Chapter 330 – Protecting my Own

Sinclair

I growl down at the man before me, who is younger than I thought he would be, for one with

such power. He has thick black hair and a day’s worth of stubble on his thin cheeks. The man

glares up at me with dark, angry eyes and opens his mouth to speak but before he can, I slap him

– hard with an open palm.

The man gasps with surprise and pain, his eyes going wide as he stares down at the floor, and I

smirk. I doubt this man has been slapped anytime recently, if ever. He has the smug look of

someone used to being in charge.

But he’s in my house now.

“You’ll speak when we tell you to speak,” I growl, and then I turn to the head of my

reconnaissance team, who is standing against the wall, his hands on his knees, panting a little.

Craig isn’t a small man to see him so undone by the efforts suggests that this diminutive priest

is, indeed, powerful in other ways.

“How did you catch him?” I snap. Craig looks up at me and does his best to straighten up.

“We followed the leads, sir,” he replies, looking me in the eyes, “that we gleaned from the

conversation with the other priest, who wished to remain anonymous. They were…fruitful. We

found this one’s lair, for lack of a better word. It was actually in a sewer -in an abandoned

maintenance room. He was living there doing…” Craig hesitates and then shrugs. “Forgive me, Sir,

for the dramatic language, but ‘arcane magics‘ are the only words coming to my mind now. Lizard

skins…and and snail shells, in jars – he had a cauldron –”

“Thank you,” I say, interrupting and nodding towards the head of my investigative team. “You.

will give your details to Alastair, as soon as you can. For now, though I want everyone here for

the interrogation.” I lean forward towards the priest, who watches me with wary eyes and a

clenched jaw.

interrogation,” I continue, lowering my voice and slowing my

need be.”

his teeth at me in

him faulter. And then

of my muscles are tensed, ready to rip this man’s head off. Roger steps

arms crossed as he looks down at the man strapped to the

people want with my brother’s child.”

expression that shows all of his teeth. “No,”

laughter in his voice now. Roger stares at him blandly for a moment and then shifts his

member of the reconnaissance team standing behind the priest who

swiftly against

bolt flies through the priest’s body, making him shriek and twist in pain, but my man,

goes a little slack in

the leg of the chair

want with

though, as the priest looks up at Roger again and just huffs a short,

his head and holding his gaze. “Because,”

his

starts to laugh – really, truly laugh, as a crash of glass sounds and

upstairs –

my heart stops as I recognize it, instantly, as Ella.

Ella

rocking chair by

shushing him quietly as he falls asleep

heard a little tapping sound at the glass of his window

curiously, expecting a little bird –

I saw a black–masked face calmly tapping

I gasped, my body turning to ice as I froze, as he quietly pointed to the

coming for him.” (2)

pulled

the window

did it – it should have broken his hand – Sinclair paid

hole he made with his fist, the rest of

cracking

the floor, only half an instant later, my instincts came back

rolling basinet behind

the rocking chair away and back into the corner now, Rafe in his cradle

his feet at the foot of the window. As he stands, my heart jumps when

working their way up to the window

unnaturally fast –

now, grinning at me, starting

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