Shattered (The Alchemy Series Book 3) by Donna Augustine

Author:Donna Augustine [Augustine, Donna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Strong Hold Publishing
Published: 2013-11-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

"What are those men doing with you? Who are they?" Buzz asked.

"Not here," I said. I looked behind me at the casino lobby where Cormac was telling Kever where to put Crash and his men. I motioned to the stairwell, which was becoming my place.

I should have known something was up as I saw the door to the stairs open and let out a group of people. When had everyone started taking the stairs?

When I entered the stairwell, it was like Grand Central Station, people coming and going every second or so. I had to press myself against the wall to let an especially large group get by. "What the hell?"

"The elevators on this side of the casino are gone," Buzz explained.

"They broke?"

"Uh, no, not broke. Just gone."

"Gone where? Talk, Buzz!" I said, losing more and more patience as I saw my stairwell becoming completely overrun.

"Last night, at approximately two a.m. they disappeared."

I looked at him, almost not believing what he was saying. He threw his hands into the air and shrugged.

"What's there now?"

"Stone. It was pretty ugly. A couple of people were in them when they disappeared and they got wedged in between the stone walls. It was a disaster to get them out."

"Are the Fae behind it? We need to figure out who's screwing around. This is not the time for practical jokes."

"They are denying any involvement."

Tired of being bumped by the people passing by, I entered the flow of traffic heading upward with Buzz. It looked like I'd have to get used to sharing my stairwell. Even though there were other elevators in the casino, no one would want to use them, now.

The crowd dissipated the higher up we got and I was able to start taking the stairs two at a time by the tenth floor.

"If it's not the Fae, then what's happening to the building?" I said as soon as we had enough privacy.

"Burrom is starting to think it's the spells they've been using toward the casino. He wouldn't tell me the whole thing, but there is at least one line in the incantation that says something about being as strong as a fortress of yore. The way he explained it, now that magic is much stronger, it could be interpreting the words more literally."

"Fortress of yore? With all the crazy shit happening these days and stone popping up everywhere, it just occurred to them?" As bizarre of an idea as it was, it was a logical conclusion, considering the progression of things. "Does he have any guess as to how much of a castle we are to become?"

"Nope. Did you find Sabrina and the rest of the changed? Dodd is climbing the walls. I think he might lose it soon."

"We found them but they're being held at a heavily armed generator plant."

"Shit. How many?"

"That's one of the problems. It's not just the changed. They've got rippers there and they seem to be in cahoots, somehow. I don't know if the rippers are bright enough to make a deal with or maybe they're just tamed somehow.

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