Warlock For Hire: Arcane Inc. Book 1 by Sean Stone

Author:Sean Stone [Stone, Sean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-05-25T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Ashley flew into full-on panic mode when I told her that the magic was gone. She was pacing frantically. Words were spilling out of her mouth at an alarming rate, but I didn’t hear any of them, not properly. I was momentarily gone. There are two types of people when it comes to panicking; those that go into a frenzy and those that seem to shut down. I’m the latter. I stood perfectly still, staring at the space where the magic should have been. At first, I was actually shut down. My mind was blank and it felt like I was going to float up out of my body and leave everything behind. Then somewhere inside me, someone pressed reset and the systems whirred to life.

“Calm down,” I said quietly, returning to my senses yet.

“Calm down? How can I fucking calm down? We need that magic or Myers is going to kill my mother!” she shouted.

“Shut up,” I said more firmly and she did. “I’ll get the magic back.” I already had an idea where it had gone, or rather who had taken.

“How?”

“I just need to find the person who took it,” I said. I walked over to the shelves to see if there was any evidence of the intruder. There was nothing. “A customer came to me last week. Asked for something to break through magical barriers.”

“And you gave him something that could break through your own barrier?” she asked in disbelief. In hindsight, it did seem foolish. Anyone would think I hadn’t been in this game long.

“How do you think I test the efficiency of the product?” I retorted.

“You fucking idiot,” she said, shaking her head. There was no real malice in her words, though. “We’re in so much shit.” She ran her fingers through her hair and resumed pacing.

“Stop that.” She ignored me. “Ashley,” I grabbed her shoulders and held her in place. “You are going to cast the ritual. With or without that magic. We will find a way.”

“Without that magic there is no way,” she argued.

“You’ll do it. Killian has already seen it happen,” I assured her.

“He saw his own death too. Doesn’t mean it’s going to happen.”

“It might,” I said. If I could find a way to kill him then it bloody well would happen. “Just relax. Trust me. I will find the magic. I have a friend who knows how to find people. Just go home. Chill out. I’ll call you when I’ve got something.”

“Make sure you do,” she instructed me before leaving the unit. I could tell by her face that the last thing she was going to be doing was relaxing.

Once she was gone I looked around. Just a cursory glance to see if anything else was missing. It was impossible to concentrate, though. I resigned to giving up. I’d come back and take a full inventory once I’d managed to make some progress finding the thief.

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