Werewolves of Shade (Part Six) (Beautiful Immortals Series Book 6) by Tim O'Rourke

Author:Tim O'Rourke [O'Rourke, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ravenwoodgreys
Published: 2015-06-14T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

I followed Calix back through the wood. We didn’t talk. My mind was preoccupied with what I had seen while I had been tied to that post. I hadn’t been burnt to death in that clearing, but someone had. I had seen her. And deep inside I believed it was Julie Miller’s eyes that I had been looking through. But that would be impossible, right? No more impossible than vampires and werewolves. No more implausible than the wolf that appeared each night at the end of the garden path. No more unreal than the werewolf that crept into my room each night then into my bed. Why couldn’t I have, then, in some way, been looking through the eyes of Julia Miller, the woman Calix had said had been a witch? And if she truly had been a witch perhaps she had left some kind of spell in that clearing – perhaps she had left some ghostly essence behind? Both Trent and Calix had said that the witch had placed a spell over Shade and, in fact, left one inscribed all over Calix’s body – so why not in the place that she had died? But that was no normal death – that had been a sacrifice. But who had sacrificed her and why? Through the flames I had seen several wolves – werewolves. Why hadn’t they helped her? She had called out to them. But they had done nothing to save her. It was like they just stood and watched the witch burn to death. I wasn’t sure now how I felt about living in the house of a witch who had been sacrificed by werewolves. But if the wolves had killed Julia Miller, why, then, did one of them keep coming to my room? He had called me Julia; did he believe that I was her? Did this werewolf not know that she had been burnt alive at that stake? And what of the diary I had found in that secret place behind the painting in Julia’s study? There had been a picture of Trent tucked between the pages of that book. Had both of them meant something to each other? Or had Julia hidden the picture of Trent for some other reason?

Ahead of us, in the direction that Calix was leading me, I could hear voices. I reached for my gun. Remembering that I had run out of bullets, I let my hand slide away again. As we drew closer to the voices, I knew it was Rush, Rea, and Trent I could hear talking. In the distance I could see them silhouetted by the thin strips of moonlight that filtered through the branches overhead. Hearing us approach, Rush looked up.

“Hey, Mila,” he said, coming toward me and taking my hands in his. “Are you okay?”

“I’m fine,” I said, glancing sideways at Calix. I let my fingers slide from Rush’s hold and put them in the pockets of my hoodie.

“What happened?” Rush asked.

“I found her tied to some tree in the middle of the woods,” Calix answered for me.

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