Holmberg, D K - The Painter Mage 04 - Stolen Compass by Holmberg D K

Author:Holmberg, D K [Holmberg, D K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2015-10-13T23:00:00+00:00

9

Big Red rumbled through the streets. I wasn’t paying as much attention to where I was going I should have been, so focused on what Jakes had just told me. Could my father really have been a magus? I knew he had power—hell, half of the things I’d seen since returning to Conlin took a different type of power than I could manage as a painter, but I’d always thought the magi were something different.

I turned the truck down the road toward Jakes’s house. I probably should wait for Devan—she might be pissed that I came here alone—but I needed to learn what I could from Nik as quickly as possible. We had less than two days remaining to find the damn box, and I was no closer to locating it than I was before, and I still wanted to figure out why the compass had been stolen.

I pulled the truck into the driveway and let it roll to a stop in front of the garage. Jakes’s house was an older rambler, probably built in the fifties, and still had some of the stylings from when it was first built. His father had painted it a dark brown, almost chocolate. Normally, I’d not think much of the color, but in the magical world, colors mattered. For all I knew, my father had been the one to paint the house, just as he’d painted my house. Having the Elder working as a simple house painter would add power and protection to the house.

I smiled at the thought of my father out here working with a paintbrush, imagining Jakes’s father standing there, Mr. Miyagi style, and saying “Paint the house!”

At this time of day, I hadn’t expected anyone to be home. Jakes was at the diner, and I didn’t think anyone else lived here, but the front door popped open, and Kacey came out to greet me.

“Oliver? Sam isn’t here.”

She was dressed in a loose-fitting shirt and small shorts that showed her long, slender legs. Kacey was cute, but petite, especially for a shifter. Compared to Jakes, she was tiny. The thought of the two of them together made me fear for her safety. Unless shifters had to get at it while in their wolf form, but even then, Kacey wasn’t much larger.

“Yeah, I just saw him over at the Rooster. He was giving me a little fatherly advice.”

Kacey frowned. She set her hands on her hips, exposing a little of her stomach. “I’m not sure you want to take any advice like that from Sam. He’s been through too much to really give you anything useful.”

“I think he meant it to be helpful.”

Kacey glanced at the truck as if noticing that Devan wasn’t there and then faced me. “Anything I can help with?”

“Oh, you know, I’m here to play in Jakes’s shed. I told him I couldn’t promise that it would still be here when he returned.”

Kacey laughed. “I doubt he’d mind. If it wasn’t for the fact that your father helped build the house, I think he would have stayed where he was.

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