“All right. Catch me up. What have you learned since you left me at the morgue?” Agent Boone asked. He’d rushed me through the necessary paperwork to become an official DPI consultant. Making it clear I was not an agent and wouldn’t be getting a badge. Though he didn’t say it, I suspected he was…
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Government Witch Ep. 10
Agent Boone left me in an interrogation room for what felt like hours before he finally came in. He set a folder at least half an inch thick down in front of me. Even if he’d spent every second since I left him researching my life, there was no way he’d found that much information.…
Government Witch Ep. 9
The dagger repulsed me. Every instinct in me said we needed to get as far away from it as fast as possible. I didn’t know how Flynn carried it in his mouth to bring it back to his apartment. He’d brushed his teeth several times since getting home and still made a face like he…
Government Witch Ep. 8
Flynn still hadn’t come home before the paper airplane I’d given the coroner tapped on the sliding glass door of Lugh’s balcony. I opened the door, and it flew into the room. The plane circled me three times before landing in my hands. Writing on the wings said: 9:30 Come Alone. That only gave me…
Government Witch Ep. 7
I kept my perception-shifting spell going from the time I left the morgue until I walked through the front door of my next destination. Lugh and Flynn’s apartment building had a doorman, and I didn’t want to announce myself. I didn’t think anyone followed me, but I didn’t want to chance it. I’d never called…
Government Witch Ep. 6
Agent Carson didn’t apologize for his accusations, but he didn’t make any more once Boone and I joined him in the car. The further we got from the house, the more at ease I felt. I imagined the agents were likewise feeling more like themselves as we drove. As much as I didn’t want to…
Government Witch Ep. 5
Boone and Carson left me alone in the interrogation room for at least twenty minutes, but whoever argued in my favor won. After another ten minutes, I sat in the backseat of their SUV again, this time on the way to the crime scene. The silence between the agents seethed the entire drive. I considered…