Deadly Arrogance: Necromancer Tales Book IV by MJ May

Author:MJ May [May, MJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2025-12-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Nineteen

Erasmus

Gaia, I was tired. And nauseous. I rarely felt this ill after retrieving a soul. I also rarely brought back this many souls that had been viciously murdered. I cringed remembering the litany of pain each and every one felt in their final moments on earth. While I couldn’t be certain, I had a feeling it was made that much worse by the souls themselves. They weren’t good. That was a vague term I didn’t truly have a definition for. All I could say was that each of them felt wrong in some way or another. None of them were emotionally stable, and I suspicioned all had some form of undiagnosed psychosis. Interpreting their responses took a lot more effort than a psychologically sound soul.

Mental illness threw a wrench into the perception of truth. I’d lost count of the number of times I told Franklin that what was said was “their truth.” That didn’t mean it was true, only that they believed it to be.

As Pops’s pain charm wore off, my headache resurfaced. I activated another immediately. Unfortunately, I didn’t have any antinausea charms hanging out in my pockets.

Franklin was speaking with his captain, Loretta Cicely. I’d considered driving home but was afraid I’d either fall asleep or maybe pass out at the wheel. Currently, I wasn’t the most capable driver, and so I parked my butt on Franklin’s chair, slumped down and mindlessly staring at the litany of papers scattered across his desk. Knowing him, there was order to the chaos, but it was an order only he recognized.

Officer Ebony Becks had walked by a couple of times. Each pass she kindly asked me how I was doing and if there was anything she could get me. Ebony was one of my favorites, and I made certain to plaster a smile on my face every time I declined her generous offers. Truth was, there wasn’t anything she could do. She’d also taken the opportunity to apologize again about not having time to make headway on the list of human necromancer mother names the Warlock Council had reluctantly sent my way last year. I reassured her not to worry about it. Currently, that project was on indefinite hold. Leander Dunn’s call last night cemented my resolve not to search for my fellow necromancers until the issues with Huxley were resolved. I could not knowingly place any more of them in harm’s way. The guilt over Leander sat heavy enough in my gut.

Pulling out my phone, I sifted through my latest texts. Phlox and Leon were on their way to Leander’s home right now. Leander wasn’t happy about it, but when I’d explained that Phlox and Leon could bring charmed wards to set up around the house, he’d relented. None of us knew if they would work, but it was all I currently had to offer. They wouldn’t be as good as if Pops were here and laid them himself.

The charms were older, but Pops assured me they should still work.

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