Darkness Unveiled by Emerson Knight & McKenzie Hunter

Author:Emerson Knight & McKenzie Hunter
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781946457820
Publisher: Sky Publishing LLC
Published: 2018-02-24T05:00:00+00:00

I found Josh slouched with his legs crossed in a leather club chair in the far corner of the library. At my arrival, he looked up from the large tome in his lap. “How are Joan and Steven?” he asked, concerned, as I leaned against the corner of a bookshelf and crossed my arms.

“They’ll live.”

He frowned at me, debating a snide remark, then shook his head as he closed the book.

“Any luck?” I asked.

“None. Given the limitations you’d dictated,” he snapped. After his first attempt to remove the spell that blocked Dr. Yoshi’s memory, he had nearly driven the doctor to cardiac arrest. I’d forbidden my brother from using potentially dangerous magic on the man. “If we’re going to have any chance to identify our nemesis, you’ll have to let me take the gloves off.”

“The doctor is no good to us dead.”

“You don’t trust me.” Josh buried his rising temper with a haughty chuckle. “How many times do I have to prove myself?”

“If you were certain how to break the spell, I’d accept the risk.”

“Right now, he’s the only chance we have to identify who this witch is,” he pressed.

“We already know the witch has silver hair and purple eyes, and still we can’t identify him. How much more detail can the doctor give us?”

“A name?”

“Probably false.”

“Ethan, I know you’ve decided Yoshi was manipulated into creating the poison. That may be, but we don’t know for sure. We can’t know until we break that spell.”

“Find a way that doesn’t put his life at risk. We don’t pass sentence before the trial.” I watched as he ran a hand through his hair, then nodded. “Whatever game this witch is playing,” I said, “he’ll have to reveal himself.”

“You’d think. None of this makes any sense, Ethan. Why the reprieve? Nothing has happened. Three days and there hasn’t been any movement from these things, not a single attack.”

Before I could answer, Sky tentatively stepped into the library, glancing between Josh and me as if waiting for a formal invitation. Josh brightened, offering her a warm smile. He was as caught in Sky’s web as Quell was, I realized.

“Did you need something, Sky?” I asked dismissively, my tone sharper than intended.

She shook her head, but stubbornly held her ground, waiting for Josh to continue. I sighed. There wasn’t any point in trying to dismiss her further.

“I just spoke with Chris,” he continued, “and there hasn’t been any activity with the vampires, either.” His brow tensed as he laid an arm vertically over his chest and nibbled thoughtfully at one of his fingernails.

I was tired of not having answers. My hands turned slowly over each other as I paced the corner of the library. After a moment, it occurred to me that the only possible source of information left to us, as unlikely as it seemed, was the Tre’ase Gloria. That she’d left town suggested that she knew something. Even if she hadn’t returned, a more thorough search of her home might yield some clue. I turned to Josh in time to see him lean forward, as if he had an idea of his own.

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