Secrets and Ruin (Jacky Leon Book 9) by K.N. Banet

Author:K.N. Banet [Banet, K.N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-03-23T16:00:00+00:00

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CHAPTER TWENTY

I wasn’t sure how long we walked before I thought to check the time. I brought my phone, not expecting service, but it had other uses. Trying several times to get it to wake up, a black screen stared at me until it summoned the power to tell me it had no power. Fear and panic raced through me as I considered what that could mean.

“Landon, check your phone,” I ordered, stopping on the path. As much as I wanted not to care and press on without paying it any mind, I knew better. “Mine is dead.”

“Okay…” He gave me a questioning look, stopping as well, and pulled out his phone. As the expected emotions ran over Landon from frustration to anger, I knew we had a problem. “How the fuck?”

“Yeah,” I said, nodding as I swung my bag down and went to a knee with it. “Our phones are dead, but neither of us has touched them since we landed. In fact, I had mine charging in my bag for some time.” I opened the bag and started looking for all the electronics, pulling out everything that used a battery.

“I have a spare charger.” He didn’t go to a knee like me, but he started shuffling through his as well. “Fuck,” he snarled. I looked up to see how he plugged his phone into the portable charging battery. “It’s dead, too.”

I tried a flashlight, and nothing happened. I tried the spares from his bag. Landon tested his satellite phone, which I hadn’t known about, and shook his head when it failed.

“It must be something about this place or something in it.” I said, believing it was the only answer.

“You’re probably right. It’s the place, a space in two planes of existence simultaneously. It probably does all sorts of weird stuff to everything that stays too long. Our electronics are just a victim of this place.” Landon paused for a second, so I waited for him to finish the thought, figuring I could guess what it would be. “Or something in this place. I don’t know what sort of magic every fae can do. I don’t think anyone does.”

“You’re not wrong, but we would have smelled something doing any more magic. We would have caught the presence of a nearby creature.”

“Did you hear anything?”

“Nothing close enough to put me on edge. Didn’t hear any sort of whispered spell, just rustling and moving about, but that could have been small animals. If something was closer than twenty or thirty feet, I would have said something.”

“I didn’t smell any increase in magic, like a release for a spell cast or something,” Landon said, helping me put everything away. “I refuse to think every witch or fae in the world knows that trick, whatever the hell Emma’s family in Dallas did.”

“Agreed, especially out here. This place feels… isolated from the rest of the world. Their disregard for King Brion makes me wonder if fae royalty even come out here or know about it.

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