Page 32 of Whispered Warnings: Part Two

He gets up and starts to walk over to the bookshelf behind his vast desk. Every step he takes looks like he is wading through treacle, and when he reaches his hand up to the spines, he has to use his other one to push it forward.

Reed jumps up and rushes over to him, moving his hand to where Sully is trying to push his one forward. He asks, “This one?”

Silence from Sully, who is clearly fighting against the spell right now. Reed’s fingers move across the spines as he keeps a close eye on Sully’s expressions. Sully is clearly fighting hard against the spell. He’s fighting so hard that he seems to be lockedinto place, his muscles tight, his jaw clenched shut, and his eyes determined.

Reed must see a change in Sully’s expression because he picks up a book off the shelf. Even from here, I can tell that it’s really fucking old, the spine is pretty thin as well. It’s not a giant tome. I’m not sure whether that’s a good or not .

Reed frowns at the cover and then reads it out for the rest of us, “Extinct supernaturals.”

My eyebrows rise, and my mouth drops open as words flee me entirely.

“Are you trying to tell me that Neith’s mother is a creature that is supposed to be extinct?” Ransom asks.

Sully winces, “Kind of. Fuck.”

He bends forward, groaning in pain.

“It’s okay. You have already told me way more than you should have, and I really appreciate it. It’s not worth seriously hurting yourself,” I tell him.

He nods and barely makes it to his chair, where he slumps, clearly exhausted.

“Thank you,” Reed says.

“We can figure it out with this book,” Raiden adds. “We are at least closer than we were.”

I nod enthusiastically, “They’re right. Is that why I need to be kept safe? I’m supposed to be extinct.”

Sully nods and then frowns, “Partly.”

“There’s more than one reason why I’m not safe? I suppose that shouldn’t surprise me at all, given my track record,” I joke.

“When you do your research, remember everything that we have discussed in this room,” he pauses, “Neith is not a reaper.”

Raiden nods, “I hear you.”

“You guys should probably get going. I have a meeting in twenty minutes, and I’m going to need to get my strength back before it,” Sully says, not so subtly dismissing us.

I grin, “You got it, Sully.”

“Come and give me a hug,” he says, and I immediately move over to him as he stands up and then wraps his arms around me. “I’m sorry that I can’t tell you more.”

I shrug, “You have told me loads, and besides, life would be boring if everyone told you exactly what you want to know all the time.”

Sully chuckles, “That it would.”

We all say goodbye and then head back out to the van. No one says anything as we head home, and in actual fact, it’s not until we are all in the kitchen with hot drinks in hand that I break the silence.

Chapter Ten

Neith

“So, that’s not really what I had planned for today,” I start. “I’m an extinct supernatural and can hear the dead, but I’m not a reaper,” I look at Raiden as something else occurs to me, and in true Neith style, I start to ramble, “I’m trying not to panic, but I can get the voices back right? I know that sounds weird, but they have been a constant throughout my whole life, and although I want to be able to silence them occasionally, I don’t want to silence them permanently. I understand that I probably should have asked you that back at Sully’s before I just repeated the words, but in all fairness, I was overwhelmed. I mean, wouldn’t you be?”

“Neith!” Van exclaims with an amused smile. I glance at him, “In order for Raiden to answer your question, you have to stop talking.”

I smile sheepishly, “Whoops.”

All of the guys chuckle, and my smile widens. I am so glad that they are behaving normally with me. Although we now know that I hear voices because of the kind of supernatural I am and not because I'm crazy, they still treated me normally when the reason that I heard the voices could have been because I was crazy.

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