Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus Betrayal: The Lily Singer Adventures by Lydia Sherrer

Author:Lydia Sherrer [Sherrer, Lydia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781950267019
Publisher: Chenoweth Press
Published: 2019-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

Sebastian didn’t bother sneaking this time. He simply walked up to the front entrance of the old factory and knocked. Pip hovered at a distance, fully glamoured and flitting back and forth nervously. He wasn’t sure why he’d bothered calling for her. He knew how this would play out. Without his staff, what little hope he’d had of making it out alive was gone. It didn’t matter now—all that mattered was ensuring Freddie’s safe release.

His entire body felt numb, and he welcomed the lack of sensation. It helped to quiet his mind and still his thoughts. The daze was better than the fear, something he knew was only a short step away if he lost control.

“Well, well, well, if it isn’t the runt. Long time no see.” Cassius’s heavyset face split in an unpleasant grin, his stocky body blocking the crack he’d opened in the doorway. “I always knew I’d have a chance to get even. Guess today’s the day, huh?”

Sebastian didn’t reply. The piece of trash wasn’t worth the breath.

“So where’s the book?”

“Shut up and take me to him,” Sebastian replied, using as few words as possible and not bothering to even look at the shorter man.

“You won’t be so cocky when he’s done with you,” Cassius muttered, opening the door wide to let Sebastian in. “Just you wait.”

Sebastian strode past, trying to make his steps confident and resolute—the exact opposite of how he felt. He sensed Pip zip through a tiny hole near the ceiling, staying high and out of sight as he headed for the offices at the end of the huge, vaulted factory floor, now empty of paper mill machinery. Halfway across, however, an office door opened and out filed Roger, Freddie, and Roger’s posse of acolytes. Roger and Freddie halted about five paces in front of him, while the rest of the witches moved to surround him, Cassius remaining where he was at the rear. Sebastian hardly cared anymore. He already knew he couldn’t be in a worse situation, even as all his carefully constructed control began to unravel at his mere proximity to Roger.

He could feel it, could feel its pull. And the thing behind Roger’s mismatched eyes knew it. A wide smile slowly spread across the older witch’s face, though there was a shadow of something in his eyes. Was it disappointment? Sebastian couldn’t tell—not without meeting that deadly gaze from which he now had no protection.

“As I said before, Sebastian. Decent, and predictable. But do not fret. We will soon cure you of that. I promise, you will be so much more…free, when we are finished. Free from worries or cares, free from the burden of choice. If you want to know what it is like, simply ask Frederick.”

Sebastian focused on his brother, noting with relief that Freddie seemed unharmed, even if his face was as vacant and lifeless as before.

“I’m not doing a thing until you get out of his head and let him go.”

“That is hardly fair, my boy. How do I even know you have my book?”

“I’ll ram it down your ugly throat, that’s how.

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