Ablaze - Book 4 (The Enchanted Castle Series) by Chrissy Peebles

Author:Chrissy Peebles [Peebles, Chrissy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Dark Shadows Publishing
Published: 2015-12-18T23:00:00+00:00

“A ghost?”

“Isabella. Something awful is playing out here, Mr. Rowens. Someone is possibly planning to sacrifice me.”

“Zoey, are you on drugs?” he asked.

“I wish it was as simple as detox,” I said.

“Why would anyone want to sacrifice you?”

“Hmm. I’m not sure. Why don’t you tell me? My guess is immortality, since the book was opened to that spell. To spark up that little fountain of youth, royal blood is needed, and we both know I come from Isabella’s royal bloodline.”

He looked at me in stunned amazement, totally thrown off guard because I’d so easily laid all my cards on the table. “If this is true, then why haven’t you tried to leave? Any sane person in such danger would have hightailed it out of here.”

“With all due respect, Mr. Rowens, I am not sure you should be talking to me about sanity. You’re the one who wants to have some murderous moonlight ceremony to try to save himself. I stayed because, unlike you, I’m not selfish, and the spirits need me to free them.”

His gaze narrowed, but he had no retort.

I glared directly into his eyes. “I stole something, right? So expel me,” I challenged. “Maybe I’m getting a little tired of all this ghost grief. Maybe I just wanna go back home to New Orleans.”

“No, no, you’re, uh… You’re both free to go,” he stuttered. “I got the book back, and that is the most important thing. There is no proof you took it, and I am sure you have some ulterior motive for trying to take the blame. You’re speaking of ghosts and ceremonies, as if you’ve had some sort of mental breakdown, young lady. For all I know, it could be planted evidence. Perhaps you should see the nurse to have your head checked out.”

“I’m sure my head is just fine, Mr. Rowens,” I said. “As for the book, I’m sure the owner is very happy to have it back, so he can work out that little immortality spell of his.”

Mr. Rowens’s face reddened to the shade of a summer-ripe tomato, and he pounded his fist on his desk. “That’s it! I tried to let you go peacefully, but you insist on being mouthy and insubordinate. Both of you will report to detention for a week!”

I stood and grinned. “We’ll be there.”

“And you’ll be seeing the counselor to discuss these severe emotional problems you’re having. I do not know where you are getting these delusions of ghosts and goblins, young lady, but you definitely need help. Maybe your parents let you watch one too many of those slasher films you kids love so much, or maybe it’s all those blood-and-gore videogames. Either way, you’re dismissed!”

I held back a scowl. “Thank you.”

Hunter and I walked out and headed straight to the garden. I hugged him as emotion flooded out of me, and he stroked my hair, making me feel like the luckiest girl in the world, even if I was on a ghost king’s hit list.

“When they kicked you out, I was devastated,” I said.

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