Searchlight--By My Light, Book 4 by Mac Flynn

Author:Mac Flynn [Flynn, Mac]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crescent Moon Studios, Inc.
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

7

A groan beside me forced my attention back to Fox. He forced open his eyes and tried to sit up, but his strength failed him and he fell back to the floor. When he spoke it was in a hoarse whisper. "What happened?"

Emery walked up to stand beside me and knelt on one knee. "She has escaped with her plate."

"How did it happen?" Fox asked as he tried, and succeeded, in sitting up.

"I gave it to her," I told him.

He frowned up at me. "That was a very foolish thing to do."

I glared right back at him. "She was killing you, and I wasn't going to let you die for some stupid plate."

The hardness in his expression softened. His gaze fell on the shattered scale close beside us. "She attacked you."

I nodded. "Yeah, but Emery scared her off with the witches."

His eyes flickered to Emery. "What took you?" he asked his servant

"You must excuse me, sir, but the elevator wouldn't move any faster," Emery apologized.

I looked to my right and across the room. There were only three faint paint stains on the carpet. I tilted my head back and studied the ceiling. The witches had returned to their places around the cauldron.

I returned my attention to the men at my side and looked from one to the other. "Somebody mind telling me how they go out of that painting?"

"It was a failsafe in case someone should get past the initial security," Emery explained to me.

I snorted. "I think you need a better initial security system.".

"There is no better system in the world than what I have," Fox argued as he struggled to his feet. Emery moved to help him, but Fox held up his hand and stood on his own power.

"So how come it didn't go off when I walked inside with that necklace?" I asked him.

"The system is designed to stop any unwelcome guests. You were invited into the room, and all that you carried with you was also invited," he told me.

"How the hell did she use those pearls to escape, anyway? I thought she couldn't leave the pond," I pointed out.

"The pearls were doubtless not real ones, but created through force with the sands of the pond. Thus she could use them as a gateway in order to steal the plate," Fox explained as he swept his eyes over the room with its shattered glass and toppled artifacts. "You appear to have found more trouble for us again."

I glared up him. "I'm the one who found trouble?" I hissed as I stabbed a sharp fingernail against his shirt. "If you hadn't pissed off all these mythical creatures than I wouldn't be falling for their tricks, would I?"

He grabbed my wrist and caught my gaze in his own. "If you don't mind, I would rather not lose another shirt this evening. As for our current situation, you are too trusting."

"Might I suggest we save the blame for a later time?" Emery spoke up.

Fox pursed his lips. "You're right. We have to hurry or she may learn of its existence.

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