Book of shadows by Alexandra Sokoloff

Author:Alexandra Sokoloff [Alexandra Sokoloff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SF
ISBN: 9780312384715
Published: 2010-06-08T20:22:15+00:00

Chapter Twenty-four

The sky was dark and the moon was huge in the sky as Garrett parked again on Essex Street outside Book of Shadows. He looked up through tree branches at the shining amber disk, and realized tonight it was full—it looked twice normal size and golden-toned, as a full moon often will do. A strong wind swayed the branches of the elm trees lining the sidewalks. Dry leaves rolled and swirled in the street. Halloween weather, Garrett thought to himself, and the thought was ominous. Three weeks to go.

He climbed the front steps of the house and walked into the shop to the musical tinkling of bells, and the fragrant warmth of the shop enveloped him. Tanith looked up from the book she was reading at the counter. They were silent, looking at each other under the strings of white lights sparkling like stars, and Garrett felt the charge between them from across the room, felt it through all of his body. Finally she spoke. “Detective Garrett, we really must stop meeting like this.” There was amusement in her eyes, and also a challenge that excited him. The white cat rolled over and stretched luxuriously in front of her.

“I’m sorry to keep dropping by,” he started.

The look she gave him said she didn’t believe him for a second. “That’s perfectly all right,” she said languidly. “This time I did see you coming.”

He never knew whether or not to believe what she said; it all seemed like a game to her.

“I may have found another,” he said, knowing she would know what he meant. Her amusement vanished, and she closed her book.

“Where? Who?”

“I haven’t found a body. But a young woman did go missing on August first. A streetwalker.”

Tanith’s face was still, but she said nothing. He watched her as he spoke. “It looks like you were right, and at this point I don’t care how you’re doing it. You have some kind of understanding of all this and I need to use it,” he said brusquely, without adding “Please.”

She stood and moved out from behind the counter, walked across the shop and locked the door, then flipped the OPEN sign in the window to CLOSED. She turned and looked at him expectantly.

Garrett took files out of his binder and spread photos of the park with the angel out on the counter. “This is the last place she was seen.”

Tanith moved to the counter beside him and they both looked down at the photos of the forlorn little park. She studied the shots for a long moment. She was wearing a black, off-the shoulder sweater that exposed her long neck and delicate shoulder blades, and Garrett could smell the fragrance she wore, apple musk again, heady and enticing. He had to stop himself from reaching out to touch the curve of her neck. Then he felt an uneasy prickle as she touched her index finger to the photo of the bench that had been Amber’s favorite, the bench in front of the angel on the fountain.

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