Ghosts in the Graveyard by Liz Schulte

Author:Liz Schulte
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2015-10-14T04:00:00+00:00

If I were going to attack a small group of witches, the first thing I’d do is eliminate the strongest, most immediate threat.

I bit my lip. Frost wasn’t stronger than Selene magic-wise, but one touch was all it took. My finger hovered over the send button on my cell phone. We were being followed. I was eighty percent sure of it. That was probably a good enough reason to call Cheney. Hell, he was probably still here.

My muscles relaxed and I put the phone away. Of course he was still here. He was probably the guy in the hood keeping an eye on us. I would find Frost, get back to Selene, and tell them all what was happening. No more overreacting.

Stepping up on a bench, I scanned the crowd for Frost’s snow-white hair. It should be easy enough to pick out. Faces and masks all blurred together, but Frost definitely wasn’t among them. I was about to step down when something caught my eyes. Just down the block—another man in a hood. What the hell? Was it Sebastian?

I jumped down and pushed my way through the crowd to where the man had stood, but he was gone. Whipping my head right then left, I caught a glimpse of him turning down an alley. Sebastian wasn’t going to get away that easily. I took off after him, but when I got to the alley, seconds later, it was empty.

Damn elves.

Something fluttered against the wall of the alley in the slight breeze. A piece of paper maybe; it was hard to tell in the dark. Time slowed and the icy hand of nervousness gripped me. I couldn’t kill with a single touch. My magic didn’t pack the wallop Selene’s did. Hell, I couldn’t even tell if someone was lying like Jessica could. In that alley, I might as well have been like any other human—you know, unless the bad guy would wait for me to conjure up a spell. My fists clenched and I released a breath. One foot in front of the other, I walked toward the note.

With every step, the noise from the street disappeared a little more. This alley was a world apart. The smell of a cigar and something else I couldn’t quite place hung in the air. A light I hadn’t seen before flickered several feet down like a candle. My foot caught on something, pitching me forward. I caught myself on the wall, but the crack of my cell phone against the brick went straight to my heart.

“Shit.” I pulled it out to check the damage; the screen didn’t even light up. “Damn it!”

I stared at the ground accusingly. What did I even trip over? There was nothing, but the cobblestone alley. Wait. Cobblestone alley? There were zero cobblestone anythings in this little beach town. What in the world?

The note fluttered right in front of me—a single sheet folded in half on yellowed, thick paper. I pulled it down, and couldn’t see how it had stuck to the wall.

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