Once Every Never by Lesley Livingston

Author:Lesley Livingston
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780143180777
Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP (CANADA)
Published: 2011-10-12T08:51:17+00:00

15

Clare stared at Stuart Morholt. What a totally creepy thing to do. What a brilliant totally creepy thing to do. Through her he could glean firsthand knowledge of treasure troves that hadn’t even been discovered yet. That might never be discovered. It was an archaeologist’s dream.

Still, the thought of using her newfound gift to conduct what was, essentially, a scouting mission for a grave-robbery was positively stomach-turning to Clare. She had to stall.

“I won’t do it. Not unless you let Al out of the storage locker.”

“No.”

So much for stalling.

“No more bargaining, Clare. Miss McAllister’s welfare is only your concern, insofar as she won’t have any welfare if you don’t behave.”

“Then at least let me back in.” Clare crossed her arms across her chest and waited, set and purposeful.

“Why?”

She fingered the sleeve of Morholt’s jacket. “Tweed really isn’t my style. Before I go back I’m going to need to switch clothes with Al. I almost froze to death this last time.”

“Right. This last little unauthorized time.”

“Unauth—Oh, get over yourself!” Clare spluttered. “Who do you think you are?”

“I think I am the last of a long line of very powerful mystics, Miss Reid, and you would do well to remember that. I am the closest thing to Boudicca living today. I am a Druid. I am—”

“You are delusional!”

Morholt’s lip lifted in a sneer. “You wouldn’t say that if you knew what I knew. If you’d seen what I am capable of. I’d tell you to ask your aunt Magda about it, but I’m sure she’d tell you it was all nonsense. She’s in denial and has been for years. Not that I blame her, of course. Fear is the hiding place for the weak-minded.”

Maggie? Weak-minded? Definitely delusional, Clare thought. “If you’re so all-powerful, what the hell do you need me for?”

“Don’t you understand? That is the very nature of my gift—the thing that has brought us to this juncture. The Fates have tied the threads of our destinies together, my dippy little time-tripper, so that I may further my ends. You are meant to be my window into the past. A tool to use as I see fit to further my aims of restoring the Celtic peoples of this isle to their former glory!”

“You think?”

“Don’t you?”

It was weird. Stuart Morholt didn’t actually look insane …

He smiled at Clare coldly and moved toward the storage locker. With a twist and slide of the bar lock, he swung the door wide and gestured her in like a maître d’ at a fine restaurant. Clare walked past him, shrugging out of his jacket as she went.

“Make it quick,” Morholt said. “We’ve got work to do, my young apprentice.”

“Oh super,” Al said dryly from where she stood, jammed as far into a corner of the compartment as she could get. “Now he’s talking like a Sith Lord. Clare, please tell me you won’t go over to the Dark Side.”

“Not unless they have cookies,” Clare said as the door closed behind her. Morholt waited outside as the

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