Harmony_A 'Not-Quite' Haunted Love Story by Julia Mills

Author:Julia Mills [Mills, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2017-10-23T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

“He’s what?” I screamed, leaning heavier into Sam and glaring at my aunt, flipping like a fish outta water from the overload of freaked-up revelations crashing down on me.

Shaking my head, needing to hear her say it again to be absolutely sure I wasn’t hallucinating, I tried to ask calmly, but sounded more like Manic Mandy McCreedy (A girl from my Advanced Potions class in high school, a story for another day.) as I clenched my fists to keep from sending Dot to the time-out urn. “Don’t you think that knowing my father wanted me dead was something someone should have told me before now.”

Suddenly repentant, the mist surrounding her floating form turning a deep, ocean blue, Aunt Dot hung her head and mumbled, “I didn’t think I would have to.”

“You what?” I was yelling again, ‘cause I kinda needed to know, ya’ know? “You didn’t think you would have to tell me? What the hell does that mean, Dot? Huh? What? Speak!”

I pushed away from Sam stalking towards my aunt as she floated backward away from me while frantically shaking her head, thinking she could out run (or float) me. Quickly catching up to her and poking her in the shoulder with my index finger, I raged, “You thought you wouldn’t have to or didn’t need to tell me that some powerful warlock who was locked in the CopacaNetherworld was my dad and that he was trying to kill me?”

“It wasn’t like that.” Her voice cracked as crocodile tears filled her eyes. “I…I…well, it’s just that…I…”

Tired of her hemming and hawing, I growled through gritted teeth as two fiery balls of seething, rage-filled magic grew bigger by the second on either side of my head where they hung, spinning in mid-air, “Do not get all weepy and girlie on me, dammit. You know that shit doesn’t work on me.” Stepping closer still, the chill of her ghostly spirit making sparks pop and crack as it meshed with the boiling wrath of my blood-red-deep-purple aura.

“Tell me, Dot.” I could feel the evil grin stretching across my face and see the ominous glow of my dark brown eyes shining in the space between us as I shrugged and forced my best ‘it’s all good’ tone into my voice, “What did you do?” I even winked as I snickered, “Just like you always said, we can handle anything as long as we tell the truth and work together.”

Whooshing back to her lofty spot, just out of my reach, in the middle of the mantel, Dot looked everywhere but at me as she bit her bottom lip and wrung her hands. Counting down from a hundred in my head, not even the feel of Sam’s hands on my shoulders could calm me down. I was pissed, and this time, I was gonna get the answers I damned-well deserved.

Opening my mouth to press my aunt further, it suddenly dawned on me that I had no clue where Dot had sent Nate. If the bastard was trying to kill me at least I needed to know which way he was coming from.

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