Rogue Reaper by B.L. Newport

Author:B.L. Newport [Newport, B.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-05-01T05:00:00+00:00

“She’s my assistant,” John Blackwick sighed heavily, “and she’s gone to face him.”

24: The Chase Begins

Belinda stood in the middle of the room nervously. Brigit had escorted her back to the apartment where Seamus had kidnapped Maggie and subsequently disappeared. Brigit had not spoken since her request that Belinda join her at the café. Even then, that exchange of words had happened mostly with Mama Dee. The silence was deafening to Belinda. She could hear her mentor’s anger still roaring through it. She wished Brigit would say something, even if it was mean and berating. At least, it would drown out the mocking guilt that was laughing at her now.

“I think it was here,” Belinda said nervously as she stepped to the spot where Seamus had been standing when he had seized Maggie by the hair.

Belinda closed her eyes against the memory of that image as she raised her hand and began to feel through the air. Slowly, her fingers extended out and began to search for the node that would indicate the seam Seamus had found to tear open the door of his escape. She had seen him reach out above his shoulder. He was taller than she was. She had watched him find it so quickly. She was so nervous. The added pressure of Brigit’s dark eyes boring a hole through her didn’t help either.

Suddenly, she felt it. A sigh of hopeful relief escaped her as she pinched the invisible node between her fingers and tugged. The seam gave way slightly. Belinda pinched at it again and pulled harder. Her effort was rewarded with a tear wide enough to accommodate a passing elephant. Hoping to see a reaction of some sort, she turned her bright blue eyes to Brigit; but her mentor remained silent and stone faced. Belinda felt her heart return to the pool of guilt it had been swimming in. Brigit had exactly two things on her mind and Belinda knew there was no room for anything more.

“This is it,” Belinda announced.

She remembered smelling the fresh air that had blown through the tear Seamus had created. Although her sight had been focused on Maggie at the time of its original opening, Belinda’s sense of smell had detected the scent of pine and crumbling rock emanating through the portal. She was sure she remembered seeing a glimpse of such before Seamus had pushed her back from the portal.

Brigit finally moved from where she had been patiently waiting for the girl to accomplish what she had said she could do. She went to stand next to the nervous young woman and peered through the opening to the landscape on the other side. It was relatively barren and grey. Her eyes searched for any sign of Seamus and Maggie as she fought to ignore the nervous energy emanating from Belinda Yaris.

“How can you be sure?” she asked. Belinda seemed to perk up at the sound of Brigit’s voice.

“My nose never lies,” Belinda replied proudly. Brigit looked at the young woman solemnly.

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