Warrior's Crown (Cascade Saga Book 3) by M.A. Kastle

Author:M.A. Kastle [Kastle, M.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-05-09T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

Her cell vibrated in her pocket, alerting her to a call she easily ignored. “Mr. Hyche, you said you haven’t heard from Scott in two days. Why didn’t you tell us he contacted you?”

“We were advised not to. The members of Master of Spirits condemned humans and magic-born, making us look like radicals and a threat,” Mr. Hyche answered. He gave his wife, a short woman with blonde hair and green/blue eyes streaked with red a look of regret. “We kept ourselves separated from them. When he left the court banished him. He was dead in our eyes.”

“But you kept his house,” she pointed out. It wasn’t uncommon among the Purebloods, the higher echelon, to exile their Lessers. And leaving your own for another was seen as cowardly and a betrayal. But to turn your back on your son, your child, she had no idea the pain it caused.

“I pleaded with the court to allow us to keep it, and they did for a time, then they bought it. I didn’t tell him. I thought … hoped he would come home,” Mrs. Hyche explained.

“Understood. Do you know where he could be?” Jordyn asked.

“He’s here,” Mrs. Hyche answered quickly. There was a tremble in her voice Jordyn didn’t like. Regret. A son lost.

Mr. Hyche stared at his wife, at Jordyn, then Detective Watt with fear and uncertainty in his blue eyes. “We linked ourselves to our magic and searched for him and felt a void. He wasn’t there. Threads of his essence remained but he was gone,” he confessed.

“Could someone be using a magic shield to hide him?” Rutger told her he hadn’t been able to sense her, like she wasn’t there. Could it be the same magic? The same person?

“No. No, we wouldn’t have felt him at all,” Mrs. Hyche explained. “His essence. He’s here, somewhere.”

Jordyn nodded and looked at the yard, the two feet of snow and ice covering it, the trees shielding the ground from the sun, and wanted to tell the couple they were wrong. She couldn’t. There was truth in their words while their raw pain and fear radiated from them. “First we’ll search the house, to be sure, and then the yard.” She knew they weren’t going to find him in the house, she was just going through the motions. It left the yard. The ice.

“Thank you, Mistress,” Mr. Hyche offered.

Jordyn paused with the use of the title, met their sad gazes, gave them copper eyes as the soothsayer she was in acknowledgment, and headed up the sidewalk. The Unseelie court’s territory was nestled in part of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, surrounded by mountains, trees, and bordered the Seelie court’s territory. The mountains and trees protected it from the thunderstorm, the warmer temps, and the sun, letting the ice and snow remain in all its frozen glory. She could do without it.

“You believe their story?” Thomas asked as they stood at the door. He had serious doubts.

“Affirmative. I didn’t sense a lie and the

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