The Haunted Pendant: A Paranormal Artifacts Cozy Mystery (Paranormal Artifacts Cozy Mysteries Book 1) by Maher Tegan

Author:Maher, Tegan [Maher, Tegan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Magical Words Publishing
Published: 2021-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

I was shaking from the adrenaline, so I took a deep breath, concentrating on slowing my heart as I exhaled slowly then pulled in another lungful.

“What the hell happened back there?” Jake demanded.

“What happened,” Luther growled from the front seat, “is that we got cocky.” He glared at Sybil in the mirror, and she glared back.

“I’m not going to tell you you’re right,” she said, “but in hindsight, we should have captured her and taken her somewhere else or at least secured her as you started to do.” She turned to me and shrugged helplessly. “There were five of us, though, so I thought we could do it quick and dirty, as you kids are fond of saying.”

“Nobody says that,” Eli replied, shooting her a dirty look, “especially when it comes to magic.”

“There weren’t five of us,” Luther said, censure tinting his voice. We were a few streets away from the house, so he slowed down. We didn’t need to draw any more attention to us than we already had. “There were two of us who knew what we were doing and three witches there to learn. You were reckless.”

I was surprised Sybil was letting him talk to her like that, which made me even more curious about their relationship.

She sighed. “I guess I will say it, then. I should have listened to you.”

“I’m normally the king of I-told-you-so,” Jake said, a hint of irritation in his voice, “but that’s not helpful right now. What are we going to do? Where did she go?”

“Well,” Sybil replied, “there wasn’t really anywhere for her to go other than into one of those women. We just need to figure out which one.”

“Fabulous,” I said, crossing my arms. “Considering we don’t even know who they are, that’ll be fun.”

“Well,” Eli said, “I thought of that. I actually got the names of three of them. I told them we may need them as witnesses. I didn’t talk to the two who were standing with you, though I did snap their pictures. And I blurred out the license plate.”

I raised a brow at him. “Impressive! All I did was get the necklace and put my belt around her leg to keep her from bleeding to death, and I’m not even sure if the necklace is relevant anymore.”

Sybil wobbled her hand. “It’s not irrelevant, but I don’t know that it will be helpful, either. You still should probably cleanse it. I imagine Pete will thank you for either returning it or refunding his money.”

“Speaking of Pete,” Jake said, “what are we going to do about him? How are we going to explain this?”

“We’re not,” Luther replied, looking at us in the mirror as he took a right hand turn onto the road that would take us back to Sybil’s. “I altered his memory. Or rather, I wiped it. There wasn’t time for more than that, but at least he’ll be able to say he doesn’t know what happened,” Luther replied, looking at us in the rearview mirror.

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