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“You’re right, supernatural is a misleading term, since by definition, all things are natural. It’s just you people see so little you have to add the ‘super’ for what you don’t see. See?”
“These are the side effects. I heard of this. There’re crazy stories, but they are just stories! Hallucinations… like all this, it must be. You drugged me…right? What is this place?” Now he was approaching full on blabbering.
“Oh, this is Fae Crossing, and I can assure you, you haven’t been drugged,” Etta said just as spiders began to erupt from her nose, her mouth, and her ears to make a beeline for poor Jasper.
Dax watched with amusement and perhaps a little disgust as the flood of spiders reached the chair of the hapless thug who began to scream. They were rapidly climbing toward his face. “Jeezus! God! Okay, okay…what are you people?”
Just as the first spider was about to climb onto his chin, they all vanished.
That’s a new one.As if the witches didn’t creep him out enough already.
“Yes, you were saying?” Etta pressed him in a casual voice, as if nothing had happened.
He looked around wide-eyed for an instant as Dax and Etta just smiled across at him expectantly.
It seemed he didn’t need any more convincing. “There’s a man. A contact. Julius—that’s my boss—was trying to set up a deal. The guy wants to buy everything. I think it’s supposed to go down tomorrow night.”
“Who’s the man? Where’s it supposed to go down?” Dax said, his voice booming with authority.
“We just knew him as Mr. Smith…I swear… really. Boss spoke to him a few times and was setting something up, but I don’t know when or where, but it’s soon.”
Dax looked into the man’s eyes. He was satisfied he was telling the truth.
“Okay, Etta. That’s it, you can wipe him.”
The man had just enough time to look suitably confused all anew before Etta simply waved her hand and said, “Bye bye butterfly.”
Immediately, Jasper’s entire body went limp. At the last second, Dax caught his head before it crashed into the table. He released the man’s head and just left him slumped over. He would be out for hours and would wake up with no memory of the events of the last week or so if he knew Etta well.
“I didn’t know you were so sensitive, Dax,” Etta joked.
With Bloom watching, I am.
Though he grudgingly had to admit to himself that he probably would have caught the man’s head anyhow. A fair fight was one thing, but there would be no honor in abusing the vanquished.
He looked at Etta. “How are we going to stop this deal?”
“That’s a very good question,” she replied as they exited the room.
As they made their way into the adjoining offices, Bloom pulled her eyes away from the monitor screen. “I know exactly what we need to do.”
CHAPTER21
“Let’s just take a breather here, Bloom,” Dax said.
“I just did,” she replied. “And you heard that guy. All they care about is money. Not the lives they are destroying.”
“Wearetalking about criminals here,” Etta chimed in.
“I know, I know.” She was so mad. She just couldn’t get the image of Dewey dead on the supermarket floor out of her mind. She couldn’t bear the thought of anyone else being hurt.
“I should have done this a week ago!”
She pulled out her phone and was already pressing dial for Rocky Clark over at the Herald.
“Hey Bloom, slow down,” Dax said, in a voice that was an odd mix of his attempts to soothe her, as well as some underlying anxiety.
“We have to do something! Did you see that guy? They don’t care how many people they kill. I’m calling Rocky at the Herald.”
