Darkest Caress by Cross Kaylea

Author:Cross, Kaylea [Cross, Kaylea]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises
Published: 2012-04-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

What the hell?

Rick swore and pulled the Pathfinder onto the shoulder to let the light traffic pass by him. He glared at the brass address numbers on the eight-foot red brick wall surrounding the property then threw the truck into reverse. The engine protested his heavy foot with a loud whine as he shot backward. The wall ended abruptly next to one made of ornate wrought iron. But the address on that one was just as baffling. How the hell could an entire house be missing? He was looking at the damn address on the listing, and it should have been between the other two.

Whipping out his phone, he dialed the last person on earth he wanted to talk to. He didn’t much care if he woke the bastard up, either.

“Diga,” the elderly voice answered on the second ring.

Apparently the OL was an early riser. But of course he would be, Rick reasoned. Only way he could maximize the number of miserable souls he preyed on. “I can’t find the damn house.” His only leverage right now was that he hadn’t given the property listings to the OL. Only he and the DA contact from the bar knew which properties he was searching.

“Excuse me?”

Rick gritted his teeth. “I found the house next to it and the one on the other side, but not the one we’re looking for. There’s nothing here. It’s like it doesn’t exist.”

“They’ve masked it.”

He frowned at the excitement in the man’s voice. “What?”

“The Coven Leader, and any followers with him. They’ve put a masking spell on the property to shield it.” His voice was ripe with conviction. “Can you see an opening between the other two properties? A path or a break in the fence?”

“No, there’s nothing.” He wasn’t a fucking idiot.

“It’s there. Find it.”

Knowing it would piss him off, Rick hung up on him. He tossed the phone onto the passenger seat and got out, slamming the door shut. He pulled a pen and paper out of his jacket pocket, pretended to write notes as he examined the fence line so he wouldn’t look overly suspicious.

The brick wall was solid under his hands, even where it met the cold wrought iron of the next fence. If the Empowered had put a spell on their digs to conceal them, they’d done a damn good job of it. For real, it looked like the place didn’t exist. How had they managed it? Made him wonder again what he was up against.

He tried for the better part of an hour to find the chink in the defenses, even hiking down the bank to check the ocean-view side, but at last gave up and stalked back to the truck. He supposed he could hang around for a while in case anyone came in or out through some sort of magical gap in the wall.

Screw that. He had better things to do.

He threw the vehicle into drive and pulled onto the road, the tires kicking up bits of gravel as he did.

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