“She will kill you.”
It didn’t take me more than a frication of a second to realize who he was talking about.
Mina.
In all of my research, in all of my thinking about this trip, I hadn’t given her a single thought. It brought an icy cold rush of goose flesh to my skin.
My eyes went wide and I searched the shadows that were beyond the illumination of the fireplace’s reach for…her.
Logic whispered in the back of my head. If she wanted you dead, and if she was here, you’d already be a cooling corpse.
“Not here, then.” I whispered.
“No,” I could feel him in the room with me, physically and not just the sliver of his mind. “She was called away to other… important matters.” The velvet of his voice caught on those last two words.
Julie M Anderson 