Give Up the Ghost: The Nightwatch Series Book 2 by Cassidy Debbie

Author:Cassidy, Debbie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-18T16:00:00+00:00

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Henri was in the kitchen when I entered. He was sitting at the table, and Mai was at the counter stirring cocoa into two mugs of milk.

I pulled out a chair and sat down. “Where are Lark and Jay?”

“Lark’s checking on Kris, and Jay is having a chat with Bres, filling him in on what’s happened today.”

My ears perked up. “Will Bres interrogate Lex today?”

“I don’t know. But you can go and ask him yourself in about half an hour when Jay is done with him.”

She picked up both mugs. “I’m off to bed. It’s been a long bloody night.”

She padded out of the room in her slippers.

Henri looked up at me. He was in silver mode, his features smooth and perfect. He sat back in his seat and folded his arms across his chest. The material of his T-shirt stretched to accommodate his silver biceps. “We need to talk about what happened in the forest. You did a Houdini again.”

The hair on the back of my neck prickled. The Shade, that fucking horrific place. “Did anyone else see?”

“Lark and Mai arrived just after you vanished and leaped into the fray, and then you reappeared a minute later. I don’t even think they realized you weren’t there.”

“I was in the Shade again.”

“You left the weaver there?”

“I tried to bring her back with me, but she let go of my hand just before … just before I tore back through.”

He tucked in his chin. “Can you control it?”

“I don’t know.”

He gave me a level look. “You need to tell Karishma about this, it could be a clue to your heritage. Maybe she knows of a creature that can slip in and out of the Shade.”

I’d deliberately left that information out of my account at the hearing. Telling them how much of a freak I was hadn’t felt like a good idea at the time, but Henri was right. Karishma might be able to use the information to help me figure out what kind of supernatural my father was.

“I’ll ask her about it. I just … I’m kinda hoping it was a fluke and won’t happen again.”

“Burying your head in the sand and hoping something goes away has never been your modus operandi, Kat.”

His silver eyes bore into me challengingly, and my pulse sped up. Was he referring to this thing between us? Was this his nudge for me to say something. Fuck, when had things slipped into heart fluttering territory between us?

“Henri, I—"

His expression smoothed out. “How did it happen, Kat? What did you do to get into the Shade?”

Oh. Okay, so we weren’t going to have that conversation. It took a moment to adjust gears. “Um … I don’t even know. One moment, the weaver chick was trying to choke the life out of me, and you know, just set my blood on fire with her magic, and the next, I was in the Shade.” I drummed my fingers on the table. “I have no idea how I got out.

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