Midnight Starling: An Urban Fantasy Romance Series by Rhiannon Lee

Author:Rhiannon Lee [Lee, Rhiannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Poppy

It took me nearly two hours to calm Bea down enough to convince her to wait until later today to remove her guise. Thankfully, there were only a few things left to collect before I would be ready. I was grateful for that fact because my attention was divided. Bea was the PI, not me, but right now I didn’t have a choice but to try my hand at detective work. If we didn’t find the cause of the failing magic soon, we would lose everything.

I could have killed Thain for pulling her into his office yesterday just to tell her to back off the case she was working on. That and implying she couldn’t take care of herself. I also felt like a horrible guardian, because I did not know that the people she was working to find were part of the Tolve. While I agreed she needed to be careful of the Tolve, I also knew how stubborn she was. The only thing Thain had done was to make her angry and make her more determined to find Anna. And he had taken it upon himself to educate her about a subject I had clearly forbidden. Had I not already explained some of it to her, he could have ruined everything. What was wrong with that man?

I fumbled with my thoughts for a few more moments, then left to begin my own reconnaissance. There was an active power well on the ley line that ran through the center of town, and it was my turn to check on it. The duties were rotational for those who already worked for the Godkin community. It was now my month, and I was also curious if anything else was being affected like the sprouts in the greenhouses. It was a task that I had only put marginal effort into for the last few years. I used the excuse that I was busy, but honestly, I was avoiding others’ opinions on the subject because I knew what they would say.

Bea was already gone, diving even deeper into her case because of Thain’s meddling, and Isaac was asleep as usual. You couldn’t port your way into any space beside a flowing source of magic because its power disrupted even the best thought out plans. I could end up halfway across the galaxy instead of where I was trying to go. I readied myself to teleport.

Once I landed behind the building I was aiming for, I made my way onto the street and into the bustling city. The sounds of people going about their normal lives was a distraction for my worrying. I could make out the laughter of a young child which brought a smile to my face and made me think of Bea when she was tiny—her bright and curious mind overflowing with questions she fired off to Isaac and me nearly non-stop.

I barely remembered my childhood other than the abuse, but from what I read, that was normal when you endured a lot of traumas as a kid.

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