Hellfire by Lisa Manifold

Author:Lisa Manifold [Manifold, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-24T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

The next morning, I was still smiling when I woke. It was early, and I made breakfast for everyone. We talked about the vampire spray, and since it was still early, we all trooped downstairs to the stillroom to try out the new ideas.

It was Monday, which meant that the shop was closed. We worked through lunch, and finally, Daniella and Deirdre spelled our latest mixture.

“We need to test it,” I said.

Whatever anyone was going to say was interrupted by a banging on the door upstairs.

“What the hell?” Deirdre muttered.

The three of us ran lightly up the stairs, focusing our magic as we ran. I went to the door and opened it to find Zane.

He leaned against the door jam, breathing heavily.

“What’s wrong?” I asked, panic blooming through me.

“A zombie,” he said. “I have it in my garage. I went to the shop and you weren’t there.”

“Where’d you find the zombie?” Daniella asked.

“Is today the one day you weren’t listening to the police scanner?” he asked.

“No, we were in the stillroom all morning,” I said.

Zane looked at me, and then held up a hand. “You’ll tell me later. There was a call about a raggedy man at the Olaf Seim mine site, and the woman was worried he’d fall in one of the old shafts.”

“You have a scanner?” I asked. “After you gave me grief?”

Zane grinned, and I remembered how it felt to have those lips on mine. I grinned back. I couldn’t help it.

“Seemed like a good idea, you know, to keep up with what’s going on. You mean I got the drop on the Nightingales?”

“We’re kind of busy here,” Daniella said.

“Why didn’t you come and get us?”

“I can handle zombies,” Zane said, and I heard the thread of steel in his voice.

“You can,” I agreed.

He smiled at me as our eye met, and for a moment, it was just the two of us.

“Snap out of it!” Deirdre said. “We need you two on task, not on the moon.”

“Sorry,” I said. “You’re right. We need to get him out of your garage. What was he doing up there at the mine?”

“Digging,” Zane said.

“Just like the ghosts said,” I breathed.

Deirdre sighed. “Let’s get him to the shop,” she said.

“Get who?” Dee asked. She and DeAnna had come up.

“Another zombie,” Daniella said.

“We could test the spray on him!” DeAnna said.

We all looked at her.

“Well, zombies aren’t alive. Just like vampires, right?” She looked around. “What? They’re both dead.”

“You are brilliant,” I said.

“Because she’s a Nightingale,” Deirdre said.

“And a Holliday,” Doc’s voice chimed in from the kitchen.

“And a Holliday,” I agreed. “Which is a double whammy.”

In short order, I went with Zane to get the zombie down to the shop, and the rest took Deirdre’s Jeep, planning to meet us down there with the spray. We could test it on the zombie, on each other, and time it, and then if it was good, make up a large batch and get it out to Deana tomorrow.

Zane took my hand as we walked to his place, and I let him.

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