The Secret Circle: The Complete Collection: The Initiation and The Captive Part I, The Captive Part II and The Power, The Divide, The Hunt, The Temptation by L. J. Smith

Author:L. J. Smith [Smith, L. J.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2014-09-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Around four o’clock the power went off. The house got colder. They lit candles and went on reading.

“‘For Protection Against Fire and Water,’” Cassie read. But Melanie said the spell which came after wasn’t powerful enough to protect against a hurricane, and Cassie knew she was right.

“Here, this is ‘To Cast Out Fear and Malignant Emotions,’” Diana read from her own book. “‘Sun by day/ and moon by night/ let all dark thoughts/ be put to flight.’ Nice thought.”

They went on reading. A Charm to Cure a Sickly Child. An Amulet for Power. Three Spells to Bind a Lover. To Raise a Storm—that, they didn’t need, Cassie thought wryly. She read again about crystals: how the larger a crystal was, the more energy it could store and focus. The spell To Turn Aside Evil, she read aloud, although she didn’t understand it.

“‘Invoke the power which is yours alone, calling upon the elements or those features of the natural world which lie closest to your heart. These powers have you over all that is evil: powers of sun and moon and stars, and of everything belonging to the earth.’”

She read it again, puzzling. “I still don’t get it.”

“I think it means that as witches we can call on nature, on the things that are good, to fight evil,” Melanie said.

“Yes, but how do we call on them?” Cassie said. “And what do they do when we do it?”

Melanie didn’t know.

It got dark. The gray light from the windows got dimmer and dimmer and finally faded altogether. Wind banged the shutters and rattled the glass in the windows. The rain kept coming steadily in the blackness.

“What do you think he’ll do?” asked Suzan.

“Something unfriendly,” said Laurel.

Cassie was proud of them. They were scared; she knew them well enough to know that fear was what was behind Deborah’s restless pacing and Melanie’s stillness, but none of them were running away or backing down. Doug cracked bad jokes, and Chris made paper airplanes. Nick sat tense and silent, and Adam kept Doug’s headphones on, listening to the news on the radio.

At six o’clock the storm stopped.

Cassie’s ears, used to the drumming of rain and the clattering and banging and howling of wind, felt suddenly empty. She looked and saw the others were all sitting alert.

“It can’t be over,” Suzan said. “Unless it missed us?”

“It’s still out in the Atlantic,” Adam said. “They think it should hit land in about an hour. This is just the calm before the storm.”

“Cassie?” said Diana.

“I think he’s making his move,” Cassie said, trying to sound calm. And then every muscle in her body tightened.

Cassandra.

It was his voice in her mind. She looked at the others and saw they’d heard it too.

Bring your coven to the end of Crowhaven Road. To Number Thirteen, Cassandra. I’m waiting for you.

Cassie’s fingers clenched on a piece of unfolded laundry lying nearby. She tried to concentrate on the power of the Master Tools, on the warmth where they touched her. Then she pushed with her mind, forming words.

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