Page 21 of Defying the Relic Hunter

The jerk held me effortlessly. “They would kill you for something Giuseppe did?”

“Oh, yeah and they would consider my uncle a traitor.”

“Voss is sending his hunters to find your uncle,” Zarek announced.

I laughed. “You won’t find my uncle, unless he wants you to.”

Zarek simply smiled. “I am very interested in seeing how you cross over the lost souls.”

“It’ll make you believe in heaven and hell.”

“Picture where you want to go in your mind and I’ll teleport us there,” Ethan instructed, pulling me closer.

“Did you forget about the hallucinogenic gas?”

Zarek glanced at his scanner. “It has been rendered inert.”

“Good. It makes you see stuff right out of a horror movie.” I frowned. I had never teleported before. What would happen if Ethan messed up and we ended up in a wall?

“We’re not ending up in a wall Angel.”

I scowled at him. “Get out of my head.”

“No. You’re mine now.”

“Excuse me? Yours?”

Ethan grinned. “Zarek gave you to me.”

“Gave?” I squawked. “I’m not a puppy. I’m a person. You can’t give me away.”

Zarek cocked a dark brow. “I am the Overlord I can do anything I wish.”

He had me there.

Ethan tilted my chin up. “Do you want to free those souls or not?”

“I do.” I focused on the area in front of the crumbling adobe walls. There was a fleeting flash of black and we were there. “I call this the Canyon of the Damned.”

“Aptly named,” Zarek commented.

Ethan walked inside the ruins and examined the backpacks. “There’s twenty-two.”

“Where are the skulls?” Zarek eyes were like bits of stone.

I pointed to the cave. “In there but be careful, they’ve rigged some kind of dampening field.”

“Not anymore.” Zarek tapped away on his bracelet as he and Ethan disappeared inside.

I reached out mentally.“Granny Annabel, I need you.”

The air shimmered and she appeared dressed like an Egyptian priestess complete with a black, plaited wig.

“What’s with the getup?”

“It is the proper attire when dealing with the dead.”

“It’s, ah, very realistic.” I chewed on my lower lip. “Do you think Giuseppe’s dad will call for a blood feud against Uncle Aldo?”

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