The Unhallowed (Book Five in the Witch Hunter Saga) by Nicole R. Taylor

Author:Nicole R. Taylor [Taylor, Nicole R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nicole R. Taylor

Chapter 11

Gabby rolled her suitcase up the path that threaded through the front garden of the Hampstead mansion.

Her mansion. It still felt weird saying that considering a few months ago, she only had a few hundred dollars in her savings account and a dead-end job at a Realtor’s office in a tiny town in backwater Louisiana, USA. Now she was the multi-millionaire heiress to her dead vampire boyfriend’s fortune that had been amassed over two thousand years. Try to explain that one to the IRS.

It might’ve been jet lag after the nightmare flight she’d just gotten off, but she felt the tingle of unfamiliar magic and shivered. Staring up at the house, she narrowed her eyes, and the image shimmered slightly. Yes, something was definitely there, and it wasn’t her magic. It made her skin tingle like she had pins and needles all over the longer she tried to feel it out.

Further prodding revealed it to be some kind of barrier, but what for? Gabby could feel the web all around the mansion, its tendrils gripping tight to the facade, closing over windows and doors.

Letting go of her suitcase, she turned around and peered at the garden. She felt it there, too. There were wards around the perimeter of the property, but they were clumsy, like whoever had cast them had been a novice or hadn’t really cared. What the hell had Nye been doing while she was away?

Grasping the handle of her suitcase once more, she rolled it up the remainder of the path and stuck her key into the front door. Unlocking it, she dragged her luggage into the foyer.

“Nye!” she yelled, her voice echoing through the cavernous house. “You’d better be here!”

“Gabby?”

At the sound of a familiar voice, she glanced at the stairs where an excited Isobel was galloping down two at a time. She was the last person Gabby was expecting to see, especially since Alex was still in Ashburton.

“Izzy?” she asked, her eyebrows rising in surprise. “What are you doing here?”

Isobel bounded across the foyer and threw her arms around her neck, hugging her tightly. It was a much warmer welcome than Nye would’ve given her, that’s for sure.

“It’s so good to see you,” Isobel murmured, sounding tired. “I thought I’d never get out of here.”

“Get out of here?” Gabby pulled away and frowned. “What do you mean?”

Isobel’s expression fell, and she glanced over her shoulder. “He didn’t tell you, did he?”

Gabby’s eyes narrowed as the pieces began to fall into place. “Tell me what?”

Her friend shuffled nervously, unsure of what to say, and Gabby began to seethe. Of all the stupid things that vampire could do…

“Nye!” she screeched, stepping around Isobel and thundering up the stairs.

Shoving into the study, she found Nye perched on top of the desk, waiting for her imminent arrival.

“What is Isobel doing here?” she demanded.

He gazed at her for a moment and shrugged. Something fishy was going on here, and she was going to get it out of the vampire even if she had to make a few of his brain cells pop.

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