Cursed by Melissa Michelle Green

Author:Melissa Michelle Green [Green, Melissa Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781734006803
Publisher: VillaVerde, LLC
Published: 2019-09-13T16:00:00+00:00

13

VAL WATCHED as Jami pulled in a deep breath, she seemed to be fortifying herself. Damned if he was having a hard time figuring her out, one minute she was defiant and in his face, and the other she seemed afraid to meet his eyes.

“Well, as you can see here, I have a lot of the same information that you have, at least it sounds like it. Crazy Spanish princess, jealous of her big sister, cursed a chalice, a dagger, and a pendant to get rid of her so she could marry prince of France instead and take over the Spanish throne.

“There was a huge gap in the information that we had, between the prince stealing the pendant and sending it somewhere, and now. The other two items, the chalice and the dagger,” she rested her hand on the stack of papers to her left, “were actually turning up in newspaper articles and things like that, weird stories about the items being somehow involved in people getting hurt or dying. Like you said, believing that the curse is real would be crazy, after what we’ve learned, I have to tell you—some very smart people are convinced.”

“And you? What do you think?”

Jami paused. “I don’t want to believe, it feels, I don’t know…” She turned away from him, aimed the rest of her sentence the sea. “Almost like it makes other things possible, opens too many doors.”

“I get that. And who is this ‘we’ you referred to?”

Jami frowned. “My sister and a few others have most of the research right now. My dad was actually looking for the dagger when he was killed in a car accident. Only now—” she pushed away from the table, getting agitated and feeling as though she needed to pace “—now it looks like he was killed for his research on the dagger. Just in the last two weeks my sister and a friend of mine have almost died. She actually ended up finding the dagger but had to give it up to save Hart.”

She waved away his curious look at this time. “I’ll explain all the people in the places later, right now what’s important is that a lot of people I consider really smart believe in this curse. And some wacko out there who seems to have unlimited resources also believes in, and is willing to kill to get all three artefacts. So, now he has the dagger and the chalice—”

“Wait, he has the chalice too?”

“Yes, that’s a whole separate story, but a friend of the family is an FBI agent and another agent he knows recently went through a whole situation of her own with the chalice in Mexico.”

“So, what does this crazy guy want these things for, anyway? Is he trying to sell them?”

Jami was still pacing, and the towel around her waist loosened. Absentmindedly, she adjusted it, never slowing down.

As crazy as all the stuff was that she was saying, he found himself staring at the corner of the towel that she had tucked into the portion that was wrapped around her waist.

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