The Truth Spell by Anita Oh

Author:Anita Oh [Oh, Anita]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BluA
Published: 2015-11-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

It was a dark time for me. The darkest time of my whole life, maybe. Well, maybe not my whole life, but to have all I’d ever wanted offered to me and then snatched away, it did funny things to my mind. I went back to the house to curl up in bed. It was just too sad, thinking about all that money and how Tennyson Wilde obviously didn’t appreciate it, would just hand it over with no thought or feeling. It should go to a home where it would be loved. That money really should be mine. I would do right by it.

I didn’t get out of bed for days, except for bathroom breaks. It wasn’t just the money but my stomach felt awful as well. It went on too long to just be from too many dumplings. I had no will to eat, no will to do anything. I didn’t know if it was a chemical or a virus or a spell but I couldn’t bring myself to care. What could I do? I’d done all that investigating and it had been for nothing.

Not nothing, whispered a buried, resilient part of my brain. You know some stuff.

I blinked my eyes open. It was daylight. I didn’t know which day, but it seemed like afternoon. I smelled bad. The room smelled bad. I was hungry. Things were looking up.

I knew some stuff. I was sure that it was Mr. Corbett. Maybe, just maybe, if I got him to stop it, I could negotiate with Tennyson Wilde. I might even be able to get visitation rights with Sam thrown in, which was better than what I currently had, which was diddly with a side of squat. I’d go on an epic witch hunt, and then everything would be coming up Lucy.

I planned it all out while I showered. I’d take the information I had to Tennyson Wilde and try to open up negotiations. I didn’t have any concrete proof of anything, not enough for him to hand over the cash, but I could get his thoughts. He probably had some sort of secret police at his disposal to investigate Mr. Corbett and take him down. Or at least the polo team. I wasn’t greedy, if it was just the information, I didn’t need the whole briefcase of money. Though, if he wanted to give it away, I would take very good care of it and love it like my own flesh and blood.

It was later than I thought by the time I got outside, night falling quickly as it seemed to here. I hurried to the Golden House and swiped the card that Nikolai had given me over the sensor.

“Place your index finger on the sensor,” the voice said, but after it scanned me, it said, “Lucy O’Connor, Red House. Access: denied.”

I should’ve expected as much, but it was still a setback. I pressed the intercom button by the gate impatiently. It was growing cold and my belly still felt weird, and I wanted to be back in my bed.

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