Beacon's Fury (Potomac Shadows Book 3) by Johnson Jim

Author:Johnson, Jim [Johnson, Jim]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Ineti Press
Published: 2017-07-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

I DIDN’T DARE TRY TO CALL Abbie now; Malcolm and I had to get up the stairs and check the rest of the house. I had no idea who had been home aside from Tonia when the Spinner got here, and I was doing all I could to keep myself together. If Abbie had suffered the same fate as Tonia, I just didn’t know what I’d do.

At least I didn’t know what I’d do after I made the Spinner pay dearly for what he had done.

Malcolm and I searched the main level of the house, and Jackie’s room, but the whole level was empty. We reconnected at the bottom of the stairs leading up to the top floor.

“Are you all right, Rachel? Want me to go up first and, you know, sorta check things out?”

I stared up the staircase, the utter silence of the house and the ever-present pressure of that etheric fog pressing in all around us. I had rebuilt and reinforced my shield after we left the basement. I had to maintain a constant focus on it and power it with ley energy fed from my core. It was a bit of a distraction, and I wished that Charity was around to help me through it, but she had been silent since before we rushed here from Branchwood.

I sighed and then shook my head. “No, Malcolm. We need to go up together. Whatever’s up there is something we have to face together.”

His gaze met my eyes and then he reached out and squeezed my hands. I felt the warmth of his touch and the heat of his aura, simmering just over his skin. He had another double charge of bronze fire ready to unleash.

I readied my energies to support the shield and then started up the stairs. The Spinner’s etheric fog was denser here, and it was like walking through soup to get up to the top landing.

All the doors on the top level were open, though the one to Penny’s room had been knocked apart, and a few steps closer to it showed me how.

Cooper was spread out, face down on the floor, blood everywhere. Judging from the damage to the door and the wood fragments everywhere, it looked like he had been bodily picked up and thrown through the door.

I hurried to his side and knelt down, but a touch of my hand and a tentative scan with the etherics told me what my eyes suspected. He was dead as well. Unlike Tonia, however, his soul had departed his body much as any other soul departs a dead body. I reached out with my senses and scanned the area to see if perhaps his soul had lingered in the area.

Miss Chin, and later, Charity, had explained to me that when a person dies, sometimes their soul lingers around the place of death, sometimes for a few days, sometimes for years or even centuries. That I couldn’t detect his soul meant any number of things.

He could

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