The Secret of Spellshadow Manor 3 by Bella Forrest

Author:Bella Forrest [Forrest, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nightlight
Published: 2017-06-03T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

The familiar sound of a key turning in the lock made Alex’s tired eyes snap toward the door of the grim cell. He had moved back to its center, to give himself more distance if he found himself with the opportunity to bum-rush whoever was on the other side, but the thought stopped dead in its tracks as he saw the figure standing beyond the door. It was not someone he had been expecting.

Siren Mave stood in the hallway, holding a weighty bunch of keys, peering at him over her horn-rimmed spectacles.

“If you’d like to follow me, Mr. Webber,” she instructed. “Peacefully, if at all possible. I’ve had enough of strugglers for one evening.” She flashed Alex a warning look, puckering her overly painted lips in displeasure.

Alex nodded, cautiously following the plump little woman who had waddled on ahead. “What are you doing here?” he asked, still in shock.

“Oh, you know, keeping things interesting. Sometimes I’m here, sometimes I’m there—I go where I am needed,” she replied cheerfully. “Though you have significantly reduced my enrollment duties at Spellshadow Manor. Quite the little scallywag you turned out to be, hm? I knew you were different when you arrived. There was something about you—the rest are always plain as punch, but in you came, and I just knew I’d be seeing you again.” She smiled strangely, readjusting her spectacles as they turned a corner.

“I wouldn’t say I—” Alex began, but Siren Mave cut him off curtly.

“No use denying it, Webber—quite the state you left that place in. I wasn’t sure whether to be impressed or appalled,” she cried. “Mind you, I suppose I do have you to thank for being more part-time now. More time for myself, you know? I always meant to do it, but you’ve done it for me,” she mumbled as they walked through a few more corridors.

Alex had been so surprised to see her that he found he no longer felt the previous trepidation coursing through his body.

As they passed through another set of hallways, he felt a spike of curiosity; it struck him as odd that, along the way, there were so few guards. What was there to stop him from running away? He couldn’t see any walls or barriers either.

“Don’t even contemplate it, Mr. Webber—don’t even begin to think about contemplating it. I may be small, but I can take you down without moving more than my pinky finger,” she warned, somehow preempting his train of thought.

Glancing at her, with her dumpy frame and elaborate spectacles, and her cheeks glowing from too much blush, Alex thought she didn’t look like a typical magical ninja, but there was a confidence in her voice that alarmed him, making him reluctant to test her. A flash in her eyes told him not to dare, and for once he felt he ought to listen.

“Where are the others?” he asked, once all thoughts of escape had ebbed away.

She waved her hand, which twinkled with hefty jeweled rings that seemed much too tight for her chubby fingers.

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