The Hunted: Hunter Circles Series Book One by Jessica Gunn

Author:Jessica Gunn [Gunn, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-18T16:00:00+00:00

We let Krystin rest for most of the day after she finally woke up. Around two in the afternoon, when she hadn’t yet come out of her room, Rachel forced a plate into my hands.

I looked down at the sandwich. “What’s this for?”

She looked at me, deadpan. “Bring it up to her. Figure out what’s going on in her head.”

I wanted to tell her that nothing was wrong in Krystin’s head. She probably felt too exhausted to move. But the way Rachel’s stare pinned me to the wall told me I was wrong. “Fine. Okay. I’m going.”

Rachel smiled. “Good. We’ll be waiting for you guys down here.”

I rolled my eyes at my cousin, then turned for the stairs. At the door to Krystin’s room, I stopped and listened. She wasn’t moving around inside, but a lavender scent floated through the space between the floor and door.

I knocked. “Krystin?”

A few moments passed before she answered. “Yeah?”

“Can I come in? I brought you lunch.”

Another couple beats passed. “Sure.”

I released a deep breath of tension and turned the knob.

Krystin sat cross-legged on the floor in front of a small table filled with purple candles, amethyst stones, and burning incense. A clear crystal quartz rested in her palm. “Hey.”

Looking around at her setup, I said, “Hey. I’m sorry if I’m… interrupting something.”

“You’re not.” She set the quartz crystal on the table. “I’m trying to clear my head.”

My brow creased. “Are you still feeling ill?”

“Not in so many words,” she said. “His magik’s gone from my system, but it’s still a shock to my own power. I don’t think he was trying to kill me. Giyano knew what he was doing.”

“Which was?”

She looked down at the quartz for a few long moments, then back up at me. “Giyano thinks the power inside me—the one that’s supposed to save Alzan—is a weapon the Powers want to use for themselves—in ways beyond the prophecy. He swears the power isn’t as based in Good as the Powers would have us—me—believe.”

I closed the door behind me and brought the sandwich to her. “And what do you believe?”

She chuckled once, bitter. “Honestly? I think the Powers were dumb when they handed the responsibility of saving their precious, tide-of-war-turning city to me. I might have been raised on the straight and narrow path of becoming a top Hunter and Blackwood witch, but you’ve known me for less than a week and know that’s not exactly something I’m capable of continuing on with.” She shook her head. “I may fight for the side of Good, but I’m not one of them.”

Oh boy. Instead of talking right away and risking shoving my foot down my throat, I sat on the floor opposite her. “I never said you weren’t a good Hunter.”

“I’m a fantastic Hunter,” she said. “That’s not the problem.”

Then what was? If she didn’t want to use her prophesied power for Evil, she didn’t have to. No one, not even Giyano, was holding a knife to her throat over it. It was

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