Merry Little Mystic Murder by Patti Larsen

Author:Patti Larsen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Patti Larsen Books

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Chapter Fourteen

Hard not to come to a complete and utter halt when your mother shared something so dire. However, my instant desire to rush to help decided to have a short and rather terse argument with my ingrained training to listen to the woman who raised me.

What can I do? Surprising, how calm I sounded in my own head.

Silas is here, Mom sent, sounding rather collected herself, a sure sign she was ready to blow. My mother’s enthusiasm for life and emotion rarely hid behind anything which could only mean she was on the edge of her temper. It’s been confirmed. The wards are terminally tainted. That was terrible news. If they couldn’t be cleared, it meant tearing them down completely, starting again. Which might not sound like a big deal. Except, those wards had been built from the ground up and added to by each and every Monday witch who had ever been. Erasing them would take all the power my family had. Building them again? I couldn’t even imagine the years it would take. Leaving us vulnerable in the interim and likely at the mercy of the Academy for protection.

I held my breath thinking about how Isolde took that news.

Mom wasn’t done. We’ve been officially notified the Academy of Adepts plans to investigate and, if charges are warranted, we will be banished at the least.

And the worst? I knew better than to ask.

The fire, she sent as though that weren’t even an issue.

Mom. I swallowed past the sting of tears, the tightening in my throat. Someone has to be behind this.

We are of that mind as well, the Mother sent, before she retreated and Mom returned. Clearly, we have been targeted, that much is obvious. But finding out who had decided to attack our family may not be easily uncovered. This couldn’t be happening. We were one of the most revered families in the Academy. My mind spluttered over the audacity, the unbelievability of such an act while Mom paused. Are you still friends with Mirabelle Whitehall?

As a matter of fact. I leaned into the wall near the door, breathing through my mouth and staring at my boots to keep from running upstairs. As far as I know, I sent.

She’s named as the medical investigator, Mom sent. I need you to talk to her, Phoebe. Find out what evidence they have against us.

This is ridiculous, I sent back.

Clearly. Her calm helped, despite the fact I knew it meant trouble. Darling dear, just do as I ask, please. We’ll hold things together here. But I need you to stay out of it. Do you understand?

While my family was thrown under the bus by who knew what conspiracy? Because there was no way they’d even dabbled in blood rituals without me knowing it.

Despite the utter ridiculousness of it, I had to accept someone was trying to destroy us. Sure, maybe I was spending too much time in the company of cops, but I was positive if I laid out the real case to Morales and Sallow, to Coop? A set-up would be the first thing they’d suggest, too.

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