Truthfinder's Promise by Michelle Manus

Author:Michelle Manus [Manus, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Seclusion Publishing

Jensen couldn’t see the bounds of Meredith’s silencing spell. “How do I know I’m inside your magic circle?”

Meredith frowned. “You can’t feel it?”

“I feel…something. Like an itch under my skin, but I don’t exactly know where it’s coming from.”

“Interesting.” The floor beneath them burst into brilliant blue light. It extended in a circle about six feet in diameter, then rose up around them in shimmering translucent walls that closed in a dome above their heads.

“Why doesn’t it look like that all the time?”

“Because Aspect isn’t naturally visible. No point in telegraphing to everyone else what you’re doing with it. You have to add a witchlight spell to make it seen. It’s something we do for small children. If they’re having difficulty feeling their way through spell construction, sometimes they do better if they can see it.” She straightened her shoulders, as if bracing for bad news. “What did your grandmother have to say?”

He grimaced. “First, she interrogated me about the state of my health. Then she told me how disappointed she was that I didn’t call her immediately, and went on in great detail for a solid ten minutes about what a difficult child I was to raise, and did I have no respect for how few nerves she has left. Then she asked about you. Despite explaining the truth of our ‘marriage,’ she would like me to offer you her congratulations on, and this is a direct quote, ‘finally tying me down.’”

If Meredith had been drinking anything, she probably would have choked on it, by the look on her face. She swallowed. “And with regards to the whole Shifters, Aspecters, potential peace agreement thing?”

“That’s the worrisome part. She took it well. Too well. She is, and I’m quoting again, ‘excited to move our enclave into a new era of magical acceptance.’”

“That’s…good, right?”

He’d like to think so. “Grams raised me. Rebekah King wasn’t exactly a warm, knit-you-a-sweater-for-Christmas kind of parent. Don’t get me wrong, she loves me, and she was never unfair, and technically she does knit, but she raised me in the same way she rules the enclave—with an iron fist.

“When I came down here, I did it without telling anyone where I was going. She would have ordered me not to go within a hundred miles of Seclusion. Then I got taken. Then I told you about Shifters. Then my ex and my crazy cousins decided they needed to rescue me, so I am now responsible for getting them involved in this mess and outing our entire species to our most-feared nemesis.

“She didn’t have a single reproachful word for any of that. She just commented on how lovely it was that the Aspect leader sounded like such a reasonable person to negotiate with, and does Meredith like beef jerky, because she just finished a new batch and she would love to bring her new daughter-in-law some, and why did I not know that answer about my own wife?”

“I like beef jerky.”

“Great.” He texted Grams that information and ignored the four other texts from her asking various questions about Meredith’s preferences.

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