The Cloak's Shadow by Elle Beauregard

Author:Elle Beauregard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elle Beauregard
Published: 2020-10-05T16:00:00+00:00

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Callum wasn't sure what, exactly, he'd done to deserve it, but by the end of the day on Friday, he still hadn't seen even the edge of that Shadow.

No looming, oppressive presence. No threatening cold.

Sure, the spirit of a woman had traveled alongside him as he'd walked to bring Scott a coffee earlier in the day, and an old man had tried to talk to him through his entire walk back home, but that he could handle. Rhia hadn't even batted an eye.

He'd begun to realize that the Shadow's presence was part of why he'd been a brooding, emo mess lately. Well, that, and the knowledge that he'd likely burned Zander with his response to her text.

Home alone, and with Scott planning to work late, Callum rested his head back against the sofa cushions and stared at his living room ceiling.

He had work to do, but he wasn't behind on anything. There was housework to do, but nothing urgent. No, there wasn't anything he needed to do—except make things right with Zander. If he hadn't had his head up his ass the past however-many-days, he would have tried to fix things sooner even if the Shadow had still been lurking and he couldn't have made-up with her completely.

But now the Shadow wasn't lurking. So that meant maybe a more thorough kind of make-up was possible... assuming she was interested.

He sat up and pulled his phone from the back pocket of his blue board shorts. He went to write her a text but stopped before he'd typed the first word.

Texting was not the way to go. Not now, after a week of not speaking.

Wow. Had it been a week ago that they'd made-out at the library? Had slept together in his bed? It felt at once like yesterday, and a lifetime ago.

No, texting wasn't the right thing to do here, he thought, sliding the phone back into his pocket.

He sat forward and looked to Rhia, resting peacefully at his feet. She must have been comfortable because she raised her eyes to him when he looked at her, but didn't lift her head.

"You wanna go on a wild goose chase with me?" he asked her.

Her tail thumped the ground, her blue eyes bright—but she still didn't sit up.

He tried again. "You wanna help me find Zander?"

Rhia's head was off the floor in a heartbeat, quickly followed by the rest of her.

She trotted to the front door and turned back expectantly, stepping her big paws in place and smacking her mouth so she looked like she was laughing.

Callum gave a low chuckle as he pushed himself up from the sofa. "Glad to know you like her." As if he hadn't already known.

It was early evening. Too early for night-out crowds, but too late for the coming-home-from-work rush as he rode the foot ferry. He walked the ten blocks to Zander’s apartment with Rhia by his side, figuring he'd try there first. Then maybe the bar where they'd met, in case she'd been suckered into another co-worker happy hour.

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