Dead Over Heels by Lily Webb

Author:Lily Webb [Webb, Lily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lily Webb

Chapter 9

It took Aunt Blair shaking me by the shoulders to jar me out of the thought spiral I’d fallen down. “Selena? Selena! What is it? What’s wrong?” she demanded, and I snapped back into my body as if some magic spell had projected my spirit out of it.

Everyone stood staring at me, so I glanced down to find the desk phone lying in pieces on the floor where I’d apparently dropped it — though I had no recollection of it hitting the floor, much less breaking.

I found Zoe among the crowd, who must’ve rejoined us when she heard all the commotion downstairs, and locked my gaze on her. “It’s Officer Dunham. Aimes said she’s dead, and that Marcus killed her.”

“What?!” Zoe asked, as incredulous as I was at the news. “She’s sure of that?”

“I don’t know, but I think we need to get to the SVPD.”

“Clearly,” Jadis said as she kneeled down to pick up the pieces of the phone, but Aunt Kiki stopped her.

“Don’t worry about it, Jadis. I’ll take care of it,” Kiki said, and pulled out her wand to wave it at the mess. The phone and its pieces lifted off the ground and rearranged themselves like a puzzle in mid-air until everything was back in its right place, and the headset drifted over to the desk and plopped onto its holder.

Thorn pulled me into his chest. “Are you okay?”

“I’m fine, just shocked. How and why would Marcus have killed Officer Dunham?” I asked, more to wonder aloud than because I thought Thorn might have any answers — in fact, he still had little clue what was going on.

“Well, Dunham said that she and Aimes were watching Marcus. Maybe they had some sort of conflict?” Zoe asked.

I jolted as a realization struck me. “Like if Marcus kept selling his goods in the town square and Dunham tried to run him off?”

“Exactly. Evidently, he’s not as reformed as he wanted us to believe he was,” Zoe said, and as much as I wanted to believe she was wrong, I couldn’t help thinking back to the way we’d seen and heard Marcus screaming at Officer Aimes in the town square — nor how I’d wondered at the time if there might be more to his temper.

“Who is this Marcus guy?” Thorn asked. “He sounds like a real piece of work.”

“It’s a long story, but the short version is that he got busted smuggling illegal magical supplies into Moon Grove and spent some time in jail there. He just got out, and now he’s selling weird trinkets from other magical communities in Starfall,” Zoe said.

“And killing police, apparently,” Thorn said before turning back to me. “Selena, I’m worried about you. Are you sure this is a case you want to keep chasing? I mean, I know you’ve been through some crazy things, but I’d never be able to live with myself if you got hurt.”

Normally, I would’ve jumped to assuage Thorn, but this time, I couldn’t find the confidence.

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