That Old Black Magic
“Somehow, somewhere, she’d drank way too much and now had to pay the price.Her eyelashes fluttered as she opened her eyes.“Eden, sweetie,” her mother’s brand-new voice said softly. “You’re awake. Good.”“Give her a minute,” Ben said. “She’ll be woozy for a bit.” Her throat felt like sandpaper. “Wh-what happened? Where am I?”“You’re safe.”She was confused, but her vision began to come into focus. “You . . . have you taken me to the Malleus?”“No, of course not,” Ben said. “This doesn’t have anythin...g to do with them. They don’t need to know about this. It’s safer that way.”Safer. Sure, now he gets cautious when it comes to those jerks. Maybe he’d learned a few things in the last little while.Wait a minute.She tried to push herself up and looked around the small enclosed space. “Where am I?”“In a van I rented,” Ben said.“A van. So you . . .” She felt her shoulder where the injection went in. “You drugged me and threw me in the back of a van?”Her mother’s currently young and beautiful face loomed in front of her.MoreLess
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