Love and Hunt

Chapter Eighteen

I was standing alone in the yard in front of the abandoned warehouse. I tried to calm down after the fight I didn't expect that my barrier could be broken by two witches I felt like I almost lost my breath. I looked down and felt as if my sweat was going to out of my body. I closed my eyes. And I realized that I was still breathing. I opened my eyes, and I didn't want my tears flowing down my cheeks. When I looked at the dead body of that witch guy, it stayed still over there, lying down on the ground. And I knew I had to go right away before somebody found me here with that dead body of the witch guy. I kept walking and approaching that street over there when I saw a police car passing by the road over there. I stopped and stood where I took my last step as a police officer came out of that police car. I saw the police car was parked over there. And the police officers came out from that police car. Both of them were approaching me. And they caught that dead body lying down on the ground over there. I could feel my heart throbbing faster. I didn't think I would run. They could shoot me. I didn't think I could get out of them. I didn't have a spell that could get me out of them. Then, they stood in front of me.

"Good afternoon, mam." The police officer said. "What are you doing here?"

I felt like I couldn't say a word when I looked at that dead body of the witch guy over there behind them. I didn't think every word that I would say could get me out of them. I was sure they were going to take me. And the existence of our kind would be exposed.

"I was looking for my dog here," I said. "When I have been here, I found that dead body. I didn't know what happened. I was just looking for my dog here, Sir."

"Are you sure you're looking for your dog here?" The other police officer said. "Didn't you find somebody else here when you've arrived?"

"Nope," I said. "I was alone, and I found that dead body lying down on the ground."

"We need you to come with us, mam." He said.

"What? I've just told you the truth." I said.

When they tried to take me with them into that police car, Grace had touched their shoulders. And I knew that they'd got trapped in her spell.

"I'm telling you that you don't find this girl in this abandoned warehouse," Grace said while standing behind them with her palms over their shoulders. "You find nobody here except that dead body. I'm telling you that you've forgotten about this girl, and you can't remember anything about her look and the time when you found her here. I'm telling you that you come to that dead body and report the finding of that dead body to the police station. Now, I'm telling you that go to that dead body, and the only thing that you see in this abandoned warehouse is that dead body."

Those two police officers turned around and made for the dead body of the witch guy, and I came to Grace who had been asking me to leave this yard by moving her hand to come with her. When she had gripped my wrist, and those police officers had left me, I was running next to her toward the street there. When we had been away from that abandoned warehouse, Grace slowed her pace and walked together with me.

"How could you know that I was in there?" I said.

"Your father called me." She said. "He said that one of Jane's butterflies found you when they were in the search for Jacob. When he knew that you were in trouble, he called me. Luckily, this is my break time. So, I can save you. Get out of there."

'It was a trap, Grace." I said. "It was truly a trap."

"I know," She said. "But I'm glad that you're a three-spell witch. So, I'm sure you're not going to die easily."

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"I don't know how she could get my number," I said while sitting on the sofa and facing Grace who wanted to know how that incident happened. "I thought it was from a witch from my Dad's side."