Succession of Witches (The Familiar Series) by Mead Karen

Author:Mead, Karen [Mead, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2013-06-13T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

Sam dropped his disguise spell for a fraction of a second when the woman at the front desk asked them to sign in, complementing his typical glare with a hint of his eyes’ natural red. Clearly rattled, she sputtered helplessly as Sam and Khalil walked past her to the stairwell. She would probably spend the rest of the day trying to convince herself that she hadn’t seen what she’d clearly seen.

It was sloppy, he knew, but he didn’t have the patience to come up with an excuse to be in the school building—his familiar had been kidnapped. Again.

“I never should have let her keep coming here,” he muttered as he led the way up the steps. “Too many empty hallways, too many opportunities for this to happen.”

“What were you going to do, have her drop out of high school? Babysit her every waking moment?” said Khalil. “Where was that bodyguard of hers, that’s what I’d like to know.”

Sam looked around at the empty second-floor hallway; they were surrounded by hundreds of lockers and a huge banner that said “Go Silverhawks!” According to the teacher’s directions, they still had a little ways to go before they found C-Wing. “I think Miri was here.”

“The vampire?” Khalil whispered, even though the school appeared totally abandoned aside from the woman at the front desk. “What could have taken Cassie that could have fought off a vampire?”

“I don’t know,” said Sam through gritted teeth.

There was silence for a moment as they walked the halls.

“Look, whatever happens, don’t lose it, okay? I’m pretty sure we need this guy alive,” said Khalil.

Sam looked over his shoulder at the other man, then turned back, slightly puzzled. Khalil had said it in his typical flippant manner, but he wondered if he knew the truth of what he spoke. Though he had grimaced when Khalil insisted on coming with him to the school, secretly he was glad he wouldn’t be alone with the teacher who had helped kidnap Cassie.

When they reached the classroom, Sam was ahead of Khalil and got a good look at the room a second before the other man followed him. For a split second, he thought of slamming the door behind him and shielding Khalil from the sight of Miri’s body, but decided against it. Behind him, he heard a muffled curse and a slap as Khalil covered his mouth with his hand.

“Oh my god,” Khalil murmured through his fingers, then a string of obscenities. This time, Sam didn’t scold him for it.

Looking at Miri’s headless form before a row of desks, her new school vest splattered with blood, he felt an absurd urge to pull down that short skirt of hers and see that she was covered properly. Lifting his eyes from the corpse, he focused on the man standing across the room. “You could have mentioned on the phone that she was dead,” he said quietly.

The teacher, who looked entirely too calm lounging against the windows, shook his head. “A vampire is always dead, technically.

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