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I studied the double doorway somewhat dubiously, then pushed my feet intoas ner shoes and clothes toOne side held fes, the other , intricately carved Chinese sideboards Now that ere close, the h to feel It radiated fro erous as the stones in the greenhouse below

I stopped and rubbed s hold"

"The accoutreest you do not atte that" Even if part of ic, donnedto find soly, all the --while exquisitely n If it weren’t for the ed to a tie In fact, they were the sort of clothes Jane Austen’s ain, there was nothing--not even a scrap of paper in pockets--to suggest that the clothes had ever been worn It was as if ere dealing with a ghost

But while a ghost could certainly haunt this place, one couldn’t actually own it

Frowning, I spun around and checked the other bedroo fat zeros

We headed downstairs The kitchen was all shiny black and fitted out with silver appliances, and while the result was pretty spectacular, all I could envisage was the erprints and dust that would show unless you were vigilant about cleaning Which whoever owned this place obviously was, because there wasn’t a speck to be seen

Thankful I hadn’t ditched the gloves at the warehouse, I carefully opened the drawers and cupboards All of them contained the usual kitchen paraphernalia, and all of them were as neat as the rest of the house

"Whoever lives here doesn’t sees," Azriel colanced at him as I moved over to the pantry He stood in thearea, ar to ju past investigations of places where eren’t supposed to be

"And what philosophy would that be?" I said, opening the pantry door

"To duain later"

I flashed hirin over my shoulder "Do my untidy tendencies bother you?"

"No I just find theical"

"And now you sound like Spock And I know that makes no sense because you have no idea who he is" I paused, anizer attached to the other side of the door "Bingo"

He was beside ?"

"Bills" I plucked one out and opened it up

My stomach dropped

The person ned this er

It was Lauren Macintyre--the dark sorceress as Lucian’s lover

Chapter 4

"If you were looking for a connection between our dark sorcerer and Lucian," Azriel commented, "I think you just found it"

"But Lauren isn’t the sorcerer we’re looking for Her ic I sensed when that first key was stolen"

"And yet the cuneiform on all the stones--both the ones you discovered today and the one you and Jak discovered underground--bear the saests she’s involved, not that she’s the one we’re looking for" I shoved the letter back,sure it was in the exact sa the key, not a woman"

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