The Witches of the Dark Power by Gabriella Lepore

Author:Gabriella Lepore [Lepore, Gabriella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oftomes Publishing
Published: 2019-12-12T22:00:00+00:00

As Mia stumbled into the bedchamber, Dino leaped to the door to greet her.

‘You’re awake!’ he exclaimed. ‘Amos said you’d be out cold for hours.’

‘They all think Colt’s guilty!’ Mia ranted breathlessly.

Dino pulled a face. ‘Uh . . . Mia, he is guilty.’

‘You should hear the things they’re saying about him!’ Mia went on as though Dino hadn’t spoken. ‘They’re comparing him to Tol!’

Dino’s brow creased. ‘Weren’t you doing exactly the same thing a couple of hours ago?’

‘That’s different. I was mad at him then.’ She threw up her hands. ‘Anyway, you were the one who said he wasn’t like Tol.’

‘Yeah, well, I’ve had a colossal change of heart.’ He folded his arms. ‘Wait,’ he backtracked, ‘so you find out he’s trying to kill you, and suddenly you’re not angry at him anymore? That’s seriously messed up, sister.’

‘He’s not trying to kill me!’

‘Oh, okay,’ Dino scoffed. ‘It’s just a coincidence that he keeps the book with the spell to kill you in his room, marked to the exact killing page.’

‘You know what, Dino?’ she began, floundering to retaliate, ‘people in glass castles shouldn’t throw stones.’

He became rigid. ‘What’s that supposed to mean?’

‘Hmm.’ She tapped her pursed lips with her index finger, pretending to think. ‘Now, let me see. Who else around here has tried to kill me recently?’

Dino’s jaw dropped and a look of anguish crossed his face. ‘That’s not fair! I was under the influence of Tol.’

‘I know you were,’ said Mia fervently. ‘Because I know you—and I know you wouldn’t kill me. Neither would Colt.’

‘But I’m your brother. He’s a Hunter.’

Mia squeezed her eyes shut. ‘Dino, please, you have to believe me. This is a mistake. I’d bet my life on it.’

He raised an eyebrow. ‘Interesting choice of words.’

‘Listen to me,’ she appealed, clutching at her heart. ‘Someone out there wants to kill me. But it’s not Colt.’

‘Then who it is?’

‘I don’t know.’ Mia knotted her fingers through her hair and looked helplessly to the dark night beyond the bedchamber window. ‘Maybe it’s Tol.’

‘Tol’s dead,’ Dino reminded her in a clipped voice.

‘Then maybe it’s . . . Demetrius!’

Dino ran his hands across his face. ‘You can’t go accusing people just because you don’t like them.’

‘Hey,’ she refuted, ‘I like Demetrius. Unless he’s trying to kill me, in which case I hate him.’

Dino paced across the room and sank onto his bed. ‘If only you could use that same logic towards the real culprit. Colt.’

Mia pretended not to hear. ‘We have to find him,’ she decided. ‘Where do you think they’ve taken him?’

Dino stared at her, wide-eyed. ‘We do not have to find him. Actually, we have to do the exact opposite and hope to hell he doesn’t find us.’

‘We can’t just sit here doing nothing!’ Mia cried.

‘We can.’

‘And what about Colt? What if he’s innocent, and the real culprit is still roaming free?’

‘Relax,’ said Dino, holding up his hands. ‘There’s nothing you can do right now, anyway. Colt is long gone, and Amos and the Hunters will be guarding this place like Fort Knox after everything that went down tonight.

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