Something Witchy This Way Comes: A Jolie Wilkins Novel by H. P. Mallory

Author:H. P. Mallory
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal, Fiction
ISBN: 0345531582
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2012-09-24T21:00:00+00:00

I wasn’t sure what I expected when I took Luce’s hand, but as soon as I did, I felt a swoosh of air against my face, which caused me to close my eyes. When I opened them, I was no longer in the guesthouse of Kinloch Kirk. Where was I? I had no clue.

That thought scared me to death. No one would know what had happened to me or where I was. At least I’d been able to tell Rand that a Lurker came for me. How that information would benefit me, I didn’t know, but it seemed a step in the right direction.

Don’t focus on that now, Jolie, I chided myself. Focus on surviving!

I took a deep breath and realized I was bent over on my hands and knees. There was green grass below me, which told me I was outside. I glanced to my right, taking in what seemed to be miles of chain-link fence topped with two rows of barbed wire. On both sides of the fencing there was a perimeter of pine trees that towered in the air above me, their dark green contrasting against the brilliant blue of the sky.

I sat back on my haunches and craned my neck to the left, where I noticed that the chain-link fencing ended in a little white tollbooth (or guardhouse) type structure. Was I in a prison? An unpaved road led up to it and disappeared into an alcove of trees. Standing in front of the tollbooth structure was a man dressed in a gray uniform, armed with what looked like an Uzi. Before him were orange traffic cones, lined up in front of roadblocks that were three feet high and wide. The obstacles would force any persistent drivers through a minicourse in order to slow them down. Talk about high security. Wherever I was, it was apparent that outsiders were meant to stay out and insiders were meant to stay in. Either way, it didn’t leave me with the warm fuzzies.

“Welcome to our training center,” Luce said, and shock whirred through me at the thought that he had been standing just behind me the entire time. I’m not sure why I was so surprised, considering he was the one who brought me here. He offered his hand to me, his eyes gentle, echoing the same sentiment behind his easy smile. I shook my head, righting myself as I stood up and took a deep breath. The pine scent of my surroundings reminded me of Christmas.

Then I remembered everything. How could Bella have attacked me with a power that should never have been hers? “What happened to Bella?” I demanded, feeling sick to my stomach as I remembered her sightless eyes.

Luce shrugged as if it were of no consequence to him, and started walking away from the barbed wire–topped fence. I had no choice but to follow him. Once I caught up, he turned to face me. “You killed her,” he said, “but you did so purely in self-defense.

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