Missing, Suspected Dead: Elisabeth Hicks, Witch Detective by Rachel Graves

Author:Rachel Graves [Graves, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781735025001
Published: 2021-08-12T16:00:00+00:00

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The best lead to finding Leo’s mother was my brother-in-law, Jeremy, who was filming some big-budget blow-things-up movie down the highway in Hollywood. Lucky for me, the big star always answered my calls. He didn’t have enough time to answer questions over the phone, but happily accepted a lunch date. As always, my brother-in-law loved the idea of having family come by. I ended the call, glad I could make him happy just by sharing a plate of food.

Ted and his mother needed more than a meal or two to work out their differences. And I wasn’t so sure those differences should be worked out. In the time I’d known her, Susan psychically sent pain to Vincent and Amy, two people she considered family, just because they spoke out of turn. She’d also threatened to eat me or at least said she ate people like me. Not exactly mother-of-the-year actions. They made me think LaRue had been right. Ted would be better off with her dead, quickly, quietly, and with no drama, but dead just the same.

If you ignored her, the rest of the Pack seemed to have made a giant leap forward. My magic told me Vincent and Amy hadn’t been lying. They lived in a hotel, they didn’t steal from people, followed the law, and at least acted civilized. Except for his mother, the demons of Ted’s past seemed gone. The problem wasn’t the Pack but whatever was preying on them.

My vacation was still on my mind, but it wouldn’t hurt to look into the Pack’s problem. I just needed a way to do it safely. There didn’t seem to be a good one; Ted would probably move up our vacation timeline just to get me out of his mother’s reach.

My mind wandered all the way to Hollywood. There was no way to guess what Jeremy might know about Nala Renji. He could give me an address on the other side of the state, or not have an address at all. Doubt crept into me. Maybe I should have stayed in town, closer to Susan and the trouble she presented. Ted might need someone to protect him. When I called him, he told me otherwise, promised me it was a normal day, and lied that he hadn’t thought of her since breakfast. It’s funny how my gift works, even over the phone when there isn’t a change in someone’s voice, I can tell a lie. He’d thought about his mother a lot.

The studio gates appeared in front of me as if no time had passed, when really my head had been on werewolf trouble for more than a few miles. I took some time to focus myself while security checked me in. No more werewolves, just werelions. Get the baby home, then worry about the rest of it.

I parked my car in front of the tall rectangle building adorned with a giant green 16. The red light over the door was off, so I headed inside the soundstage.

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