Chapter Thirty-NineJack and Kiera passed the week by driving around Cornwall performing low level spells, trying to confuse anyone who might be tracking them. Jack and Patrick trained in the gym on a daily basis and everyone silently fretted over the scheduled meeting with the mermaid. Their biggest worry was that the meeting wasn’t actually scheduled. It was a maybe.
The night before their meet, Kiera and Jack sat in a comfortable silence in Patrick’s garden beneath the full moon, each staring up at it and wondering whether the mermaid was, at that moment, creating Jack’s own Eclipse blade or whether she was actually miles away, not sparing them a second’s thought.
Jack broke the stillness. “I should go to the beach alone tomorrow.”
“No way,” Kiera retorted indignantly, “we should go t
