Page 56 of Lunar Desires
“Emily, I?—”
The doorbell rang.
Dad glanced at the door. “Stop this, Emily. Stop this before it’s too late.”
Mum’s screaming cut off, as if an emergency button had been pressed. She released her hair, giving Dad a vacant stare.
The doorbell rang again.
Dad tensed, his eyes darting between the stairs and the dining room.
“You’ve always been perceptive, Daniel.”
A heavy knock pounded on the door.
Perceptive? About what?
Mum smiled. “This is the end of the line for you.” She ran past him, yanking the door open.
The image collapsed, the blue light falling down like a waterfall of magic. A muffled voice sounded behind it, commotion, even laughter.
What the hell?
“Who was that?” Isaac asked.
Another small window opened up in the blue, showing Juliet and Dad again. Sitting in a car at night, her in the driving seat.
“What did you…”
The scene crackled, voices yelling in the distance.
My attention stayed on the window.
“Take this…” Juliet’s voice cracked, white static forming at the fringes of the scene. “…safe…”
She handed Dad a ring box.
“What….” His words were lost, but he opened the black box to reveal my diamond ring. “By Hecate…”
“Jonathon didn’t get them all,” Juliet said. “It’s cloaked. At least for a good while.”
He’d given it to me to keep it safe. To keep it with its true owner.
Wow.
“Riley!” Not Isaac’s voice, but a woman’s. “Isaac!”
Violence. Burning. Smoke burning the back of my throat.
The scene collapsed, the blue light snuffed out like a candle.
I blinked, immediately choking on smoke. It smothered my vision, making me cough violently.
In the car. In the back of the car.
“Let them burn!” a man roared, followed by a horrible laugh.
My stomach churned.
