Bridge of Souls by Victoria Schwab

Author:Victoria Schwab [Schwab, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781338574883
Google: 02i_DwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2021-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

Lara and I step back through the Veil.

A shiver, and a sigh, and then the Society room is warm and solid around us again. Michael and Renée are seated at the table, in the middle of a discussion with someone else, but they trail off when they see us.

“Never got used to that part,” says Michael, gesturing to our sudden reappearance, but I’m staring past him, at the new arrival.

“Ah, yes,” says Renée, gesturing to the man in the chair. “This is our current historian.”

I stand there, mouth open.

Because the man in the chair is Lucas Dumont, our guide.

Surprise flashes across his face, but it only lasts a second.

“Actually,” he says, rising to his feet, “we’ve already met. Admittedly, it was under different circumstances. Cassidy …” He trails off, as if waiting for me to explain. Lara looks at me, too, and I realize that they haven’t met.

“This is my parents’ guide, Lucas,” I explain.

“Ah, the paranormal show,” says Renée. “Small world, isn’t it?”

“Very,” says Lucas, polishing his glasses. He nods at Lara. “And you are?”

“Lara Chowdhury,” she says, standing even straighter. “Future member of the Society. And Cassidy’s friend.”

“I see,” he says in his measured way. “And what exactly are you doing here, Miss Blake?”

I don’t know if he expects me to tell him the whole story from almost-drowning to being an in-betweener to my current predicament, so I just say, “I’m kind of … being hunted.”

“Emissary,” says Renée, “nasty business.”

“Were the others able to help?” asks Michael.

I try to drag my focus away from the fact that my parents’ very skeptical historian is a member of a paranormal secret society. We’re definitely going to have to talk about that later.

“Yes,” says Lara. “I think we have a plan.”

“Excellent,” says Renée. “Who did you meet? Agatha? Theo?” She leads me and Lara back through the black curtain and into the brightly lit store. Jacob is sitting on a stool by the counter, having a staring contest with the cat and chatting with Philippa.

But he looks up as soon as I come through.

“Lucas Dumont is in the Society!” he announces.

“Yeah, I know,” I say, nodding at the curtain as Michael and Lucas follow us out. “I guessed that when I saw him in there.”

Jacob’s shoulders slump. “Well, you weren’t here to be surprised with me,” he sulks, “so I had to save it.” He hops down from the stool. “Well? What did you learn?”

“You couldn’t hear me thinking?”

Jacob shakes his head. “No. It was just … quiet. Like white noise.”

“That would be the warding,” says Philippa, and I wonder, just for a second, if there’s a way to ward my thoughts all the time.

Jacob scowls, reading my mind, and I say, a little too loudly, “Privacy is important!”

And even though Renée, Michael, and Lucas can’t see Jacob, and it must look like I’m having a very tense discussion with empty air, they don’t seem thrown. I guess it’s probably not the strangest thing they’ve come across.

“We learned,” explains Lara, “that Emissaries are drawn to those marked by life and death.

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