Insanity by Susan Vaught

Author:Susan Vaught
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: Bloomsbury_US
Published: 2014-10-15T21:00:00+00:00

The rest of our shopping trip and the ride home had been quiet, because I had no guts.

When Addie and I got out of the car at the house, both of us studied the basement door, then the living room window. We were eighteen minutes past the limit my father had given us. The Hand of Glory had probably gone out, but it wouldn’t leave behind any wax or ashes. He’d never know we used it, unless he found it burning. We had about an even chance of getting away with our extra time and privacy. If he was awake, he’d be pissed, and he’d keep us both at home for weeks—unless I abandoned Darius and went back to school.

Addie started for the house, but I caught up with her. “Wait. Just one more minute.” If I couldn’t make Addie understand this, I had no hope of ever making my father hear me. “Some of the folks who have power could help us, and we could help them. They really aren’t evil, not all of them.”

Addie’s mouth opened, then closed. She gripped the plastic shopping bag and shook her head as if she were trying to line up jagged thoughts that wouldn’t smooth together.

“One of them, this girl Forest,” I kept going in a rush, “you can feel the specialness dripping off of her. Darius can see how good she is with his bad eye, but we don’t know who she is, not really. The bunch of us took out a serial killer under the asylum, and a tree that was, I don’t know, too alive or something. It had a mouth and teeth.”

Addie said nothing at all. She just stared at me. I thought she was listening. I thought she was hearing me.

“My father has been right all along about some things,” I admitted. “There is a war going on, only not the one he thinks. That’s why I have to work at Lincoln for a while, to keep another pair of eyes on what’s happening, and to help.”

Addie caught hold of my elbow and slowly walked me toward the basement. I didn’t fight her as she pulled me inside, closing and locking the door behind us. Once we were there in the quiet within the walls, she gazed deep into my eyes, and the tightness that had been building in my chest eased a little. I got everything said. And Addie was listening. She was always with me and for me. She would understand, and she would help me convince my father that we had to help good people—whether they had power or not—fight the real evils when they showed up.

“Darius,” Addie said. “When did you find out?”

I blinked, not understanding her question.

She let out a long, slow breath, the way she did when she was sad. “When did you find out Darius Hyatt had Madoc blood?”

“What?” Frost hardened across my thoughts, then dropped lower to dust my heart. I hadn’t said anything about Darius having power. That was the one secret I wouldn’t share, because my father—oh.

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