Halfway Hunted - Halfway Witchy by Terry Maggert

Author:Terry Maggert
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Vampires, Shifters, Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Witches
Published: 2016-06-01T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen: Circle the Wagons

Alex ran off, literally, to go alert his sister. They’d be on high alert until we could develop a cohesive plan, but it would be nearly impossible to sneak up on a shifter.

But it was possible, and I’d seen the evidence. I was still bothered by how Reina had been murdered mid-change. For experienced shifters, it’s a process that takes seconds at most. It’s magical. There’s no baying at the moon and sprouting hair over a span of hours; they simply make up their mind and use magic to change into their other form. It’s virtually instant.

That meant someone had an intimate knowledge of the internal workings of Reina’s system, or they had known exactly the instant that Reina was going to change. Neither were likely, and I more or less ruled them out since we were dealing with a killer who seemed to be highly skilled. There’s an old saying that luck is the residue of preparation, but executing Reina in the middle of a change wasn’t just improbable, it was impossible.

I smacked my hand on my forehead, cursing myself for being so blind. Reina couldn’t have been taken by a hunter and then skinned like an animal, because shifters will always revert to their human form, unless they’ve been feral for too long. That meant there was a magical element I hadn’t picked up on. Something insidious, and likely related to blood magic, since nothing Gran had ever described could freeze a shifter in time, so to speak.

The sun began to creep in my windows, pale and timid. I stifled a huge yawn and dragged myself back upstairs to catch some sleep. My witchmark was free of alarm, so I nudged Gus, who had already taken the prime real estate in the middle of the bed, and burrowed under the covers. I drifted off to sleep with thoughts of hunters running me down in the snow and wondered if that heart-pounding terror was the last thing Reina felt. With a last glance, I looked out over the brightening mountains and realized that I needed my own hunter to advise me on what to do next.

And I knew just where to find him.

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