Twice as Deadly by Christie Marquess

Author:Christie Marquess
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cozy mystery series, paranormal cozy mystery, witch cozy
Publisher: Tamsin Baker
Published: 2021-12-16T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 3

I HURRIED UP THE STAIRS to the library. I couldn’t believe I was late on the first day of my lessons with Kye. She would surely kill me for wasting her time. I threw the door open and almost stumbled inside in my haste. But one glance at the state of the library, slowed me down. In place of the psychedelic patterns of colors that covered it every time I came here, gloomy hues of grey dulled the area.

“Kye?” I called out to her as I hesitantly made my way inside.

I looked up towards the dome but couldn’t see it clearly past the darkness that canopied the roof.

“Kye!”

My heartbeat quickened when I didn’t hear her at all. I stalked through the corridors on the ground floor. The windows reflected no light. The whole library was engulfed in greys and darkness. I circled back to the reception and stopped dead in my tracks at the sight in front of me. A figure wearing similar robes as Kye lay unmoving on the floor. I was sure she wasn’t there when I had passed here before.

I slowly inched towards her on my shaky knees. My heavy breathing sounded too loud in the dead silence. A tremor went through me when I saw the woman’s lifeless eyes and red face, my eyes locked on her dilated ones. She was the woman who was killed last night. I stepped closer to take a better look, when a myriad of emotions reentered her eyes, even though she didn’t move. All of a sudden, I heard a disembodied, high-pitched yell from all around me as an icy breeze froze me to the core. I shrieked at the frosty onslaught and shut my eyes tightly

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