Page 329 of Oracle Returns: Time will Stop

It had been a long night for most of them. For Honor and Josh, they’d taken one for the team and took the call. It seemed that there was a double homicide at the Vanderbilt mansion where someone had been shot and killed.

Oh, and someone had bled out on the floor in some ritual, wackadoo killing.

Crazy.

They were calling it a witch circle gone wrong, and unfortunately for Bodhi’s backup ME, he was calling it a long night with two more autopsies.

There was truly no rest for the wicked.

Also, they weren’t the only ones who had a long night.

Bishop had too.

For the hours that followed, she stayed by her husband, refusing to let go of him.

This had been too close, and she wasn’t letting him out of her sight. So, Lucian got them home, and in the safety of their house, he closed their bedroom door, and slept between Ridge and Bishop.

The nightmares had been in full swing, and no one slept well.

But they were all alive.

That was a win.

For now.

Thanks to the dead, no one else had died in their family, and it looked like no one else would. That was a small relief, and it allowed them to regroup.

For what?

Meeting time.

Julian had called a Sunday meeting, and the family had been able to come out of lockdown.

EVERYONE.

From Pryce to Arsen, they all showed up when the call went out, grateful to have their dead back.

Oh, and the dead were grateful, too.

Julian not only gave them the accolades they deserved, he went outside with a can of spray paint, and reserved a whole spot for the dead. In it, he wrote their names.

‘Trey

Bethany

Jake

Mary Ann

Mary Beth.’

It seemed like the least he could do.

After all, they’d reached into Hell and pulled first Ridge, and then Lucian out, knowing that the darkness could have grabbed them, and taken them down.

They were heroes.

This could have ended so differently.