Creatus Animus by Carmen DeSousa

Author:Carmen DeSousa [DeSousa, Carmen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781945143915
Publisher: Written Musings
Published: 2016-10-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

As soon as the door shut, Aideen whirled on the irritatingly pompous man … rather, creatus. Her family had never talked about what they were. They knew, and that was all that was ever said. Until Tag had shown up, and then her mother had been murdered, that is. Of course, she hadn’t wanted to hear her father then. She just wanted to kill whoever was responsible.

“What kind of animal are you?” she screamed. “Detective O’Brian asks for your help, and you snarl at him, threaten him —”

“Is your Mustang here?” the man — the creatus scum — interrupted her.

“My Mustang … How did you know I have a Mustang?”

He smiled, and she wanted to smack the smirk right off his face. “Aren’t you able to read minds too?”

She rolled her eyes. “Creatus can’t read minds.”

“Ah-ha, but you do know what a creatus is.” Mike pointed through the window. “Does he?”

Aideen simply nodded. She hadn’t meant to say that. Her entire life she’d kept her secret. The only person she’d ever been able to talk to, the only person who’d ever understood her, was her brother. She wasn’t accustomed to others knowing.

“Where’s your car?” Michael repeated.

“It’s back at the scene. It was blocked in, so I just walked.”

Michael scanned the area, then nudged her by the elbow toward a bench.

Aideen walked ahead of him, then plopped down on the far side of the concrete bench, pulling one leg up so he wouldn’t sit next to her.

Michael sat down. “You said someone killed your family?”

Aideen sucked in a breath, then released it. “Yeah. Tag Beaumont, the same man your family’s looking for.”

“How did you know about the trial?”

This time Aideen flashed him a cocky grin. “I didn’t, but I’ve been watching your family. My father told us what the seal represented when we saw the coverage on the news, and then Tag Beaumont showed up at our house a few months ago. I overheard my father tell Tag to inform Ashton that he’d never join them, so I started researching the police files on the seal and your family. Now my mother’s dead. My father’s dead. And someone ripped out the neck of the nurse I hired to take care of my brother and shot my brother.”

“Never join them?” Michael shook his head, then his eyes darted to hers. “Wait! Tag Beaumont shot your brother?”

Aideen rubbed her eyes and reiterated to Michael Ashton everything that had happened in the last few months, including contacting Detective O’Brian about the “seal” murders, her mother’s drowning, her father’s heart attack, and her brother’s car accident and subsequent coma.

She didn’t know why, but as pigheaded as Michael had acted inside the restaurant, she trusted him. Maybe it was his round, kind-looking face, or his disarming smile, the same smile he’d flashed her at the trial earlier. Whatever it was, she felt they needed each other.

“Why would Tag shoot your brother?” Michael asked again.

After all she’d told him, that was the only question he had? “I don’t know.

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