Impulse (Mageri Series: Book 3) by Dannika Dark

Author:Dannika Dark [Dark, Dannika]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fantasy
Published: 2012-10-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

We left Novis’s mansion on a sunny Thursday morning for the official move. My mood was glum. Despite its medieval embrace, our house had grown on me. I was going to miss leaping out of bed on the balls of my feet because the stone floor felt like a sheet of ice. I’d miss the crackling fire in the great room where I spent most of my time reading on the fur rug, and the amplified sounds of Justus’s sticky feet treading up the stairs after his workout, or the hiss of a candle as the flame bickered with the wax.

The Aston Martin veered off the main highway, coasting up a long country road paved with dirt.

“You should move into the city,” I suggested. “It would be a nice change to be near civilization and walk to the market.”

“Too dangerous,” he replied.

Justus seemed uncomfortable at times with modern society and I wondered if it had to do with him being an older immortal stuck in his ways.

I glared at the garage that looked more like an airplane hangar. Justus lifted the latch of the middle compartment and locked away his aviators.

“This is your idea of security?” I sighed inwardly at the idea of living in an open garage.

When the garage door lifted, so did my skepticism. Justus had been shopping and two glamorous cars were on display. One was a black Porsche, but I didn’t recognize the model of the second vehicle. The ornament was a leaping cat of some kind, but I didn’t know my cars well enough to tell. It looked a little plain, but I had a feeling the price tag was anything but.

“Hidden security cameras are installed around the perimeter and are motion sensitive. Alarms will go off with movement—anything bigger than a wolf,” he said, pointing outside as the garage door closed. “I’ll be inviting Novis over to get his advice—one of the settings is a silent alarm, but the security guy spoke too fast and I’m not certain what the others do.” Justus coughed into his fist and worked out a kink in his shoulder. “There are traps throughout the property.”

We stepped out of the car and slammed the doors.

“Maybe that’s not such a good idea,” I said, watching the garage door close. “What if I have to escape and I end up caught in one of your bear traps? I like to take walks, you know.”

“No sneaking out, and until we get this situation contained—no walks.”

He opened a panel in the wall and scanned his thumb. I didn’t even see the lines because they were cleverly hidden within a large rack of tools. The wall slid to the side and I stared into a metal elevator.

“You have a thing for subterranean homes, don’t you? I hope the electricity runs all the way into the house or I brought my hairdryer for nothing,” I grumbled.

We stepped inside and the door closed.

“What’s that?” I asked, pointing at a flat panel on the wall.

When the elevator stopped, Justus placed his thumb against it and the door opened.

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