Lisa Edmonds - 06 Heart of Vengeance by Lisa Edmonds

Author:Lisa Edmonds [Edmonds, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781648980190
Publisher: City Owl Press
Published: 2020-10-12T16:00:00+00:00

18

Thanks to Lucy’s GPS and Isaiah’s directions, we had no trouble finding the field outside Oakdale where he’d buried his pack’s remains.

Even if we hadn’t known the exact location, though, I could have guided us there once we were close. My dark magic roiled, making my stomach churn and my skin crawl, even as it pulled me toward the wolves’ grave. I squashed the sensation with my own magic, though the queasiness remained.

The streets of Oakdale were silent and deserted at three in the morning. Now that I knew to look for them, I noticed supe lights among the streetlights, their bluish tint giving the empty streets an eerie, otherworldly glow.

The field was adjacent to an abandoned salvage yard. Lucy parked her jeep near a couple of motorcycles and cars. I wondered if they’d belonged to members of the pack.

I reached for my door. “Stay in the jeep,” Lucy said. “This is a League investigation.”

“I know how not to contaminate a crime scene.”

“I’m not asking you.” She unbuckled her seatbelt. “Stay put.”

“If this is because of what happened at the roadhouse with that bloody T-shirt, I’ve got that under control.”

She opened her door. “Whatever magic you’ve got that likes these things has been prickling since we rolled into town. I have no idea what you’re capable of. If you lose control again like you did back at Hawthorne’s, I’ll have to do whatever needs doing to protect myself and others. That includes the use of deadly force, which I don’t want to use since I kinda like you, and because I really do not like paperwork. So please stay in the damn jeep.” She got out.

“Can Malcolm go with you to look around and watch your back?” I asked as she reached to close her door.

She thought about it, then nodded. “Okay. Come on, Malcolm.”

“Go on ahead,” he told her. “I’ll catch up.”

Lucy shut her door, took a heavy rucksack from the back of our vehicle, and headed out across the field, picking her way through the grass by our headlights. To my surprise, her skin was pearlescent in the jeep’s supe lights, similar to the ghosts we’d seen along the road on the way to Oakdale. She’d said she was part dead, whatever that meant, so I supposed that shimmery glow confirmed it.

“I’m sorry for what I said about your magic,” Malcolm said to me when she was out of earshot. “I know you’re mad about it and you probably don’t want to talk right now, but I wanted to tell you that, at least.”

“Apology accepted. We’ll have time to talk about it later. Go spy for me and see what you can find out about what killed the werewolves.”

“Roger that. Honk if you need us.” He zipped away to join Lucy.

My new cat-dragon seemed to have gone back to sleep. I set her basket on the driver’s seat and dug into one of the travel bags we’d brought from Hawthorne’s. It contained a large refillable bottle of water

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