Missing in Jinx Cove by Savannah Mae & Ava Mallory

Author:Savannah Mae & Ava Mallory [Mae, Savannah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19: The Montoya Sisters

I had to admit, I did get a sense of satisfaction from watching my sister squirm.

“Please, don’t make me do this,” she begged Calypso.

Lyra tried to calm her nerves, but nothing she did worked. “Honey, maybe if you close your eyes and count to ten.”

She still refused to let Calypso hypnotize her. “No, I can’t.”

My mother pleaded with her, “It will be okay. I’m right here. We won’t let anything happen to you.”

“Why can’t Bea do it? She’s more gullible than I am.”

I laughed. “Hardly. I’m not the one who let herself be tied up by a room full of witches. No wonder the kidnapper chose us. He saw an easy mark.”

My mother turned to me, a scowl on her face. “That’s enough. If she can’t be hypnotized, we’ll try it on you.”

I gulped. I didn’t want any part of it. My memory was fine. How was I supposed to remember men I never actually saw?

“She saw more than I did.”

Juliana grunted, “Thanks a lot, loser.”

“Thank yourself,” I retorted. “Can we get this over with? I’m starving.”

“We forgot about dinner. When was the last time you ate?” Lyra asked.

I shrugged. “Before the incident.”

She clapped her hands and ordered me to follow her. “This can wait. They need to eat first.”

Calypso started to protest, but Lyra slanted her eyes at her, daring her to put up a fuss.

“Fine, but they better make it quick. The longer this takes, the less likely we’ll ever find the guys who stole my car and hogtied them,” Calypso warned.

I ran to catch up with Lyra, avoiding eye contact with my family. There was no way I could win with either of them. In the end, we all wanted the same thing, but their tactics left a lot to be desired. How we got roped into a hypnosis session, I didn’t understand. My mother wasn’t into that sort of thing. She had better ways of coercing information out of people.

“I hope you like lemon chicken,” Lyra said as she perused the shelves in their refrigerator.

“I do,” I answered.

She pulled out a tray of chicken and roasted potatoes. “I made this for dinner, but with all the commotion, I never had the chance to serve it. Sorry. It never even occurred to me that you hadn’t eaten at all.”

“We can eat?” Juliana asked. “Do you have anything dairy-free, gluten-free, and Paleo-friendly?”

Leave it to her to complicate the simplest of things. Again.

“You can’t expect them to make you a special meal. This isn’t a restaurant.”

My mother shook her head. “She’ll be fine with whatever you have. Thank you.”

While we waited for the meal to warm up in the oven, we took a few minutes to gather our thoughts. Calypso was convinced we’d brought the kidnapping on ourselves, but thankfully, she didn’t believe my mother’s theory about my father setting us up. Her theory was that someone had targeted her, and we screwed up their plans. She never said it out loud, but I got the feeling she placed most of the blame on Juliana.

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