The Accidental Alchemist by Pandian Gigi

Author:Pandian, Gigi [Pandian, Gigi]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Mystery & Detective, Paranormal, Fiction, Literary, Fantasy, Alchemy, Supernatural, Women Sleuths, Thrillers
ISBN: 0738741841
Publisher: MIDNIGHT INK
Published: 2015-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-ONE

I WAS STARTLED FROM my thoughts by two people sitting down at the table next to me. Olivia placed two steaming mugs on the tree ring table top and tossed her red shawl over her shoulder as she sat down. Ivan sat down next to her, gave me a friendly nod, and buried his scruffy, haggard face in a book with Cyrillic text.

“That poor boy,” Olivia said, shaking her head as she watched Max depart.

“I don’t think his injury is too bad,” I said. “He’ll be fine.”

Olivia barked a laugh. “You are quite dense for a smart young woman.”

“What do you mean?” I was fairly certain I knew what she was going to say: that Max believed I was a suspect.

“He knows.”

“Knows what? I didn’t have anything to do with the crimes—”

She laughed again. “Not that. I’m talking about your French boyfriend.”

“I don’t—” I began, but realized I had to keep up the lie. One little lie to protect Dorian … I should have known people beyond Brixton and his friends would hear about what I told them.

“Why would Max care if I happen to have a French friend?”

Ivan sighed and shook his head. His tired eyes and unkempt beard and hair didn’t match his tailored wool suit.

“You should go after him,” Olivia said with the first genuinely warm smile I’d seen.

She was right. I stood up and went after Max. When I reached the sidewalk, there was no sign of him. I closed my eyes for a moment. Running after him had been a stupid idea anyway. What would I have said to him if I’d caught up with him? Told him I wanted to push all thoughts of poison and murder from my mind and sit down with him and talk about his apothecary grandparents and the tea he grew? That was only a fantasy.

Back to reality, I hurried home. I needed to hide the stolen vial. Now that Max was on leave and a new detective on the case, there was no way I could entertain the notion of telling anyone what I’d learned. I hadn’t even figured out how I was going to tell Max. Instead of knowing more, I knew less than I had before. I hadn’t learned more about Charles Macraith. I hadn’t identified the exact makeup of the poison. I hadn’t gotten any closer to figuring out who had killed Charles Macraith, stolen Dorian’s book, and was trying to frame Blue Sky.

The only thing I’d learned was that one of the key components of the poison was the most important element to an alchemist.

I had more questions than I knew what to do with. Had Dorian hidden out in my crate as he’d told me, only emerging when I opened the box? I believed him to be trustworthy from what I’d seen of him and from what he did for me years ago in Paris. But what other explanation was there for what Max saw? Could there be more creatures like Dorian out

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