Angel's Touch [PUP Squad Alpha 7] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) by Abby Blake Read Free Book Online Page A

warlocks, but it’s peppered with words and symbols from other languages both ancient and modern.”
    “There’s French and Italian in there, too, maybe even some of the ancient dragon tongue as well,” Devlin said, looking at the pages over Ronan’s shoulder.
    “Damn,” Ronan said with a small humorless laugh. “Bethany made certain the information wasn’t going to fall into the wrong hands. Earlier this week Kali pointed out a passage that seemed to be a load of gibberish. She and Wilson ran it through dozens of translation programs without success. It wasn’t until they noticed a pattern forming that we were able to identify that it had been typed in the English using a non-English layout of the keyboard. Essentially Bethany had been striking the keys as if she were using a standard US keyboard, but it registered as different letters on the screen.”
    “The entire thing is going to take years to decipher,” Darian said in a frustrated tone. “I’ve tried every spell I know to try and reveal the information, but it seems Bethany used at least a dozen different methods of concealing the information she wanted to hide.” He grabbed the pile of papers. “Passages like this one are fairly easy to interpret, but then others may as well have been written by a crazy person.”
    “Are we sure that she wasn’t?” Lilly asked unexpectedly. All eyes turned to her and she gave them a crooked, apologetic-looking half smile. “Jed told me that the Oracles are usually of paranormal origin. Is it possible that the overload of information in Bethany’s brain tipped her over the edge?”
    “That’s just the thing,” Darian said, looking thoughtful. “We’ve always believed that the human mind is inferior to paranormals.” He laughed at Lilly’s quirked eyebrow. “Sorry, I phrased that badly. My point is that the Oracle’s receptacles seem not only to be tapping into the unused parts of the human brain, but to also be increasing their memory capacity exponentially.”
    “So humans aren’t inferior?” Lilly asked, seeming confused now.
    “Far from it,” Darian said with a warm smile. “A reliable source confirmed that the paranormal species indigenous to this planet evolved from the same ancestors as humans.”
    “Indigenous? As in there are paranormal species on this planet that didn’t evolve here on Earth?”
    Darian gave Devlin an apologetic look—one that Lilly noticed immediately—before nodding and dragging the conversation back on track. “Anyway, we’d appreciate your help decoding Bethany’s journal.”
    “Unofficially of course,” Ronan said in a serious tone. “Cassandra Lipton is causing Benjamin and Thomas all sorts of headaches with her by-the-book attitude. They’re not certain, but the orders don’t seem to be coming from her. Someone else seems to be pulling her strings, and until we know if they’re friend or foe, PUP Squad Alpha is treading cautiously.”
    “Understood,” Jed said with a nod. Devlin had been given his own share of strange orders when he’d been a Navy SEAL, but none of it had been as bewildering as the situation they now found themselves in.
    “So the Ruling Body doesn’t know Deeks Security is currently protecting the pixie queen from her own assassins and housing a half dozen miniature pixies across the country?”
    “Not yet,” Ronan said, shaking his head. “Fortunately, we haven’t had any more attacks since Jason revealed himself as the traitor, but we’ve recently discovered that pixies are far more vulnerable in miniature form than even they believed. I’d like to bring an end to the attacks before a supposedly indestructible creature dies in our custody.”
    “Shit,” Devlin said quietly. How was it possible that his understanding of the world was being turned on its head so thoroughly?
    “My thoughts exactly,” Darian said with a soft laugh as he pointed over his shoulder at Ronan. “Who would have thought these short-lived creatures