#Chapter 330 – Protecting my Own
Sinclair
I growl down at the man before me, who is younger than I thought he would be, for one with
such power. He has thick black hair and a day’s worth of stubble on his thin cheeks. The man
glares up at me with dark, angry eyes and opens his mouth to speak but before he can, I slap him
– hard with an open palm.
–
The man gasps with surprise and pain, his eyes going wide as he stares down at the floor, and I
smirk. I doubt this man has been slapped anytime recently, if ever. He has the smug look of
someone used to being in charge.
But he’s in my house now.
“You’ll speak when we tell you to speak,” I growl, and then I turn to the head of my
–
reconnaissance team, who is standing against the wall, his hands on his knees, panting a little.
Craig isn’t a small man to see him so undone by the efforts suggests that this diminutive priest
is, indeed, powerful in other ways.
“How did you catch him?” I snap. Craig looks up at me and does his best to straighten up.
“We followed the leads, sir,” he replies, looking me in the eyes, “that we gleaned from the
conversation with the other priest, who wished to remain anonymous. They were…fruitful. We
found this one’s lair, for lack of a better word. It was actually in a sewer -in an abandoned
maintenance room. He was living there doing…” Craig hesitates and then shrugs. “Forgive me, Sir,
for the dramatic language, but ‘arcane magics‘ are the only words coming to my mind now. Lizard
skins…and and snail shells, in jars – he had a cauldron –”
“Thank you,” I say, interrupting and nodding towards the head of my investigative team. “You.
will give your details to Alastair, as soon as you can. For now, though I want everyone here for
the interrogation.” I lean forward towards the priest, who watches me with wary eyes and a
clenched jaw.
“An interrogation,” I continue, lowering my voice and slowing my words, “will be long, and
bloody, if need be.”
The priest proves himself a brave man, then, by baring his teeth at me in a little snarl. But I just
laugh at him, which makes him faulter. And then I step away, secretly grateful for it, because
each of my muscles are tensed, ready to rip this man’s head off. Roger steps in to take my place.
“Tell us,” Roger commands, his arms crossed as he looks down at the man strapped to the chair,”
who you are. And what your people want with my brother’s child.”
The man just grins at Roger, a too–wide expression that shows all of his teeth. “No,” he growls, a
little laughter in his voice now. Roger stares at him blandly for a moment and then shifts his eyes
to a member of the reconnaissance team standing behind the priest who whips forward a taser
and places it swiftly against the priest’s neck.
The bolt flies through the priest’s body, making him shriek and twist in pain, but my man, well
trained, pulls it away quickly. The priest goes a little slack in his chair, panting.
“Let’s try again,” Roger says, kicking the leg of the chair to get the priest’s attention. “What do
your people want with my nephew.”
My eyes narrow, though, as the priest looks up at Roger again and just huffs a short, humorless
laugh. “It doesn’t matter,” the priest says, shaking his head and holding his gaze. “Because,” he
pants, a smile growing on his face. “You are already…too late.”
And then he starts to laugh – really, truly laugh, as a crash of gla*s sounds and a scream erupts
upstairs –
And my heart stops as I recognize it, instantly, as Ella.
Ella
I was just sitting here, tense, in my rocking chair by Rafe’s basinet, one hand on the edge of it –
as it always is – shushing him quietly as he falls asleep when –
I looked towards it curiously, expecting a little bird – maybe a squirrel –
But terror flooded me when I saw a black–masked face calmly tapping on my window, grinning
“I’m coming for him.” (2)
through the window –
I don’t know how he did it – it should have broken his hand – Sinclair paid to have those
forced his body, head–first, into the room through the hole he made with his fist, the rest of the
But the moment he hit the floor, only half an instant later, my instincts came back to me, and I
I shove the rocking chair away and back into the corner now, Rafe in his cradle behind me, as
moving unnaturally fast –
transformation – not yet – but it’s enough, now, to make it clear to the men who gain on me –
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The last couple of chapters have gotten sloppy, confusing her and him for she/her Sinclair is not a her. Isabel has changed her name to Elizabeth too. Making it hard to read. I’m loving this book, but I hope it goes back to its previous high standard!...