Vespers (Hours of the Night Book 1) by Irene Preston & Liv Rancourt

Author:Irene Preston & Liv Rancourt [Preston, Irene & Rancourt, Liv]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Prescourt Books
Published: 2016-09-12T23:00:00+00:00

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“You’re not so bad, Mr. Dupont.” Nohea’s grin gleamed in the moonlight. Our brush with disaster had lightened her mood. For my part, I offered up a brief prayer, grateful the three of us were safe in Mayette’s old Thunderbird, our rendezvous point.

Sara and Nohea sat in front, and I stretch my aching legs across the rear seat. “Thank you. You showed remarkable resourcefulness in escaping on your own.”

“And that Indiana Jones thing you did with the whip rocked.” Sara’s grin had a manic edge. “You totally need to give me some lessons.”

With one hand on the wheel, Nohea guided us through traffic, away from the hornet’s nest we’d created at the old Charity Hospital. “On further reflection,” I said, “perhaps we should have delayed our exploration until the police presence had been reduced.”

Nohea burst out laughing.

“Ya think?” Sara snorted. “Did we actually accomplish anything?”

My encounter with Leo sent a chill across my heart. “Another offer I cannot accept.”

Something in my tone must have caught their attention, because they both turned around.

“What?” I stared at them, keeping my expression blank, reluctant to describe the visitation. “Nohea, watch the road.”

She slowed the vehicle to a crawl. “Only if you tell us what’s going on.” Behind us, someone honked. “Damn.”

“I have reason to believe someone has been plundering my past.” I silently begged them to defer asking for details.

My associates exchanged glances. Sara shrugged, and Nohea answered him with a grimace. “All right, then,” he said, “besides your cryptic allusions, Mr. Dupont, did we learn anything?”

Maybe he expected to pull the details from me in private.

Sara continued, “I mean, we found the crop circle thing, where you said someone had been doing something.”

Nohea snorted. “So close, brainiac. One of the rooms on the eighth floor had a circle of power on the floor and enough bad energy to make me sick for a week.”

“So how’s this for a hypothesis? Someone used a big empty building to conjure up demons and then dragged us into it.” Sara leaned against the headrest.

“No way.” Nohea increased our speed. “No way one guy could be doing all this on his own. It would take a committee.”

The Axeman did it, and he boasted of his crimes in public. I shifted in my seat, examining the implications of Sara’s theory.

“I overheard a couple of the cops talking,” Sara said. “I guess the first two who went in to investigate the lights have gone missing.”

That brought me to the edge of the seat. “Missing policemen?” Who had possibly been possessed by demons? No one person could acquire the power needed to control a demon-inhabited body for more than a little while. But if they did…

Fear knotted my belly, only to be burned away by anger. Whether these events were caused by one person or many, whether they were linked or the result of a random streak of horrendous luck, the demons had attacked my home and my friends and my past. I would stop them.

With much to ponder, we all kept to our own thoughts.

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