Broken (Book 3 of The Guardian Interviews) by Clary Michael

Author:Clary, Michael [Clary, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Book 3 of the Guardian Interviews
Published: 2013-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Ivana

My second meeting with Ivana is at the same bar as our last meeting. She shows up late again and seems to have been drinking prior to our meeting. Still, she greets me with a warm hug, and then giggles herself to the cushioned bench opposite mine.

“I’m curious as to why you’re late?”

I had to get my drink on.

“You had to get your drink on before meeting with me?”

What can I say? I’m shy. Plus, I had to get permission to talk about the things we’re gonna talk about.

“I thought everyone already had permission to speak with me?”

We do. I just wanted to make sure that Miriam was okay with it.

“Miriam?”

Yes. This is sort of her part of the story. I wanted to make sure she was okay with me talking about it.

“Was she?”

Yes.

“Okay then. So Jaxon, Dudley, and Nick left you after the phone call from Mr. Hardin. Is that correct?”

Yes, that’s correct.

“Did you have any knowledge of their activities after they left?”

I found out everything later.

“Can you tell me what happened after they left?”

Miriam did her thing.

“Can you elaborate?”

Miriam was concerned about Skie. She wanted to see her. The staff wouldn’t let her. Miriam was very upset.

“I need to get past these idiots,” Miriam said. “I’m running out of time, and so is Skie.”

She just kept repeating this over and over.

By the time we were finally allowed to see her, she’d been given her own private room on the fifth floor of the hospital. There were nurses in the room when we entered. They were checking Skie’s vital signs and attaching various wires and tubes.

Poor Skie was so pale.

Miriam told the nurses to leave. As the last one passed me, she whispered in my ear.

“She’s not suffering,” The nurse said.

I started crying. I stood in the doorway and just sobbed. Skie was my friend. She was the sweetest person I knew. She didn’t deserve to die.

Miriam went straight to her side the second the nurses were out of the room. She pulled these strange little instruments out of her purse and began looking into Skie’s ear. She felt her pulse. She used another sort of strange funnel thing to listen to her heart.

“Her soul is preparing to depart,” Miriam announced. “I need to work fast.”

In my mind, it was over. We had lost a member of our family that was never supposed to be in danger. I didn’t believe any of us would ever recover. I knew Jaxon wouldn’t. I worried about him terribly.

Miriam spent hours arranging candles around the room. She drew strange symbols on the two windows. She poured an ugly smelling powder by the doorway. She also began to draw more strange symbols on Skie’s body.

I kept staring at the red stained bandage above her heart.

When Miriam was done with her symbols and candles, she pulled a small bowl out of her purse. She put many different ingredients into the bowl. I couldn’t tell you what a single one of those were, but I do believe I saw a human finger.

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