Darkest Powers 01.5 - Divided by Kelley Armstrong

Author:Kelley Armstrong [Armstrong, Kelley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-04-26T00:45:31+00:00

Five

We had two ways to find our father: natural and supernatural. Natural meant hunting for him the way anyone else would—by computer. Supernatural meant using a spell Dad taught Simon.

So if Simon had this magical spell, why hadn’t he used it when our dad first went missing, before we got locked up in Lyle House? He’d tried. It hadn’t worked. At the time, that hadn’t surprised me. Even Dad had trouble with the spell.

After a few months in Lyle House, that excuse had faded, overtaken by another one—that for it to work, both people needed to be in relatively close proximity. It hadn’t worked while we were at home and in Albany because Dad hadn’t been there. So why did we think Dad might be in Buffalo? First, if he’d been kidnapped by his old employers—the people we’d been running from—they were based in Buffalo, so they’d bring him here. Second, if Dad had been taken by someone else and gotten free, he might have realized we’d be brought back to Buffalo and come here looking for us.

Was either of these a perfect explanation? Hell, no. They weren’t even all that plausible. But when you’ve spent months locked up, having no idea what happened to your father, you start grasping at straws. You just don’t realize it until you’re outside those walls and faced with the cold reality that you really don’t have a clue what you’re doing.

My plan was to travel from library to library. While Simon cast his spell outside, I’d search on the computer inside. Changing locations helped Simon. It helped me, too. There’s a limit to how long you can use a library computer. With some people they don’t notice if you’ve been there a while. With me, they do. I’m six feet tall, with hair that always looks like it needs washing and skin that looks like it needs pro-acne cream. Librarians are usually quick to tell me to move along, probably shutting down the computer afterward to check the history list for porn sites and bomb recipes.

So we spent all day moving around, casting and searching. I’d promised Simon I’d look for Chloe, too, and I did. It just wasn’t as easy as it was with my dad, where I could search on his aliases. With Chloe, I was hunting for either her home address or her aunt’s. I couldn’t get one for Dr. Fellows, but with some detective work, I figured out a way to track down Chloe’s.

I knew her mother was dead. Simon said it had been a hit-and-run when Chloe was five or six. Combine that with knowing her mom’s maiden name—Fellows—and it was easy to pull up the news of her death. I only needed her dad’s first name, and that was right there, along with his company. I knew I should probably stop reading there. Obviously she hadn’t minded telling Simon about the accident, so she’d tell me too, if I asked. Or so I reasoned. It justified finishing the article.

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