tell them to stop coming after me. Naive little fool.

“Do you know who they are?” Bender asked through gritted teeth.

“Not right now, but I will find out soon,” I said as James’s face came in front of my eyes. That little rat had told on me, and he was going to pay for it. Better yet, he was going to wish I’d let those vampires kill him that night in the alley.

“We should leave,” he said with a tired sigh.

“But your things…”

Nothing was going to make it out of that fire unharmed. Nothing at all.

“All those documents. The folders, the reports.”

The guilt fueled my anger, and before I knew it, my beads buzzed around my fingers and my hand was itching for the handle of my gun.

“I’ve got them all stored right here,” Bender said, and I imagined he touched his temple because I was still too embarrassed to look at him. “Come on. The ECU should be here any minute now.”

“They’re going to know the fire is enhanced.

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