The Christmas Bones (Jake & Dean Investigations Book 1) by Richard Amos

Author:Richard Amos [Amos , Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-28T16:00:00+00:00

Lou was still in bed by the time nine o’clock rolled up. I was giving her ten more minutes, then going in there.

I was dressed, standing at my living room window, watching the tree Tessa had hidden behind.

She wasn’t there. People and bikes went up and down both sides of the canal. St. Nicholas Day Eve was not a public holiday, but we’d made a point of having two days off for family time. At least we were trying too, me still holding onto that fragile hope that we could have that once Dean came home.

Pathetic wishful thinking. Tessa was the new shit, and this case of Mrs. Visser was already interfering with our plans.

I’d found Tessa online. Tessa Ricci—an Italian name. The details about her online said she was from Rome.

Tessa was part of the Conclave. She’d given speeches at conferences about the erosion of family values, and the negative impact of magic on the young. According to her vitriolic mind in one video, the use of magic was the first step toward absolute corruption. Magic was a glorious entity to any weak human mind, she’d said, especially those who did not have the Lord in their heart. Magic needed to be eradicated from society, she’d prattled on, needing to be bound in those born with it before more children could be dragged down the road of witchcraft and sin. How she was actually going to achieve binding magic wasn’t something she’d mentioned. It took magic to bind magic.

She was utterly clueless but believed she had the right to cast judgment.

I clicked play on another video I had of her on my phone. This one was a speech at yet another Conclave conference, taking place in London. It was terrifying how packed the auditorium was.

“The existence of werewolves,” she said, “is spitting in the eye of Him. God did not make these creatures; man did with its science and experiments. Do not believe what the sinners tell you, that God made us all in His eyes. He did not. Magic is evil, of Satan and man. God would not suffer a human to become a beast. That is not in His pure vision, in how He made the world. A wolf is a wolf; a man is a man. Science and Satan. Say it with me! Science and Satan!”

The crowd said it with her and cheered. The blend of science and the devil was commonplace in Conclave doctrine when explaining the supernatural world now.

Once everyone had settled down after their cheering, Tessa carried on. “These abominations must be purged. There is no saving them, no binding them. The filthy magic within them cannot be tamed.”

Bullshit. Ninety percent of wolves were born with their werewolf gene, and they pretty much had a handle on their other nature from the start. Werewolves weren’t out of control monsters at all.

“They will change when the moon is full, hunt down our children.”

I waited for the evidence of werewolves eating kids. Nothing was mentioned, just the excitement of the crowd.

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