The Devil You Know by Sean Stone

Author:Sean Stone [Stone, Sean]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
ISBN: 9798553258481
Amazon: B08KFKQ8ML
Publisher: Sean Stone
Published: 2020-10-29T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

I searched the room but, just as I suspected, the belt was gone. Thor was the first god I’d ever met. The first one I remembered anyway. From the way he’d been talking I’d thought he still had some power in him, power enough to not get killed. Apparently it was all talk. The first living god I’d ever encountered was also the first god I’d seen dead.

But who could have killed him?

This mystery was too bamboozling for my uneducated mind, but there was somebody who new far more about gods than I did, and as it happened she had been next on my list of people to visit anyway. I pulled out my phone and called Jasmine.

‘I cannot believe you summoned me to this drab little corner of depression,’ she said, half an hour later when she practically tip-toed into the room, clearly eager to touch as little of her surroundings as possible.

‘I don’t want to be here either,’ I said. I was sitting in the little box armchair in the corner.

‘The god of thunder. How the mighty have fallen,’ Jasmine said under her breath as she took in the image of Thor’s almost naked corpse.

‘Are you gloating over a dead body?’ I asked in surprise. Jasmine could be cold but this was beyond even her usual levels of frostiness.

Her eyebrows knitted together in confusion. ‘Gloating? About what? It’s just an expression, darling. Now, why did you ask me here?’

‘Well, I was hoping you could figure out what killed him.’ I rested my cheek in the palm of my hand and waited for her to respond. She looked over the body slowly before reverting her attention back to me.

‘Don’t you have enough to worry about without adding a little murder mystery to the pot?’

I sighed and stood up, running my hands through my hair. ‘You’re right.’

‘Thank you,’ she said with a small smile.

‘I’ve already got more on my plate than I can handle as it is. However, he had a magic belt that doubles the strength of whoever wears it. He was going to lend it to me, but I think somebody else wanted that belt and killed him for it.’

‘And so your big idea is to hunt them down and take the belt from them?’

‘I’m worried about who might have the belt. Imagine if Magraval has it. He’d double his power just like that.’ I snapped my fingers for emphasis and watched the smile slide from Jasmine’s face. She stepped up to the corpse and bent over as she began to examine Thor’s lifeless face.

‘There are no signs of ageing. So if Magraval killed him then he didn’t drain his life-force first.’

‘Are you sure? I think different species react differently to the draining process.’

‘Why do you think that?’

‘The two Fae found dead. They had all the symptoms of being drained but no other signs of harm. I think because they live so long the draining kills them rather just ageing them.’

‘And gods outlive Fae by quite a bit.

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