Hexed by Kevin Hearne

Author:Kevin Hearne [Hearne, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fantasy, Vampires, Azizex666, Adult
ISBN: 9780345522559
Google: gm4CCWXYgMQC
Amazon: B004J4WND0
Barnesnoble: B004J4WND0
Goodreads: 11199735
Publisher: Del Rey
Published: 2011-06-07T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

There were multiple missed calls on my cell phone. Some were from Granuaile, some from Malina, and a couple from Hal Hauk, my lawyer. I called my lawyer first.

“Atticus! Tell me you weren’t involved in this Satyrn Massacre business,” he said without preamble.

“Satyrn massacre?”

“That’s what the papers are calling it. Capital M.”

“Oh. Well, look, why don’t you come over,” I said, because anyone could be listening.

“Gods of light and darkness preserve us. Don’t move, I’ll be right there,” he growled, and then hung up.

Granuaile was next. “Are you all right?” she asked.

“I’m afraid you’ll have to define your terms.”

“You’re still in one piece and everything still works.”

“Then yes, I’m all right.”

“Good. Thought you’d like to know that priest and rabbi came in again.”

“They did?” I frowned. “What did they want?”

“They asked me to open the rare-book case. I told them I couldn’t.”

“Right, because you can’t.”

“Right. They looked pretty pissed. And then they asked all these questions about you. Religious stuff, like whether you were a Christian or a Jew or a pagan, and whether you practiced your religion faithfully.”

“What did you tell them?”

“I said those were questions better answered by yourself. They wanted to know when you’d be back, and I had to tell them I really didn’t know.”

“Well, hopefully I’ll be in before the day is through. Can Perry and Rebecca run things tomorrow?”

“Sure. What do you want me to do?”

“Latin, of course, and get your job back at Rúla Búla.”

“Already got it. All it took was a phone call and some groveling to Liam.”

“Excellent! I want you to come over in the morning so I can see about doing something for your personal protection. I haven’t done a divination recently, but I’m getting one of those hunches.”

“The paranoid kind?”

“What other kind is there? Hey,” I said, my voice dropping and lilting with dulcet, honey-bunny tones, “can I tell you one of the many reasons I love you?” This wasn’t an abrupt flowering of love between us. It was a code phrase, one that Granuaile herself had suggested.

“Look, sensei,” she’d said upon her return from North Carolina. “I don’t know if things are going to get crazy again like they did with Aenghus Óg, but if they do, we need a way to communicate alibis successfully over the phone. You can’t just send your lawyer over every time you need to work something out. You might not always have time. The cops might get to me before he does. I might be out of town when you need me. And that whole business was so messy, so much could have gone wrong. So we should plan ahead and Be Prepared, you know, like the Boy Scouts.”

“Fuck the Boy Scouts,” I’d said. “Be Prepared was my motto before there were any streets to help little old ladies across.”

“Oh. Right.” Granuaile had paused, and when I failed to fill the silence, she asked, “Does that mean you already have a plan, sensei?”

“No, I’m just establishing my primacy over the Boy Scouts.

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