Embraced by Embers by Kasey Mackenzie

Author:Kasey Mackenzie [Mackenzie, Kasey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-19T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Horror blossomed into outright nausea as I fought the urge to throw up. My thoughts jumped back to something I’d wondered several times over the past few months. What had ever happened to Garrett’s two other children adopted out by the Hearts in Need Adoption Agency? I’d considered the possibilities that they’d been magical nulls who never developed any Elemental abilities or that they had died and been cut off from their elements so unable to revive. I’d even considered the fact Garrett just had them stashed somewhere nobody knew about. Never had I entertained the thought that they’d been murdered in cold blood.

Although knowing what I did about my youngest and most brutal sibling, the whodunnit part of this revelation didn’t surprise me in the slightest.

Dia gripped my hand and hissed out a breath. “Are—are you sure they’re permanently dead?”

She didn’t bother asking whether Lily was certain Drew had been the one to kill them. We all knew he was capable of that and worse. Look how he’d nearly killed Lily just trying to get to me.

Lily swallowed, tears still shimmering in those pale blue eyes so like our father’s. The eyes all of his children shared. Even the murdered ones...

“I’m sorry but...yes. I saw the autopsy photos myself. He had them beheaded.”

My brain picked up on her wording. “You mean he didn’t kill them himself?”

“He ordered them to be killed by the same mercenary group who abducted your brother. He paid the money to have them murdered. He gave those mercs all the details about them so they could find our brother and sister. Ironically when he was still a teenager himself. And then he had it covered up so it looked like some psycho Elemental serial killer took them both out. So yeah, in my eyes he did kill them himself.”

I raised a placating hand. “Don’t get me wrong; I’m not absolving him in any way. Just surprised he hired someone else to do it. But I guess that was because he was so young at the time?”

Lily closed her eyes briefly. “More like because he could then look our father in the eye and rightfully swear he didn’t kill them himself if ever asked. Especially if Father ever interrogated him using Spirit. There wouldn’t be even the echo of a lie in his mind because the way he sees things, he’d be telling the truth.”

Dia let out a hoarse, “Those poor kids. And that sadistic bastard.”

This time I was the one to squeeze her hand to offer comfort. “So he murdered them out of—what? Jealousy? Because he wants to be the only one of us who can channel Spirit?”

“Ding, ding, ding,” Lily said without a trace of humor. “Mariana manifested her both her Dragon and Mindbending abilities early like Drew, about a year before he found out about her. Simon began channeling Air and Spirit a few months before his murder. Father was just about to arrange for both to be adopted by Elementals when...when Drew had them killed.

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