Save My Soul by Zoe Winters

Author:Zoe Winters
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Paranormal
ISBN: 9780981943633
Publisher: Incubooks
Published: 2011-01-31T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Anna reached the coffee shop before she spotted Bitsy and Mimi. The two women turned away like they hadn’t seen her. If she’d known that was all it would take to get rid of the Baker sisters, she would have gotten herself a gaggle of live-in hookers from the start.

As she continued down the sidewalk, a few people looked at her, then away, while others smiled and nodded, some of them giving her a thumbs up. Apparently the sisters had been hard at work making the rounds, and now the town was divided into two factions: those who supported the wearing of matching puce suits, and those who did not. Maybe it would make the paper.

She looked up to see Father Jeffries blazing a rapid trail in her direction, not paying attention to where he was going. She sidestepped quickly, managing to get out of his path just in time. He stopped on a dime and turned back to face her.

“Anna, I’m sorry, I was on my way to your house.”

Frazzled didn’t begin to describe the priest. His previously well-groomed hair shot out in all directions. The robes he wore had deep creases as if he’d slept in them.

“Come with me. I need to speak with you. It’s of a most urgent nature.” His eyes darted from side to side.

When Anna just stood there, he grabbed her by the arm and manhandled her back to the church. Every time she tried to speak, he shushed her. Whatever he had to say was either so sacred or so terrifying that it couldn’t be spoken out in the open.

“Have a seat, please,” he said when they finally reached his office. He shuffled through a pile of books on the desk until he found what he was looking for.

The book was thick with yellowed, uneven pages and bound in dark brown leather with gold leaf detailing on the edges. It looked ominous. Maybe it had come straight from the Vatican. Anna tried to picture Father Jeffries somehow getting the Pope to part with a secret volume they’d held hostage for centuries.

He opened the book to the proper page, and Anna was surprised to find it was painstakingly handwritten in English.

“I’ve been searching for something to help you since I left your house the other day. I happened across this book.”

“How does one happen across a book like this?” Anna asked skeptically.

A sheepish look crossed his face. “Since you know about demons, you may as well know about the rest. It’s not official orthodoxy, though the clergy know. We’ve been sworn to secrecy, but your soul is a trifle more important than my oath.”

Anna braced herself in her seat. She felt like Alice falling down the rabbit hole. This was a whole different Father Jeffries. This was a whole different world. She kept waiting to wake up. Two weeks ago she hadn’t believed in anything. Now there were demons and witches, and priests with weird, magical-looking books.

Father Jeffries sighed. “There is more than one dimension.

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