The Marker Chronicles, the First Trilogy by Danielle DeVor

Author:Danielle DeVor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Dark Fantasy, Horror
Publisher: City Owl Press
Published: 2017-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Forsaken

“TABBY?” I ASKED, closing and locking the door behind me.

“What?” she called from inside the bathroom.

“Never mind. Finish what you’re doing.” No sense in her stopping when I could wait for a bit.

Lucy and Doc were seated at the table. The curtains were open and the sunlight streamed through both of them. They weren’t doing anything, not even talking.

“How’s things now?” I asked them.

“Okay,” Lucy said. Isaac meowed from the bed.

I walked over and scratched him behind the ears. Then Tabby came out of the bathroom.

“I was thinking. It might be a good idea to ward the car today,” I said.

“All right. I can do that.”

I was glad when she didn’t ask what the rush was. I wasn’t sure if I should tell her about the birds or not. She was under enough stress. I grabbed the iPad off the nightstand and loaded it up. Then, I went to my email. I poured over every email I’d gotten from the Order. No contact information. No nothing. “Dammit.”

“What?” Tabby asked.

“All they’ve left me for contact info is email.”

“Okay. While I don’t like it, it never seemed to bother you before.”

“I didn’t need to talk to them urgently before.” How could I have been so stupid? I remembered a letterhead from the tax forms I signed, but those files were now mysteriously gone from the tablet. Great. Yet another thing to drive me crazy. But tax forms weren’t something to worry about now.

Tabby perched next to me on the bed. “We could try to interrogate Vespa. Or maybe help him remember somehow.”

“I don’t think I want to interrogate a demon yet. But if we could figure out a trigger for Vespa to remember the terms of the contract, I’d be all for it.” The less I had to do with the supernatural these days the better.

“You call Vespa. I’ll start packing. Tell him we want to begin. And that he’ll need to expect houseguests for the conceivable future.”

“Works for me.” It was an option and better than sleeping out in the desert. Less chance of scorpions, except for the demonic variety. I wasn’t all that crazy about going to live with him, especially when we didn’t know if he had anything to do with the break-in, but we needed out of a place we couldn’t trust at all. I didn’t want to visit a repeat of the Isaac affair.

I grabbed my phone and clicked Vespa’s number. He answered on the second ring.

“Mr. Holiday. It is good to hear from you,” he said.

I rolled my eyes. I wished he would stop all of the faux elegant crap. I knew that part had nothing to do with the demon, just Vespa’s perception of what was high-class. “Tabby and I were thinking.” I swallowed my revulsion of him. “We’ve done all the research we can, but now we need your help to finalize things before we begin the exorcism process.”

“What did you have in mind?” he asked.

“We were thinking if we could find a trigger, something that would make you remember, it would help.

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