Clarity (BLACKWOOD AFTER DARK #3) by Christina C Jones EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Acurse.
It had to be.
What I’d done to deserve the fate I’d just happened on, laid out in front
of me in unambiguous terms in the ancient grimoire I’d just delicately
unpacked from tissue, I had no clue.
But a curse it certainly was.
I ran my fingers over the words on the crumbling parchment—dark,
red-brown lettering with an odor suspiciously reminiscent of… copper.
Lingering, after all this time.
This was a hard-won artifact, hunted down over years of searching,
scheming, lying, bribing… but I’d done worse for lesser treasures. When I
finally found it, it barely felt real. The merchant knew it was valuable when
it was discovered buried in a trunk with a bunch of other old books, but no
idea how valuable.
I’d purchased the whole lot to avoid showing my hand, resisted the urge
to insist on showing up in person.
Honestly?
I’d have paid triple the asking price to get my hands on it.
To get one of my family’s ancient texts back into my possession, to
maybe understand the genesis of our… decimation.
And indeed, I’d found a written accounting of our history, from before it
happened.
Words foretold, instead of remembered.
Larivye.
Seeing my name written there, centuries before I was born, had set my
chest aflutter.
The words that followed made my heart drop into my stomach, sitting
like a boulder of acid.
Dramatic?
Maybe.
But… my supposed fate was one I couldn’t fathom.
I slammed the book closed, unable—or maybe just unwilling—to let the
words sit there in the open, uncovered and available for anyone to see… to
believe.
I couldn’t believe it.
Wouldn’t believe it.
Except the nagging voice at the back of my mind told me it wasn’t
really a choice.
It wasn’t something I could run from, not really.
But it wouldn’t stop me from trying.
I hopped up from where I’d been seated, knowing exactly what I
needed.
The talisman.
I went first to where it should’ve been, and couldn’t find it.
Then I looked where it could’ve been, and it wasn’t there either.
So… where the hell is it?
Thus began a much, much more desperate search.
“What’s going on?” I jumped, startled at the sound of voices; my
friends, Celeste and Ambrosia.
I’d been so consumed in wondering about the necklace I hadn’t heard
knocking… So why were they in my home?
“What are you guys doing here?” I asked, hands full of the contents of
the trunk I was searching.
“We were coming to see the antique dildo collection, but you’re clearly
occupied,” Celeste said. “What are you doing?”
“I’m looking for something.”
“Well duh,” Brosia said, her gaze darting around my bedroom, which I
hadn’t realized I’d trashed until just now. “What though?”
“Uhhh… a necklace,” I said. “I know I had it.”
“Did you know your front door was open?” Brosia asked, and my eyes
went wide. In my excitement for the delivery, I must’ve dragged the box
holding the trunk inside without ever bothering to go back and actually
close the door. “Is the necklace like, an emergency?”
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