Jeaniene Frost - 06 One Grave at a Time by Jeaniene Frost

Author:Jeaniene Frost
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-08-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-one

I wrinkled my nose as I set the pet carrier down in the small living room of the town house. The former occupants must have been smokers. A lingering scent of tobacco permeated the walls and carpet, but it was better than the garlicky ganja aroma we’d surrounded ourselves with at Spade’s. Not that it had done any good. Kramer was obviously too powerful for that to be a deterrent. But, since I was supposed to be looking on the bright side, last night meant we didn’t have to start looking for Italian chefs and drug dealers in order to layer up this place with a bunch of garlic and weed. How was that for a Glass-Half-Full perspective?

The first thing I did even before letting my kitty out was start lighting sage and putting it on some of the many incense burners and glass jars we’d acquired on our trip from St. Louis to Sioux City. We hadn’t gotten any sleep between the drive, picking up supplies, and arranging for our accommodations here, but catching some winks at Spade’s had been out of the question after Kramer’s visit. Spade and Denise packed up just as quickly as the rest of us. Guilt stabbed me that they couldn’t return unless we managed to capture Kramer. Otherwise, who knew if—or when—Kramer might decide to pop back in for another extremely hostile visit. After all, they couldn’t burn sage in every room of their house for the rest of their lives. Or until we caught him, whichever came first.

I knew that Tyler was coming with us, and I expected my mother to tag along as well, but I was surprised when Denise and Spade insisted on coming to Sioux City, too. My question of why was met with pointed stares. Guess Kramer had made two new enemies in his raid, but I didn’t know if Denise’s dragon metamorphosis would work to terrify the ghost a second time. Even a dragon couldn’t harm Kramer, and once he got over his initial terror at seeing one, he’d remember that.

Ian also came along with the comment that he had nothing better to do, and he wanted to see Denise do another “shapeshifter trick,” as he called it. In spite of my personal dislike of him, Ian was crafty, powerful, and practically fearless in a fight. Too bad all that came wrapped up with the conscience of a barracuda, but he was loyal in his own way to Bones and Spade. Ian might claim he was here only because of boredom or the chance to see Denise shape shift into something unusual, but I knew better. The Inquisitor had fucked up when he tried to kill Bones. That, Ian cared about.

Absent from our group were Fabian and Elisabeth. The ghosts had taken their own form of transportation in the form of ley lines. Even though both of them swore that they were careful, and Kramer hadn’t followed them back to Spade’s, it seemed too big a coincidence.

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