Page 72 of Mortal Desires

“Sometimes.” She shrugged with a smile on her lips.

I grasped her hand saying sorry under my breath before saying the words stuck in my throat. “I don’t think you should get the others yet.”

Marnie reeled back like I slapped her. “Why not?”

“They are safe with their soulmates and they aren’t safe here. Not with Dad around. We need to get to him first. Bringing our sisters together might be exactly what he’s planning.”

Marnie chewed on her bottom lip, a worried look on her face that only meant she agreed with me.

Whatever my father was planning had to do with all of us. I bet he had no idea we were scattered around existence. We finally had an advantage.

“If he wants the Morales’ power he needs to kill the head of the coven,” I said.

“Elisa,” Marnie whispered.

I nodded. “Wherever she is, she’s safe. Maybe that’s why the meeting of soulmates took place when it did. Our sisters are better where they are. We can handle this ourselves.”

The certainty of my speech wasn’t exactly what I felt in my heart. The youngest brujas, one who could see soulmates and bake and the other who talked to the dead and felt scared, aren’t the perfect pair to protect the coven. But I wasn’t bringing Elisa here to be murdered.

Marnie took a piece of my hair between her fingers, a sad smile on her lips. “You have changed a lot since becoming the queen of the underworld.”

I snorted. “I’m not a queen.”

“The goddess then. You married the god.”

I groaned and she chuckled. “I like the new you. I like hearing your voice.”

I looked around the room, noticing for the first time what was missing. “They aren’t here.”

“They who?” Marnie jumped out of her skin and scanned the room too.

“The spirits. Usually, I can’t get a word in because they talk to me, but there’s no one around.”

“Maybe they all know you belong to the underworld now.”

“Maybe they do.” I sighed and then looked at Marnie right in her eyes. “We need to find our dad. We need to stop him before he can reach anyone we love. Can you find him?”

Marnie was ready to tell me no. I could see defeat in her eyes when she looked at me, but then something quickly changed. A flicker of hope passed through her features and she sat upright, grasping my hand with urgency.

“I actually think I can!”

It wasn’t just me who changed.

The human was sweating under his collar, hunched over his computer while I watched from behind. If my presence was disturbing to him, I didn’t care. In the end, they’d all meet me. He was just jumping ahead at the curve.

“It’s not that easy it seems,” he said to himself under his breath.

“What is not easy?” I asked.

He glanced over his shoulder at me, startled all over again.

Where was I supposed to go? Pilar went to her bedroom to make a bed for us, but then her sister followed and I wanted to give them time together.

I was bothered too, and it wasn’t just because of the human in front of me. I wasn’t meant to be in this realm. I didn’t like that a witch like Pilar’s sister was able to take me from my territory like that.

I knew the Morales witches were powerful, but I mistakenly thought they were powerful in comparison with humanity. But pulling a god like that?

It didn’t sit right with me.

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