Deliver Us From Evil by Allison Brennan

Author:Allison Brennan [Brennan, Allison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Adult, Romance
ISBN: 9781501152436
Google: ryzJCwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B01D8VHPF0
Barnesnoble: B01D8VHPF0
Goodreads: 29565622
Publisher: Pocket Star
Published: 2007-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

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ON THE WAY to the sheriff’s department, Anthony asked Skye about the conversation he’d overheard between her and Dr. Fielding.

“They were drugged?”

“Apparently it had been happening for months and ended two weeks ago. The same time as your friend fired the housekeeper.”

“Housekeeper?”

“Corinne Davies. Know her?”

Anthony shook his head. “Do you know anything about her background?”

“Not much. Detective Martinez is working on it. She came from Oregon highly recommended from the diocese up there. The bishop was ticked off that Cooper fired her, but apparently has no control over the workings of the mission. She’s on vacation.”

Corinne Davies. “I can make some calls,” Anthony suggested. “Someone in the church might feel more comfortable talking to me than the police.”

Skye didn’t say anything for a moment, and Anthony wondered if she was going to tell him to stay out of the investigation. Instead, she surprised him and said, “I’d appreciate that. Anything about her history, complaints, background. She has a daughter, Lisa, but there’s no father in the picture. I don’t even have his name.”

She’d taken a step toward trusting him. Anthony was elated.

“What happened to the journal, Anthony? How did”— she paused—“the killer erase all those pages?”

She couldn’t say demon. But asking for his advice was a huge step. “I think Rafe used blessed ink.”

“Excuse me?”

“When the demon touched it, the ink disappeared.”

“Disappearing ink.”

By her cool tone, he was losing her. He changed tactics, using a cop’s logic. “Rafe must have written something the killer doesn’t want us to know,” Anthony suggested. “Maybe evidence of who had been drugging the priests.”

“Why wouldn’t he have just called the police?”

“Maybe he didn’t have proof. Maybe he didn’t think you’d believe him.” But Rafe had suspected something super-natural, that’s why he’d called Anthony in the first place.

In light of the evidence of the men being drugged, everything made sense. Their odd behavior. Rafe’s unease, but unable to explain why. Why hadn’t Anthony seen it? He hadn’t expected the trio of humans. He’d been looking at demons only, not at the ritual of summoning one. He’d bypassed the process of elimination and looked only at the obvious. Had his personal arrogance jeopardized Rafe and killed the others?

Whatever Rafe had sensed that spurred his call to Anthony was the beginning of the ritual to bring Ianax from Hell. And perhaps, in light of the long-term drugging, one of the priests had been concerned and asked Rafe to come to the mission in the first place.

“Why did he write it in Latin?” she asked. “To keep the information from the priests?”

“They all knew Latin,” Anthony said. “The only reason to write in that language would be to keep the information from laypeople. Those who have reason to be at the mission. Repairmen, housekeepers, deliverymen.”

Skye asked, “Do you know a Dr. Wicker?”

Anthony couldn’t lie. “Yes.”

“And?”

“What do you want to know?”

“You want to help, right?”

“You know I do.”

“Then why were all these priests seeing a shrink?”

“I explained that to you. They’ve all witnessed evil.” Anthony remembered the conversation he’d had with Rafe right before he left Italy.

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