Creepy Hollow 7 by Rachel Morgan

Author:Rachel Morgan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2017-04-10T22:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

“Whoa, hey, calm down.” Dash blinks, confused. “I’m on your side. How have you not figured that out yet?”

“It’s okay, Emerson,” Violet says, running up to me. “He’s telling the truth. He’s on our side.”

“How can he possibly be on our side?” Anger rushes hotly through my veins, escaping in violent sparks that shoot away from me and aim straight for Dash’s face.

“Ow!” He ducks and bats the magic away with both hands. “What the heck, Em?”

“You tried to imprison me! And then you pushed me off the edge of a cliff!”

“Jeez, Em, I’m the only reason you got away from the Guild. You never would have escaped without my help.” He straightens as my magic stops attacking him. “You don’t think guardians are normally that clumsy, do you? And the cliff …” He shrugs, looking a little sheepish. “Well, we ran out of time, so I had to improvise. But I knew Ryn and Vi were out there. I knew someone would catch you.”

“You knew someone would catch me?” I repeat in disbelief. “I almost died!”

“But you didn’t. You’re fine. And now you’re safe, which was the plan from the very beginning.”

“What plan?”

“You know, to get you here to the Griffin rebels.”

“Wait.” I blink and hold my hands up. “You knew all along that I had a Griffin Ability, and you didn’t say anything to me?”

Dash’s eyes flick toward Violet before returning to me. “Well, we weren’t certain. That’s why I kept trying to get you to tell me exactly what happened that night at the party, but you weren’t interested in talking about it.”

“Are you kidding? If it was so important—if having a Griffin Ability is so dangerous—you could have forced the information out of me. Told me, ‘Em, this isn’t normal magic. You could be in danger because of it. You have to tell me what happened, for your own safety.’” I throw my hands up in complete exasperation. “Did you consider that option, Dash?”

He folds his arms over his chest, his expression growing stormier by the second. “Perhaps you don’t clearly remember the occasion on which you completely freaked out and ran away from Chevalier House, but you weren’t exactly in the mood to be forced into anything. And forgive me, but I kinda thought you had enough to deal with at that moment, having just found out about, you know, everything else. I thought I was being kind not dumping another horrible revelation on your shoulders. And I figured Azzy would get the truth out of you soon enough—which she had already done, actually. I didn’t know it, but she’d already contacted Ryn by the time I got you back to Chevalier House. We just didn’t manage to get you safely away before you revealed to everyone what you can do.”

“Hang on. Azzy’s in on this whole thing? That’s what the two of you were whispering about last night?”

“You heard that?”

“Yes, Prof Azzy’s on our side too,” Violet says.

“Then why the hell did Paul call the Guild to come get me?”

“Because Azzy is the only one who’s in on this,” she explains.

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