Witch On The Run: A New Adult Urban Fantasy (Red Witch Chronicles 4) by Sami Valentine

Author:Sami Valentine [Valentine, Sami]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pocketmaus Press
Published: 2020-07-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Walking out of the corridor with Kristoff beside her, Red couldn’t look away from Lucas’s soulful stare. Gray like a distant storm, she couldn’t decipher the depths. She didn’t know what he felt, but she knew what he saw—her, in a short dress, clinging to his progeny. Even if he had dumped her, the sight would sting. The night had stung her ego too. After telling him to buzz off, that she was a strong independent female, werewolves attacked. The chokehold on her neck still made her words come out raspy. The mental defense didn’t make her feel any less uncomfortable.

“The Gendarme are clearing people out of this corner of the casino,” Hannah chattered, phone charging at her feet. “For the investigation.”

“They should move quick before the next movie ends,” Kristoff said, dryly.

Red barely heard them. She was so fixed on Lucas that she didn’t see Trudy coming until the Bard wrapped her arms around her.

“When I heard werewolves were in the building, I thought Hannah…”

Red patted Trudy on the back while she looked around in confusion. She hadn’t heard this much emotion in the Bard’s voice even when she had talked about having cancer.

Trudy pulled back, placing her chained glasses back on her nose, and coughed, composing her usual stern demeanor. “Hannah says you saved the day.”

“I just brought wolfsbane.” Red ducked her head, blushing. “I would have brought more if I had known about that missing ward.”

Spine going ramrod straight at the reminder, Trudy pivoted to glare at the female Gendarme who had started taking a statement from Kristoff. She marched over with a barrage of questions. “Who is supervising the wards? Has the Synod sent out trackers? Why haven’t my charge and I been escorted back to the academy? Now, thank you!”

Quelling a look of annoyance, the Gendarme held up a finger to Trudy. She leaned toward Kristoff, murmuring no doubt the usual about being in touch before stepping away. She beckoned the teen over.

“All I wanted to do was study.” Hannah bowed her head, grabbing her phone and following the Gendarme. Trudy guarded their flank with the intensity of a mother dragon.

“Red, you look spacey. Do you need to sit down?” Lucas asked.

Red snapped off her witchy sight, realizing she had left it on and had zoned out on the strange energies coming out of the corridor behind them. The academy police weren’t just dusting for prints in the nightclub. She shook her head. “Just still pumped from the action.”

“Speaking of, was it a bald bloke who attacked you?” Lucas asked. “I chased one through the parking lot until he shifted. Found the security in a fuss when I came to report it in.”

“No, it was a bearded dude who was entirely too comfortable being naked with his equally as creepy sister.” She shook her head. “She tried to convince Hannah to sacrifice herself to save me.”

Black bowler pulled low over his brow, Ian strode out of the hallway. “Red, I need to take your account.

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