Page 9 of Solar Shadows

I know what kind of cream pie I’d like to dabble in with him…

Silence, dirty mind!

He got to work making arrests with Jake, using their spells, doing their witchcop thing. The Bramble sisters and the two agent guys also joined in.

Before I knew it, the witches were all trussed up and bound, waiting for the High Coven van Jake called in to take them away.

I waited with Riley and Drake back in the car, wondering if those witches were starting to chew over the sunlight thing some more. Would they put two and two together and makeme? Hopefully not. And details on the history of House Aurora weren’t freely available to the public these days. I’d only known a sliver of info before I discovered my true ancestry.

The High Coven implemented a lot of restrictions on the world when they rose to power. They controlled magic, they ran the show. We were only permitted to know what they wanted us to know.

Speaking of knowing, were my parents aware of my lineage when they’d adopted me? What would they say when I finally brought this up with them? Things were bad between us already, and it wasn’t likeI had my brother David to confide in to temper things a tad.

Hell no.

Yes, I’d have to call them at some point to hash this stuff out, but right now they’d be staying on the back burner with the rest of the ball ache I’d left back in December.

Once the blue witchcop van showed up, everything moved on quickly.

“Why would she do that to a crystal?” Riley questioned, watching the proceedings outside from the back seat with his lover.

“The others weren’t happy,” Drake answered. “Such strange behavior.”

I occupied the front passenger seat, picking nervously at my fingernails. I’d be needing a manicure stat if I kept this up—a habit Helen often yelled at me about.

“I’m getting cult vibes,” Riley added.

“Me too, honey.” I turned the car heater up a tad. “I’m sure fuckface will grill some stuff out of him in no time.” My forehead creased. “If he’s still in a position to grill.”

I watched Ollie speak with Jake. I stared at him as if in a trance, losing myself in his stunning aesthetics. He ran a hand over his tightly cropped brown hair, sending bursts of electricity to my balls.

I seriously needed to purge this shit from my mind.

A flash of white light snapped me out of it.

“What the hell was that?” Riley spoke for all of us.

I rubbed my eyes, a second flash coming from the direction of the bumper cars. The Hecate Crystals shimmered brighter, looking like they were expanding.

“What is that?” I questioned, leaning forward.

The crystals never did anything but shimmer.

Flash, flash, flash.

This wasn’t good. My skin crawled with unease.

A tremor rocked the car.

“We’re out of here,” I declared, flinging the door open.

My brother and Drake did the same as the flashes became rapid, and a second quake made the car bounce.

Ollie jogged over. “I’m?—”

Before he could say anything, a white beam burst from the biggest of the inflating crystals. Light pooled on the mulchy ground, forming a rippling disk.

I backed away, throwing out a protective arm before Riley. “Be careful.”