Crimson Cove by Butler Eden

Author:Butler, Eden [Butler, Eden]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2015-12-31T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

When I didn’t think about my surroundings, things became clearer. There were no distractions around me in the night, only the clear sense that ahead I’d find the Elam, that it called and beckoned, like it knew I was close.

The sense of it, the way it drew me in, felt like something I was meant to do. It felt very much like a path I had no choice but to take. But there was a hurdle, three in fact, keeping me from that path. I wanted to hex all of them to clear my way.

“You know,” Ethan began, “For someone who’d been running from this place for ten years, you certainly came back in a hurry.”

“I didn’t run.”

“That’s not the way I remember it.” Ethan sounded smug, but in my brief experience with him, that was pretty typical.

“The way you remember it?” There was no need for me to stop walking, no reason to slow my pace. He’d follow. He’d have to if he wanted to annoy me. “You mean the way you heard it. You were a kid back then, barely thirteen years old. You have no idea…” I quieted when Ethan’s smile went lethal. “Bait all you want, little wizard. I won’t bite.”

“You will.” Ethan looked merely bored, not worried, not scared that he was deep into Grant territory with little protection from the elements or whoever it was that had killed Wyatt. Only an idiot like him would walk around the forest like he was on a stroll and not a mission. “All witches take the bait. It’s in your nature.”

He wanted to play, to lead me straight into a debate that would only annoy me and make my spelling fingers eager to wiggle a hex over his fat mouth. “I’m not here to entertain you. I’m here to finish this job and keep the lines from flooding the Cove.”

Ethan took a quick turn on the edge of the trail and only caught himself from a fall by jumping in front of me on the trail. “And saving your father’s business in the process?”

Curiosity is a hell of a thing. It can make you question motivations, tempt you to forget your purpose. Ethan likely knew that and anyone who’d heard even the vaguest thing about my return knew it had everything to do with my father’s business and the mess Ronan had made. Ethan was a dunderheaded jackass, meddlesome and catty, but he did likely know more about what had led my father’s business into the ground than I did. “Know something you’d like to share?”

“Ronan is pathetic.” That he admitted freely, but Ethan wasn’t coy about the sideways look he gave me or the condescending smile that held no humor. “He’s a useless piece of garbage.”

“And that makes my name dirt now, too?” The trail twisted this way and that, keeping us single file as it narrowed, but I kept ahead, not bothering to see what reaction the annoying wizard offered. “If we are judging

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