Serpent's Kiss_A Reverse Harem Urban Fantasy by Tansey Morgan

Author:Tansey Morgan [Morgan, Tansey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Supernal Publishing
Published: 2017-11-29T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

We searched every nook and cranny we could think of, spending almost an hour of our time to make sure we had been as thorough as possible, and came away with three potential notebooks where Henry could have left messages for us to find. The business card was the only real clue we had right now—a card suggesting a place neither Henry nor Covell would have visited without having a real reason to—but there was nothing to do unless we found more information. I had suggested bringing Vik to the apartment, but Leo was having none of it. He didn’t want to say a thing until there was something to say.

Unfortunately for him, that wasn’t how things were going to play out.

I was the one to open the Alexandria’s front door, which meant I was the first person to see the gathering of people in the foyer. For a split second I wondered to myself who all these people were, but it quickly became apparent that these were all residents of the Alexandria, students and mentors. We had arrived so late and left so early this morning that we had not seen anyone other than Madeline, but now the room was packed. Why were there so many students here when we only had five in our German mansion?

Assembled as a group, closer to the door than anyone else moving through the foyer, were Vikram, Liam, Dante, Raph, the Keeper, and Madeline, looking as though they were deep in conversation. When I opened the door, they all turned on me in unison. By the way they were staring at me, I thought something terrible had happened—thought maybe someone had died in the time since we had been gone, but then I looked at Dante, and I knew.

I knew what he had done.

Leo came into the mansion, slipping past me, and it took Vik all of half a second to round on him, veins tight at the neck, eyes filled with venom. “You,” he said, “Why the hell didn’t you tell me about Henry?”

Vik’s outburst gave Leo pause, and he stood frozen for a moment, a few feet into the mansion. But Leo wasn’t the kind of guy to put his hands up and act like he didn’t know what Vik was talking about. Leo was a bull who charged headlong into confrontations with his head low and his horns ready to impale anyone stupid enough to get in his way.

Right now, that person was Vik.

“So,” Leo said, “You found out. Which one of you was the one who spoke?”

I felt that familiar bubbling in the pit of my stomach, the one I usually identified as the thing that warned me I was about to do something seriously not good for my own health.

“It was me,” Dante said, stepping forward.

“Actually, I did,” I said, moving further into the mansion and coming up beside Vik. “I heard you and Madeline talking in the hallway last night, then I went and told Dante.”

“Perfect,” Leo said, “My own student spies on me and then runs to Dante to tell him what she’s learned.

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