Belmary House 4 by Cassidy Cayman

Belmary House 4 by Cassidy Cayman

Author:Cassidy Cayman [Cayman, Cassidy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little Black Cat
Published: 2016-12-02T18:30:00+00:00


Chapter 19

Ashford didn’t think the faces Liam was making, or the continuous hissing noises coming from between his teeth, were any indication that he approved of the homemade spell. He had a feeling if the situation wasn’t so dire, he might be getting laughed at.

“It’s quite good, isn’t it?” he asked anyway, refusing to give up on his handiwork.

Liam groaned for a solid twenty seconds before turning around to make sure Helen really had gone off to introduce herself to Serena and see if she could be of any assistance.

“It’s quite bad,” he said. “You’ve created a monster, Dr. Frankenstein. Oh, sorry, I think that reference is still a few years out for you. Are you trying to kill everyone in the house, or rather, on the street? This hex could—”

“Yes, thank you, I understand it can use some work,” Ashford said grimly.

“It needs to be burned and forgotten. If Helen was in the room and heard how dangerous it was, she’d try to hit you again.”

Ashford was glad she wasn’t. The first time he’d met Matilda’s grandmother was when they’d gone to Matilda’s time, right after they’d dealt with Liam’s nefarious son. She’d tried to beat him with an oversized satchel for accidentally abducting Matilda to 1814, unable to get her back for almost three months. She didn’t like the idea of Matilda wanting to return with him, but she’d grown used to it, and promised to visit along with Liam, during their own travels through the centuries.

When she heard he’d lost her granddaughter this time, she managed to get in a solid thwack with her parasol before Liam calmed her down and suggested she try and offer her modern medical knowledge to Serena. Ashford rubbed his aching shoulder and paced the room, unhappy with the assessment of his spell.

“How Tilly managed to reopen the portal is beyond me,” Liam mused. “Helen’s going to skin me for that, but I could swear I closed it up as well as I could. It took me a day and a half to do it.”

Ashford looked balefully at the book. “I didn’t think she could either, not after you broke the curse. I never thought she’d try, or I never would have let her look at the spellbook.”

Liam grimaced. “Did you think I broke the curse? No, the curse on this house can’t be broken, at least it couldn’t by me. It’s the strongest damn hex I’ve ever come across, about scared the bejesus out of me when I first starting poking around to understand it. I merely put a lid on it, and I guess not a very good one.”

Ashford simmered quietly on that new information for a moment, trying to keep a hold of his temper. He didn’t recall Liam ever saying the curse was lifted, he had only said the portal was closed, so he didn’t suppose he had any right to be as furious as he was. It was his own misunderstanding, but he would have thought twice



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