Strength of Desire (Vesperwood Academy: Incubus Book 2) by Spencer Spears

Author:Spencer Spears [Spears, Spencer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2025-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

11

NOAH

The problem with snooping is that if you don’t have the right temperament for it, you either drive yourself crazy or you get caught. Or, in my case, probably both.

I talked to Sheridan and Teresa after talking with Autumn and Hans, though my attempts at ‘subtle’ communication didn’t net anything useful. Sheridan was an old bore, pompous and puffed up and in love with the sound of his voice. It was impossible to get out of any conversation with him in under thirty minutes, and equally impossible to direct it to anything helpful. Teresa was perfectly polite—and as hard and unyielding as a brick wall. It was impossible to get any information out of her that she didn’t want to give.

The only way I could have gotten something useful out of either of them would have been to provoke them directly, letting them know Hans had thrown them under the bus. But I didn’t want to start a chain of accusations among the faculty. Isaac had asked me to be discreet, after all.

So I decided the next best thing would be searching their rooms. Back in my bounty-hunting days, I’d learned that even the best liars in the world often left evidence lying around in quarters they thought were secure. But getting into everyone’s rooms presented challenges of its own.

Most student rooms at Vesperwood had no locks—at least, not the ones in the main parts of the manor. I wasn’t sure about the ones inside the havens. But faculty rooms always had locks, even if the faculty member didn’t live in their haven’s official quarters. My own cabin had two stout locks on the outside, and a bar I could slide into place across the door from the inside. You could never be too careful.

A lot of professors warded their rooms in addition to locking them. What they were afraid of, exactly, was beyond me. Most of them didn’t have the kind of past that I had. Maybe they just worried about the prying eyes of the more adventurous upperclassman.

I couldn’t be sure if any of the wardkeepers had warded their own rooms, but it would be safest to assume they had, which was going to make this even more difficult. To make matters worse, Hans and Autumn lived in Harvest and Hearth’s headquarters respectively, and both those havens could only be entered with an affiliated student or faculty member.

The same was true for Hunt Haven, which was located on the lower level of the manor. You could only gain access if a Hunter let you in. Heal and Hex, the other two havens in the manor, were open admittance. Heal let anyone enter because they wanted to project an aura of welcome and safety. I wasn’t sure why Hex was open access. Maybe they just thought they were invulnerable.

Hex Haven was on the third floor of the manor. They had an entire wing to themselves, and you couldn’t miss the entrance. The arched opening was worked in silver and gold, with the crossed wands and stars of Hex inlaid in rubies every foot or so.

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