Cast into Darkness (Kate Hamilton) by Janet Tait

Author:Janet Tait
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2014-04-11T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

THE LATE-AFTERNOON SUN shone through Kate’s bedroom window, and for the first time in days she had a real break. Pulling on her favorite jeans and a white poet’s shirt, she threw her training clothes into the laundry basket. Time to find out how Brian really died. She stuffed Brian’s journal and Grandfather’s watch into her pocket and tossed her keys, with Kris’s conch-shell fob hanging from the chain, in her purse.

And she knew just the person to help her: Dylan Pearce. Maybe he’d found something out about the stone by now—something he’d be willing to share. She’d texted him and arranged to meet at a little café in Paumanok. Except for her time out with Kris the other night, she’d been grounded on the estate ever since Brian’s death. Stir crazy didn’t even begin to describe how she felt.

She rummaged through the closet, pulling out a pair of white flats, then tossing them back on the floor. Surely a brief trip into Paumanok wouldn’t be dangerous. Dad pretty much owned the place. She should tell Victor about her trip but…

Shoes, shoes, what to pick…the red sandals. Perfect.

Better to ask for forgiveness than permission. No reason to give Victor the chance to exercise his apparent veto power over her life.

But when she found Dylan standing by her car, one look at his face shot her plans to hell. Tension shone through his tight eyes, his scrunched-up lips, the way he straightened his glasses with a firm push on the wire bridge.

“It isn’t safe for you to go into town,” he said. “Victor mentioned the attack against you. He said there’s a security lockdown.”

Damn Victor’s paranoia. “We’ll be safe enough in Paumanok. No one would do anything there.”

“Perhaps not, but rules are rules.”

She stopped, all the desperation of days spent grounded shining from her face. “Please. Anywhere but here.”

His eyes softened, and he nodded. “We can talk at the Hamilton offices in DC. The security grid will protect us there.”

“But won’t my dad see us? Or Victor?” She followed him out of the garage, into the kitchen, and down the hall to the outgoing teleport pattern, the marble tile foyer next to the staircase.

“It doesn’t matter if they do. Your uncle gave me an assignment—”

“Investigating the stone?” She grasped Dylan’s arm as he touched a talisman inside his jacket—a silver eagle.

“No, keeping an eye on you.” His tight lips relaxed into a wry smile. “Making sure you socialize with casters, without…”

“Getting into trouble.”

She missed his response as the teleport spell seized them and zipped them off to the big rotunda in the Hamilton headquarters building. Huh. No teleport headache. Well, at least that was one advantage of being a caster.

Kate trailed Dylan out of the rotunda, down a long corridor, and into a small room with wooden tables and chairs. They’d walked all the way to the north end of the building.

“Cafeteria?” She read the sign. “I didn’t know Dad had a cafeteria.”

“I suppose it’s better than interrupting work to get a sandwich.

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