Gray Tidings by Hailey Edwards

Author:Hailey Edwards [Edwards, Hailey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Black Dog Books, LLC.
Published: 2022-10-17T16:00:00+00:00

11

With the clock ticking, we needed to locate Dad. Fast. But I didn’t have the bottle with me, and it was an oddly faithful servant to Aedan. That left me with one option before I got the type of magic involved that Dad would see coming and, no doubt, evade in order to avoid the confrontation that came along with it.

“Clear,” Asa called on his way down from the second floor of Townhouse B.

Until Clay arrived, we might as well be productive. That meant Asa searching the residence for evidence and me updating Colby on everything Luca told us.

“The scent path leads from the bedroom to the kitchen and from the bedroom to the front door. There’s nothing on the stairs or in the rooms on the other two floors.”

Without magic to track, he was reduced to the human options of deodorant, soap, lotion, or perfume.

“Luca is using this as an entry point to the tunnels, not as a base. Or she was. I doubt she comes back.”

True to her word, she had been waiting here for us to get with the program, nothing more.

“That leaves us one other potential basement that must be where the corpses are kept.” He glanced back the way we came in. “Luca might have kept Tibby down there too.”

“We would have to explore those tunnels to be sure.”

“I can do that while you touch base with Aedan.”

“You’re going to let Blay run amuck down there, aren’t you?”

“We need to bait him to the surface if you’re ever going to confront him.”

“Confront is a harsh word. I want him to know I forgive him, but if he ever does it again, I will delete his Mystic Realms and Mystic Seas profiles and make him start over from scratch using a freebie account.”

“Cruel and unusual punishment indeed.” He sounded approving. “We’ll be back.”

“I’ll be here.” I took a seat near the door. “You didn’t think I was going to leave you two alone, did you?”

The smile growing on his face told me that yes, he would have expected it. From anyone else. But not from me. He was learning to trust I was his safety net. To believe I would catch him or break myself trying, no matter how far the fall.

Battling his inner daemon, Asa returned to the tunnels with his phone in hand to begin mapping.

Dread coiling in my stomach, I forced myself to relax before dialing Aedan. “Hey, coz.”

“You heard about the boys?”

“I did.” A swell of pride filled my chest. “The girls handled it well.”

“Better than I would have,” he agreed, an edge of violence in his voice. “What’s up?”

“I don’t suppose you brought the secret message bottle with you?”

“I wasn’t sure if you would need it, so yes, I did.”

“I knew you were my favorite cousin for a reason.”

“The only other cousin you’ve met tried to kill you…”

“Minor detail,” I assured him. “Any ideas on how to send it? Sink? Bathtub? Toilet?”

“I was thinking more along the lines of the lake or the river.

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