Tread Lightly by Catherine Lane

Author:Catherine Lane [Lane, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783955337728
Publisher: Ylva Publishing
Published: 2017-02-07T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

One Day Earlier

Heavy knocking pounded into Claire’s dreams. Someone was hammering on the front door super hard. “Claire? Level-one-plus? Are you in there? Can you hear me?”

She jumped out of bed. “Hang on. Hang on. Who is it?”

“Hugo. Level-ten-minus.” The apprentice who had taken Frankie. Was something wrong?

Claire hurried through the living room, rubbing the sleep from her eyes. From the moment she had said good night to Tamiel and her head hit the pillow, she had, surprisingly, slept like a baby, dead to the world. She looked around. Had the angel come back?

No, the living room was empty. Her heart sank, but it was probably better if Tamiel wasn’t by her side when she greeted the apprentice.

Hugo shuffled in the doorway, clearly unsure what to do next. “Oh, I’m so sorry, Ms. Claire, were you sleeping?”

“Is everything okay with Frankie?”

“Yes. She’s fine.”

Claire pressed a palm to her heart. “So why are you here?”

“Oh, Juliette has been trying to get a hold of you all morning. Didn’t Carothann tell you?”

“No.” She pulled her wand out from the pocket of magic at her side. She had decided at the last minute last night to keep it with her rather than let it rest in its box. “It’s been acting up lately. I need to get it in to Wand Tech,” she said but silently vowed never to let the FGC touch it again.

“Yeah. She said that must be it. When she couldn’t get a hold of you, she sent me. Get dressed. She’s waiting—” Hugo jumped back, squeezed his eyes shut, and popped them open as he gazed past Claire.

She turned, although she already knew what had startled him.

Once again, Tamiel must have stepped into existence—from out of thin air to two feet away.

“Don’t look at it!” He jerked his head down. “It’s an angel!”

“It’s all right. They’re not like that.” Claire turned to Tamiel and smiled. “You came back?”

“Yes.”

“You know it?” Hugo’s eyes went round as he raised his head and took them both in.

“I do. She’s okay.”

Hugo glanced back and forth between them. “Juliette needs you back at the office.” His tone hardened. “Immediately.”

“No,” Tamiel said, her voice just as steely. “We need to go after Yakum.”

Claire took a deep breath and held it tight. Defending an angel to an apprentice was one thing. Running off with her against a direct order from an FGC operative was something else entirely.

Hugo and Tamiel stared at her, waiting for her decision. She let the panic run its course as her mind coalesced around the only thing that really mattered. What was best for Frankie here? Certainly not falling into Yakum’s claws or sitting in Beverly Hills doing one load of laundry after another or even hiding out at the FGC for the rest of her life. Frankie deserved her happily ever after. But FGC or GA? Status quo or take a chance? The decision could change the rest of her life. She froze as she saw herself going both ways in her mind’s eye.

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