Drake Sisters 04 - Dangerous Tides

was I supposed to know what room it was? I don't exactly come up here that often. I have some questions."

    "How did you get past Hannah?"

    "She's busy making up some spell against me," Jonas said. "She looks kind of cute all serious like that, muttering to herself."

    "Her spells really work, Jonas," Libby cautioned.

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    "Not on me. Not so far. And it gives her something to do besides get in trouble. Where's all your psychic intuition? You should have known I was in the house. So should Hannah, for that matter."

    Libby shrugged. "We rely on the house to warn us. It knows you. You're no threat to us."

    "I am to Hannah. If she doesn't start taking care of herself I'm going to do something drastic."

    Libby looked up at the hard edge to his voice. His jaw was set in the stubborn line she knew so well. "I'll make sure she does. What did you want?"

    "Well, I've been thinking about how odd it was for you to mess with someone injured so severely when you knew how dangerous it was. It's not like you. You're always careful that no harm can come to your sisters. And then there was Irene. It was completely out of character for her to start beating on you with her purse. And I've looked at the erosion on the cliff. That landslide didn't just start on its own. Have you done something to some…" He trailed off and cleared his throat. "You know. Sorcerer? Voodoo queen?
    Maybe one of you conjured up a spirit and it's royally pissed that you brought it here."

    Libby burst out laughing. "Jonas. You're such an idiot. You know very well what we do and don't do.
    And we don't conjure up spirits, bad ones or good ones."

    "Well, something isn't right, Libby. One of the boulders was pried out of the ground and it set off the landslide. I found two slide marks in the mud, but no real shoe print. I went down to the beach and examined the boulders. Most of the rocks are still intact and I could see scratches from some tool. How would someone have gotten on your property to do that kind of damage?"

    "I left the gates open for Inez. I told her I was going to be on the beach. Maybe someone saw something suspicious."

    "You can't see up there from the beach and the way the terrain dips down, no one from the road would have seen either. Was Hannah home at the time?"

    "No, she just returned a few minutes before I came up from the beach."

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    "Do you have enemies?"

    "Well, of course I do. People think I can raise the dead. Just like Irene, they think I’m choosing to allow their child to die. If someone believes I can heal their dying child, but I refuse, don't you think they're going to be really angry with me, especially if that child does die?"

    "Have you had any recent threats besides Edward Martinelli?"

    "Take your pick. I get them all the time." She didn't want to admit to him she didn't remember who Edward Martinelli was, but she must have looked confused because Jonas gave her a brief hug, towel and all.

    "He sent someone to see you and requested a meeting, Libby. They weren't very nice about it and you said you felt threatened. They mentioned Hannah's name. I'm looking into it."

    She pressed a hand to her throat. "I hate not remembering an entire block of time out of my life. I do know I have a file of threats, Jonas. I can give it to you if you think it's necessary."

    "Absolutely I want it as soon as possible. I'm taking this very seriously and I want you to do so as well."

    "It's a little impossible to be serious about anything when I'm standing here in a towel, Jonas," Libby pointed out.

    "Harrington!" Tyson Derrick yanked open the door to the bathroom. "What the hell are you doing in the shower with Libby?"

    "He's in the shower with her?" Hannah squeezed past Tyson to glare at Jonas, hands on her hips.
    "You're such a skunk."

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    "How did you get in here?" Libby demanded of Tyson, gripping the towel to make certain it wasn't slipping. "This is the bathroom , not a convention hall. Has everyone lost their mind?"

    "Hannah let me in," Ty said. "And it's a good thing she did."

    "Why is that?" Libby asked before she could stop herself.

    "I'm going to throw Harrington out on his ass."

    "Oh, good," Hannah said. "Finally someone with the right idea."

    "I wasn’t in the shower with her,