The Eighth Witch (46 page)
Authors: Maynard Sims
The boys slouched in a loose circle, ready to beat on the smaller stranger but somehow hesitant to make the next move.
‘You’re best to learn some manners,’ Gabriel said quietly.
‘And are you gonna…’ The boy stopped talking as his tongue began to curl up inside his mouth. As if it had a life of its own it curled up, and back on itself until he was choking for breath.
Gabriel turned and stared intently at another boy. The boy tried to look away but he was transfixed by the blue piercing eyes that seemed to pin him like a butterfly on a cork board, Gabriel’s eyes thrusting into his as if they were rays of the sun. A few moments passed while the two were locked in an intent staring contest, and then the boys’ nose started to bleed. He tried to stem the flow with his fingers but they were ineffectual. Soon his shirt front was the color of dead robin breast.
The third boy decided it was a good idea to run. He started to, and he got a few feet away from the others when his legs began to feel as if they were treading in quicksand. He was still pumping his arms, and his chest was heaving as if he was racing fast but his legs were all but going backwards. Then he felt both knees crack and he fell face first in the dust.
The Eighth Witch
A
Department 18
Novel
Maynard Sims
Four centuries ago witch hunters killed the seven Yardley sisters. Now Department 18 must battle…the eighth witch!
Four hundred years ago six of the seven Yardley sisters—all witches—were systematically hunted down and killed.
The seventh lived long enough to give birth to a daughter.
Now, centuries later, that daughter has resurfaced in the town of Ravensbridge, more powerful than her mother or aunts ever were.
She has honed her powers, can change shape at will, and has only one ambition—to bring her family back from the dead to seek vengeance against the descendants of all who slaughtered them.
Ravensbridge once lived in fear of the seven Yardley sisters, but they have yet to experience the terror of…the Eighth Witch.
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The Eighth Witch
Copyright © 2012 by Maynard Sims
ISBN: 978-1-61921-076-9
Edited by Don D’Auria
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