Free Demonsense (Demonsense series Book 1) by Sara DeHaven Page A

from home had followed me here?”  
    Kevin let his breath out in a whoosh, face falling. “Oh, I guess not. Not that, anyway,” he said cryptically. “But really, Daniel, what else could it be?”
    Daniel’s eyes flashed to Bree. “Oh no, nothing to do with me,” Bree answered his look. “I’ve just done exorcisms, taint clearings and the like. And until a couple of weeks ago, I hadn’t done a real working in a year and a half, not since… not since my husband Seth passed away,” she forced herself to finish.
    “Look, there are only so many possibilities. To break wards I set would take a good number of people, or several true high powered. The first thing that jumps to my mind is the Keltoi,” Kevin said.
    “Or the Ecclesias,” Daniel shot back.  
    “Now you’re being paranoid,” Kevin answered shortly.
    “Am I?” Daniel replied, and another long look passed between them.  
    “Okay, wait,” Bree broke in. “Why on earth would it be the Ecclesias? They’d just send a couple of Keepers out if one of us had broken some law. The forced entry thing just doesn’t make any sense for the Ecclesias.”
    Neither of the men answered her, and she caught tells that both men were dismissing her argument and did think it could have been the Ecclesias. It was a very sobering thought. Somehow worse than if it had been the Keltoi. That she could understand. That was organized crime of the powered kind, too often allied with demons, and who knew what they were capable of. The Ecclesias could be medieval in its politics and at rare times draconian in its penalties, but it was the law when it came to the powered. She thought of the Ecclesias, ultimately, as a force for good. The idea that they would try to forcibly enter someone’s house, bringing in someone possessed, threw all she knew about the Ecclesias into doubt.
    “Think about it,” Daniel said, as he threw himself down into a chair, long legs sprawled out in front of him. “The only reason to try to force an entry rather than opting to try to trick your way past the wards with an invitation would be if you expected to be recognized and opposed in getting what you want.”
    “Daniel,” Bree said slowly, thinking out loud, “who or what would you recognize on sight?”
    “Keltoi I knew from experience or from Keeper bulletins,” he replied. “Some Ecclesias, though I’ve never met any of the local Ecclesias.”  
    “And wouldn’t you know a particular demon if it was one you encountered before?”
    “Maybe, but the greater risk is probably that I’d recognize a particular person. In any case, regardless of who or what it was, there’s only two people in the house a group of powered might want that I can think of, unless Bree has something in her past that’s coming after her. And that would be me or Hunter.”  
    Kevin was shaking his head.
    “Kevin, why is it that you had full, high level house wards activated?” Daniel asked, leaning forward, hands clasped between his knees. “Those kind of wards aren’t just meant for normals bent on stealing your stereo. And what do you know about Hunter’s birth parents?”
    There was a long silence before Kevin answered. "All I know is his mother was a young powered woman who didn’t know or didn’t report in the paperwork anything about the father. But the girl, she was Keltoi. So I've always kind of worried that she or the father might try to track Hunter down someday.”
    Bree felt a little stab of shock about Kevin's revelation that Hunter's biological mother was Keltoi. He'd never told her that. But she couldn’t focus on the new information. She was distracted by nervously scanning for any other attempts at intrusion. “I hate to be doom and gloom here, but are we safe? I mean, how do we know whoever that was isn’t just recouping some energy so they can try again?”
    “They’re gone. They won’t try again tonight, and probably not for another couple of days,” Daniel replied