A Darker Past (Entangled Teen) (The Darker Agency) by Accardo Jus

Author:Accardo, Jus [Accardo, Jus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult, humor, Shannon Messenger, paranormal romance, demons, Kiersten White, Tahereh Mafi, Paranormalcy
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2014-11-11T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

If I lived inside a cartoon, there was an excellent chance my jaw would have crashed to the floor and shattered into a million shards. Sound effects, bouncing pieces—the whole nine. Obviously I’d seen a lot of creepy crap working with Mom, but this took the horror movie cake. It was right up there with clowns and talking robots.

I sucked in a breath and touched the surface of the mirror with the tip of my index finger. It was warm. Not quite liquidy, but definitely not solid—which was a good thing if I planned on walking through the thing. My finger met with the slightest bit of resistance when I pushed, like poking a hole through plastic wrap, but disappeared into the mirror. I counted to three and stepped through.

There were several seconds of disorientation, but when everything cleared, I couldn’t help gasping. Kendra was a few feet away, smiling, beneath a sparkling golden archway. With each step I took, the walls seemed to glitter. Like they were encrusted with a billion slivers of glass; they played off the light from the torches around the room.

I picked up the nearest torch and held it close to the wall to get a better look. On closer inspection, the glinting shards appeared to be stones that changed color depending on what angle you looked at them from. “Did you light all these?”

“Nah,” Kendra said. She walked back to me and held her hand over the fire as I started to protest. “They’re not fire in the sense that you’re thinking. It’s magic.”

“Well, bippity, boppity, boo.” We walked forward and stopped just beneath the arch. There was a subtle breeze, and I couldn’t tell which way it was coming from.

She came up beside me. “As far as I know, you’re the first non-coven member to ever walk past this gate.”

A profound sense of gravity settled over me. Honor that she would share this with me, but also fear that I wasn’t worthy. “This is kinda huge, Ken. You sure you don’t want me to wait here? I’d totally get it. Look who you’re talking to. My family has done some pretty insane things to protect our secrets.”

The room ahead was huge, with no visible doors other than the mirror beyond the archway. In the middle, there was a podium with a large book sitting open on the top, the edges of its pages fluttering every now and then, and along the walls, it almost looked like countless rows of drawers.

Kendra took my hand and squeezed, tugging me toward the large room. “There’s no one on this planet that I trust more than you, Jessie.”

My foot crossed the threshold beneath the arch, and a horrific howling filled the air.

I groaned. Was nothing easy? Why couldn’t it ever be as simple as walking into a room to take a peek at an ancient book? “You’ve got to be kidding me…”

Kendra cringed. “Oh…”

The howling didn’t ease up. I covered my ears and yelled, “Oh? That’s really all you have to say?”

“I guess it makes sense.

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