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“It’s okay,” I croaked, turning to face him. My skin suddenly felt hot and confining. I wanted out of my clothes, out of my head.
“Don’t look at me like that,” he said.
“Like what?”
“You know,” he said, closing his eyes. “You know exactly what you’re doing.”
I blinked. “I thought you wanted…”
“You’re beautiful. Of course, I want you,” he said, reaching to tuck a piece of wavy brown hair behind my ear. “But I know you still don’t trust me.”
“I do.” I protested.
“You’re starting to.” He nodded, cupping my cheek. “But you don’t. Not completely.”
“Jamie, I…”
“It’s okay,” he said. “Let’s just focus on why you brought me down here.”
“Right.” I turned back to the bookshelf and extended my hand over it, letting the enchantment in the pages sense my need. One of the spines slid forward. “Let’s start here.”
“Okay.” He cleared his throat. “I’ll follow your lead since I can’t exactly touch the pages.”
“Not unless you want a tattoo,” I chuckled weakly.
“You’d trust me with that?” His eyebrows rose.
“I told you I trust you,” I said.
His features pinched. “I think I’ll hold off for now. I can take notes.”
“There should be paper over there,” I said, pointing towards the small table wedged between two of the shelves off to my left.
He wandered out of my line of sight, and I turned to the book in my hands. The cover was made from black leather, and the wording on the front was faded, but I could just make out the title.Nécromancie.
“Great,” I muttered.
“What?” Jamie asked, setting an old pad of yellow paper down on the other side of the table, brandishing a pen. “What. Is something wrong?”
“It’s necromancy. Whatever made the monsters it isn’t good,” I said. “This is death magic.”
“Damn, I was hoping for some unicorns and rainbows.”
I laughed and set the book down, slowly flipping the pages. “Describe to me what you see when you look at the things in the woods.”
“Just big shadow things. Like the Oogie Boogie fromThe Nightmare Before Christmas,but with legs that are more defined. What did you see?”
“The same kind of thing, but there was a skeleton at his core, and every time it moved, it stretched the shadows out like they were it’s limbs,” I said, flipping passed a series of atomical images. I caught flashes of birds, animals, and then I found the humans.
“Have you heard anything about a creature like that before?” Jamie asked.
“I’ve heard of a bunch of things, but I’ve never seen any of them up close. Annie taught me about witches, about other wolves, and vampires. She told me that there were other things, perversions that the witches created, but she never gave them a n—” I stopped flipping my pages and turned the book around. “Does this look familiar?”
Jamie looked down at the diagram in front of us, and his eyes widened. “That’s it. That’s the thing in the woods. That was easier than I thought it’d be.”
I pinched the bridge of my nose. “Easy to find, but not easy to get rid of. Not at all.”
“What do you mean?”
