Under the Blood Moon by Tracie Provost

Author:Tracie Provost
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BelleBooks Inc.
Published: 2017-12-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

BAM! BAM! BAM! Heavy fists pounded on my front door, startling me. Glad that I hadn’t started to spell the bullets yet, I closed the grimoire I was studying without marking the page and hurried to see what the emergency was. Looking out the peep hole, I saw Josh and Beau Roulet standing on my front stoop. I wrenched open the door before more blows could fall.

“You’re alright. Thank God,” Josh said when I let them into my foyer, his face a mask of concern.

“Well, yes. Why wouldn’t I be?” I asked.

“You ain’t answering your cell.”

I frowned and drew the phone from my pocket. The screen was black and it would not turn on when I pressed the button.

“Did you forget to charge it?” Josh asked, taking the phone from me to examine.

“Charge?”

“Criminy, woman! The battery in this thing ain’t gonna last forever. You gotta plug it in and charge it.” His concern had turned to a scowl now.

I looked blankly at him, not understanding half of what he had said, except that I had failed to do something important. “Sophie only explained the rudiments of the device when she gave it to me,” I said quietly.

Josh’s face softened then and he asked, “Did it come in a box or did she give you a cord with it?”

I nodded. “The box is in the study. This way.” As we crossed to the east door and entered the study, I heard Beau say to Josh in a hushed tone, which I was not meant to hear, “She been living under a rock or sumthin’? She’s pretty, but she ain’t too bright.”

The phone’s box was on the corner of the desk. Picking it up and handing it to Josh, I said, “Actually, I had been staked in a crypt for the past two centuries, not under a rock, but I believe the effect is quite the same.”

Beau looked chastened. Glancing around the room at the multitude of leather-bound volumes, he said. “I think I’m just gonna shut up now.”

Josh laughed as he pulled a black cord from the box. “Don’t mistake it, Beau, she’s pretty and bright. You’d do well not to underestimate her. Juliette, where are the . . . never mind, you won’t know,” Josh said as he looked around the room. Finding what he was looking for low on the wall behind the desk, he placed one end of the cord into the wall and attached the other end to the phone. “Every morning before you retire for the day, you should plug this in to charge. If you don’t, the phone won’t have power and no one can call you. In fact, I’d better call Sophie and let her know you’re alright. She’s mighty worried. She’s been trying to call for a while now.” Josh drew out his own phone. His fingers danced lightly across the screen before he put the device to his ear. “Hey, Soph, it’s Josh.”

The steward said something on the other end of the line that I did not catch.

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