Emerald Darkness by Cannon Sarra

Author:Cannon, Sarra
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult Paranormal Romance, New Adult Paranormal Romance, Coming of Age, Horror, Myths and Legends, Young Adult Urban Fantasy, New Adult series
ISBN: 978-1-62421-037-2
Publisher: Dead River Books
Published: 2015-05-08T16:00:00+00:00

What Kind Of Power

I wanted to shake her. Harper could be so foolish sometimes.

She’d just grabbed that stone like it was nothing, not even thinking about what it might do to her. It could have killed her on contact.

She was always risking her life, thinking only of how to save her friends, and while that may have seemed heroic to everyone else, I wished she realized just how much putting her own life in danger affected our entire group. Without her, we never would have defeated Priestess Winter in the first place.

If she got hurt or died now, there was no telling if we would be able to defeat the rest of the Order.

“Are you okay?” I asked.

She nodded and rubbed a hand across her forehead. She was cradling the injured human girl, checking to make sure she was still breathing. “I’ll be fine,” she said. “We need to get her to Angela as soon as we can. You had something else you wanted to show me first?”

I glanced at the girl, trying to make sense of what I’d seen downstairs.

“Come with me.”

I held out a hand to help Harper stand. She lay the girl on a pillow and followed me down the stairs to the living room.

“Look at the clock,” I said.

She lifted her eyes to a clock on the wall above the fireplace. “What about it?”

“Notice how none of the hands are moving?”

She nodded. “Maybe it needs new batteries?”

“I don’t think so,” I said. “When we first came in, I noticed the one in the kitchen wasn’t working, either.”

“What are you getting at?” she asked, fatigue heavy in her voice.

“You don’t think it’s weird that we saw no birds when we were flying? That when we came into town, not a single car was on the road? And now, all the clocks in this house are stuck at exactly three a.m., the most powerful time for a witch’s power in this world?”

She took a deep breath and studied the clock again. “What does it mean?”

“Don’t you notice how everything is completely quiet? No sound at all? I noticed it immediately, and I don’t think it’s just that this clock needs new batteries.”

“I don’t understand what you’re saying,” Harper said.

“Follow me.” I walked to the front door and swung it open, looking both ways down the street.

“What are you looking for?” she asked.

“Proof,” I said. “Come on.”

She glanced back toward the stairs. “We can’t just leave her up there,” she said. “She’s injured.”

“She’s sleeping. And right now, there are more important things at stake than the life of that one girl.”

I walked down the street until I saw something in the neighbor’s yard that made my heart stop. “There,” I said, pointing to the cat.

A black cat on the neighbor’s porch was frozen with one paw on the top step. I counted to ten, but the cat never moved.

“What the hell is going on?” Harper asked, fear in her voice.

I ran up the stairs of the house and pushed open the door.

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