Darkwater Secrets by Robin Caroll

Author:Robin Caroll
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gilead Publishing
Published: 2018-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Eighteen

Adelaide

“Good, I’m glad you weren’t in your office.” Tracey burst into Adelaide’s suite at the Darkwater.

“I’m glad I gave you the code to get into my suite for emergencies.” Adelaide laid the suit jacket she was about to slip on over the back of the chair.

“Sorry, but I—” She took in Adelaide’s dress and let out a low whistle. “Wow, where are you going all dressed up?”

“It’s Twelfth Night and we have a Mardi Gras krewe in-­house. Considering what’s been going on around here, I thought it might be appropriate for me to drop into their gala tonight. Just to make sure everything’s going well and there are no issues.”

And maybe she could relax, just a little. That would be really nice for a change.

“Oh. Right.”

Adelaide grinned and shook her head. Her best friend was so easily distracted. It was one of her most endearing features, just not tonight. “I would think you’d be busy at work yourself on such a festive night.”

“I have tours back-­to-­back, but I needed to tell you what I found out.” She slumped onto the couch.

Adelaide sat on the edge of the chair opposite the couch. “Okay, tell me.”

“When I started asking around, imagine my surprise to find there was someone else asking around about snakes and gris-­gris and dead chickens.”

“Really?”

Tracey nodded. “Yes. Turns out, she’s the niece of the Pampalons’ housekeeper.”

“What’d she say?”

Tracey kicked off her heels and curled her feet under her. “Her name is Elise, and after much discussion where she could no longer avoid my powers of persuasion, she finally admitted that she’d told Dimitri she’d look into what he’d been finding.”

“There was more than the snake and chicken?”

Tracey nodded. “Apparently there was also a gris-­gris with ashes and rat bones.”

Adelaide crinkled her nose. “Oh, gross.” Her stomach tightened. He hadn’t mentioned that to her. “What does that mean?”

“That’s what Elise was trying to find out. She had one of the older women look up the ingredients in the gris-­gris and track it.”

“Could they tell?”

“It’s a binding hex. To bind Dimitri to whomever was casting it.”

Adelaide’s chest constricted. “I’m not sure what that means.”

“There are different types of binding. Some are for whatever one person in the spell feels, the other will as well. Another one makes the separation of the people in the binding not able to be too far apart or they’ll get ill. But this one in particular, the one on Dimitri, looks to be a hex where he will be inclined to side with the person who cast it.”

“And that involves a snake and dead chicken?”

“Oh, no. Well, the snake maybe, since it was alive. The gris-­gris sachet was with the snake, the items in the amulet drawing strength from the snake’s power.”

Adelaide shook her head. This was getting crazier and crazier sounding. Maybe Dimitri was right to just give none of this any weight.

Tracey continued to explain. “But the chicken with its head cut off and left to bleed out, that’s an outright hex for harm to whomever it was left for.

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