To Kiss A Kringle (Southern Sanctuary Book 13) by Jane Cousins

Author:Jane Cousins [Cousins, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2019-12-06T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

The buzz of the alarm broke Cullen’s concentration. He blinked, arching his back, wincing as several muscles protested the long bout of sitting. Crap. It was his personal calendar. Reminding him that in twenty minutes he was due at the main branch of the Library to supervise the Krell Spawn Campaign Re-enactment Society.

It was probably a good thing, besides two power cat naps he’d been working on nothing but trawling through footage from the school party for the last thirty-six hours. Not just everything his own four cameras had recorded but all of his family present had been secretly filming as well.

The footage was both intriguing and frustrating. Trying to line up multiple feeds so the events unfolded in real time was something he was very good at. Problem was, the content. Yes, there were gaps. No sound. But his powers were having a hard time collating what he was seeing. He suspected magic was to blame. Something he had a hard time factoring into his conclusions because it often required too much guesswork for his fact loving nature to abide.

Grrr, stomping into the fully kitted out bathroom attached to his hi-tech lair, he shed his clothes and stepped into the shower. Dunking his head under the cool water, trying to shake off both the cobwebs and the after affects of sitting still for so long.

Just as intriguing and frustrating were the British media reports surrounding the event. Seven deaths had been reported. It was deemed a tragedy. General consensus seeming to be that a stray electrical spark had set the Christmas decorations alight, resulting in a stampede for the exits. Even the fire marshal’s initial report, accessed by one of Cullen’s cousins positioned high up in the Metropolitan Police, reported the same conclusions.

No mention of firearms.

One of his Aunts had snuck into the morgue and taken copies of the coroner’s initial findings and emailed them on. Looking at the photos of the victims and then at the reports, nothing was making sense. The official documents clearly stated the coroner attributed the cause of death for all seven victims to be crush related, incurred as a result of the stampede.

But the photos, they told a different story. Yes, two had obviously been crushed or stomped on. But four of the victims were all but shredded. Throats torn out in two cases. A heart missing in the third. And the fourth looked like he’d put up a fight, his face and arms striped with cuts. With four strange deep puncture wounds in his chest. The fifth victim had incurred only four shallow cuts across his face, it was the two neat gunshots in his heart that had done him in.

He had to be the man Mara shot. Two bullets travelling through the man’s back and puncturing his heart. Text book. So she hadn’t identified Cullen after all. This man was her intended target all along.

Yet, the coroner reported the cause of death for all the victims as accidental.

Out of the

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