Rosen's Bodyguard by Lisa Daniels

Author:Lisa Daniels [Daniels, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven – Rosen

Idiots. I’m surrounded by idiots. Rosen glared at Sten, who did not have the presence of mind to look guilty or feel any sudden need to apologize to her.

Instead, the man had the gall to claim that she clearly had done something to Laogh’s soul, otherwise this wouldn’t have happened.

“Sten, I know you hate necromancers with a burning passion, but you can’t keep stretching the facts to fit your world view forever,” Hargraves said, somehow keeping her patience, when Rosen suspected she wanted to punch the anthropologist somewhere into next week.

“There’s simply no other explanation,” Sten spluttered. “This is a world-renowned spirit medium. We should never have allowed a necromancer here in the first place...”

Ignoring him, Rosen watched Albert slink back into the room, his panther form screaming failure and anger. Not that she expected him to be able to do anything—the way he’d been flung aside, just like that… her heart had stopped for a moment, imagining her bodyguard being killed on duty. All because no one bothered to listen to her.

The big lunk acted as if the attack hadn’t phased him in the slightest. Thank goodness for that.

“She’s gone,” he said, after shifting back into human form. “I can’t sense her at all.”

Hargraves stamped the ground, fists clenched along with her teeth, and let out a thwarted half-grunt, half-scream. “I don’t care if you have seniority over me in this, Sten, but I swear to god, I’m getting your ass fired if it turns out that this spirit’s about to go on a murder rampage!”

“I—”

“When will you take responsibility for all that you’ve DONE?” Hargraves roared, and Sten shrank back from her furious outburst. “You stupid, stupid, imbecile! If you’d listened...”

Rosen left them to bickering, feeling a sick, nauseous feeling in her stomach. The spirit had escaped. Despite all her extra precautions, her efforts, her decision to stay here longer to ensure that the spirit did get disposed of safely…

Well, now it was in the body of a respected spirit medium. Doing whatever it intended to do.

Which was what she now needed to figure out. She fought through the throbbing, tight band of stress in her skull, while people snapped and panicked around her, thinking, thinking where Laogh McKenna would go.

She steepled her hands together. Some revenants were stronger than others… and it was generally acknowledged that the older the soul, the more powerful it became. She felt ill at the thought of a three-hundred-year-old soul exerting its influence.

Focus. She dipped herself into the Other Side in an attempt to pick up a spiritual trail. Might be a little hit and miss, given the fact that if the spirit had gone far enough into revenant transformation, she wouldn’t sense it on the upper levels. Again, that strange soul lingered in the room. As tempted as she was to interrogate it, knowing it would be receptive, she didn’t particularly want to place it in Laogh’s bones. Some spirits absolutely flipped out when someone else was placed

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