Karma's Sparkle: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel (Magical Midlife in Mystic Hollow Book 8) by Lacey Carter & L.A. Boruff

Author:Lacey Carter & L.A. Boruff [Carter, Lacey & Boruff, L.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-12-13T00:00:00+00:00

FOURTEEN

Emma

The leather hugged my body as I adjusted to the passenger seat of Beth's car, her pride and joy. The gleam of the dashboard reflected her smile; she was in her element behind the wheel. In the back, Carol and Deva were bobbing their heads to the music, and I couldn’t help but smile. I always felt like I was in my element when I was with my friends.

"Thanks for coming out with us, Beth, I know you’re probably exhausted after being up all night,” I said.

She yawned. "It’s okay. I wanted to be here.”

"Okay, so we're clear on why we're seeking out Broth?" Beth glanced at me through the rearview mirror, then over to Carol in the backseat.

I was immediately confused. Wasn’t it obvious? We were seeking him out to see if he was the one attacking people. And from the sounds of the man, he very well might be exactly who we’ve been looking for.

"Broth could be our guy." I pulled a strand of wind-tossed hair from my mouth.

"No." Beth tapped the steering wheel. "He's not the real problem here. Broth has been a werewolf for a long time. He didn’t go crazy and kill someone. Well, probably not. He doesn’t have any motivation to be attacking these people, as far as we know. He could, however, have been incentivized by someone…"

I felt a light switch on in my head. Of course! But I wasn’t the one to say it.

"Jamur Hede," Carol muttered contemptuously from the back. "That man would sell his soul if it meant he could claim something that wasn’t his, the freaking scam artist."

"But he’s not the type to get his hands dirty. He is, however, the type to pay to get someone else’s hands dirty,” I said.

"He’s a real coward,” Deva said, shaking her head. "It’s all about the money for him.”

Beth nodded. "That's the thing. It's not just about the land. It's personal for him. According to one of my sources, he's been after these lands for years, and every time, something stops him. This time, he's desperate. If he doesn’t get the town to acknowledge his claim over the lands, they’ll become protected lands, and he’ll never get his hands on them. He’s desperate."

"Desperate enough to pay someone to attack committee members?" I knew the answer but needed to hear it out loud.

"Exactly." She signaled and turned onto a road that would lead us to Steel Knife. "It's not that Broth went crazy. Jamur Hede might have paid him off to do the dirty work, to stop the lands from being protected. We've seen it before."

"Money talks." Carol pulled a face.

"Unfortunately," Beth sighed. "But we're going to set things right. As right as they can be set."

Deva leaned forward and asked, "Do we know anything about the lands that are in question?”

Without looking beside her, Beth reached around and pulled out a map, handing it to Deva. Deva opened it up and whistled low. I turned in my seat to see a big plot of land outlined in red.

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