Page 44 of Reignite

I shook my head. It apparently wasn’t clay.

“It’s C4.” He pulled the angel charm out of the grey mass and broke it in half. Inside was a very small microchip and some wires. “And this charm is a fucking remote detonator.”

Mierda.

Gray crushed the chip on the desk. “Where did you get this, Angel?”

“It was here.” I picked up the box and the card I hadn’t yet opened.

Gray snatched the card and tore it open. “You didn’t read this?”

“Not yet. What does it say?”

Gray handed me the card. The lines of a poem, I’d once thought pretty love words were chilling this time.

The Angels, not half so happy in Heaven,

Went envying her and me—

Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,

In this kingdom by the sea)

That the wind came out of the cloud by night,

Chilling and killing my Serenity.

For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams

Of the beautiful Serenity;

And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes

Of the beautiful Serenity;

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side

Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,

In her sepulchre there by the sea—

In her tomb by the sounding sea.

I shook the paper.“These lines are like the poem you wrote me, but like a cold twisted continuation of the verse.”

Gray practically vibrated with anger. “I never wrote you a poem.”

“Yes, you did, when you gave me the other necklace.” My words trailed off. The angel wrapped in chains had come from Serenity Designs too. I’d worn it that one day, and Gray had never said anything about it.

My voice trembled on the words. “Remember the day we went to dinner and caught the guy messing with our permits?”

He stared at me not understanding where I was going with this. “Yes. Does that dumbass have something to do with the necklace?”

I slowly nodded. “I was wearing a lotus necklace that day. I thought you’d left it on the bed with my clothes.”

Gray shook his head, looking more grim by the second. “We need to get you the hell out of here.”

“You’re not going anywhere, Baker.”

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