To Date A Disaster (Southern Sanctuary - book 6) by Jane Cousins

Author:Jane Cousins [Cousins, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Published: 2015-06-17T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

“Business?” Cara shook her head, unimpressed. “You make it sound like some sort of transaction when what you really want is my blood, isn’t it?”

“Yes and…”

“…no.”

Cara rolled her eyes. “Cryptic much?” She decided it would be pushing her luck to add on the word assholes, but she hoped they could tell by her scathing tone that it was implied.

“Perhaps this will clear…”

“…things up for you.” The two brothers nodded in unison.

Cara let out a small gasp of surprise as everything beneath her suddenly shifted. Not an earthquake, the Golem had pulled back the lid of Apep’s sarcophagus a few feet, with her still on it. The rasp of stone grinding against stone echoing around the room.

Eek, it was one thing to be on top of a closed ancient coffin, it was a whole different thing to be front row centre only two feet from the corpse of your mummified dead relative.

She didn’t want to look. She certainly didn’t mean to look, but what else could she do, but look. The lid hadn’t been pulled back very far, just enough to expose the head and shoulders of the desiccated mummified remains kept within. Except… the remains weren’t desiccated at all.

Cara found herself leaning forward for a better look. She was no expert, however, she’d done nothing but research ancient Egypt and death rituals for the past few weeks and it didn’t take an archaeologist to recognise that the mummy in the coffin was for some, as yet unexplained reason, as fresh as… she was guessing the day Apep was laid to rest in it… fascinating. And creepy… definitely creepy. Especially given the bright red fresh stains around where the mummy’s mouth must be, the cloth glistening wetly.

“Is that…” Her mouth felt too dry, she swallowed hard. “Is that fresh blood?” Merda, if this was a horror movie the mummy would stir and sit up about now, thankfully though it remained inert, but she daren’t move her eyes away from it, just in case.

“Yes.” The brothers answered in stereo.

“Whose… whose blood is it?” She frowned as something else in the sarcophagus caught her eye, carefully she leaned forward ever so slightly to get a better look. If she fell in there, she very much doubted she’d be emerging with her sanity left intact.

Around the mummy’s throat was a thick cord of what looked like barbed wire, it was jet black and seemed to pulse with some kind of power, and it wasn’t just around the mummy’s neck, she glimpsed another similar band encasing the mummy’s upper body and it wasn’t metal she realised… it was living, like a thorny vine. “And what’s the vine for?” She tossed her head back to glare at Sek and Mot, for some reason no longer afraid of looking away from the mummy’s shockingly fresh remains, thanking God all those cloth bindings kept the reality of the corpse itself hidden from her gaze.

“As you can see…”

“…we don’t need your blood.” The two grinned.

“Why are you feeding… him? Whose blood is it?” Cara’s fingernails pressed hard into her palms.

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