Mourning Lark by Jen Pretty

Author:Jen Pretty [Pretty, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781775290667
Published: 2019-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

“Who has returned? Are we still talking about this Indra guy?” I asked.

Shiva’s eyes flicked back to me. “You must go, I have much to do!”

“Don’t you dare!” I shouted as his snake came slithering down his arm and dropped to the ground on its fat belly with a plop. It didn't stop at my words, It kept coming towards me, hissing. I stood and took a step back.

✽ ✽ ✽

I tripped and fell backwards, but strong arms caught me, and in a blink, I was back in the room in Vaughn’s house, and Vincent was holding me.

“Are you ok?” he asked. His warm breath tickled across my cheek as he righted me.

“Yes. Sorry.” I said turning around to look at him.

“Is everything all right?” The look of concern on his face made me melt. My resolve to focus on the job at hand wasn’t very strong. I gave my head a shake.

“I just…” I glanced at Singh who was lying on the bed, his massive lion head on my pillow and his eyes open watching us.

“Shiva is just a jerk. Well, his snake is a jerk.”

Vincent chuckled. “Come with me,” he said, sliding his hand down my arm to take my hand.

“Where are we going?” I asked.

“I want to take you out for dinner and explain what happened. Durga will want to know.”

“Yeah, the buffalo demon is all she is interested in now. Well, him and Vernon.”

The smile fell from Vincent's face. He nodded. “Why don’t you get changed and we can talk about it over dinner.”

He turned and walked out the door. I sighed and rooted through my clothes. I had nothing nice to wear, so I walked down the stairs to find Kelly.

“Hey, Lark,” she said as I entered the kitchen.

“Hey. Do you have something nice I could borrow? Vincent wants to take me out to dinner and I all I have is yoga pants and hip waders.” I laughed.

“Sure, come with me,” she said, drying her hands on a towel and leading me out of the kitchen. Her room was on the main floor. It was much smaller than the one I was staying in, but she had decorated in beautiful colours and floral prints. I had never even painted a room I stayed in. I always assumed it was temporary, but I would never be the type of person who decorated their room like this. This was the room of a happy person and seeing it reminded me I would not get my happy ending.

I borrowed a navy dress and a pair of heels to match and got changed before meeting Vincent in Vaughn’s office.

“You look amazing,” Vincent said. “You ready to go?”

His face lit up like I had never seen before. I doubt anyone from back home could tell him from his twin now. They had matching smiles. It was weird.

“Sure, let's go,” I said, plastering a smile on my face. He took my hand and led me from the house.

The bad feeling in my stomach as we drove through the city didn’t ease up.

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