Chapter 15

"The card is the key."

What the hell was that supposed to mean?

Lydia had been able to think about little else all day.

Once again she was working late in her office. No big surprise. The campus library was still pretty active, even at six o'clock on a Monday evening. Plenty of people took summer classes or used the summer to work on research projects.

"All I see is red."

She'd gone home and done a reading for herself but all she'd been able to see was the Hierophant. Yeah, like it took the cards to tell her Galen was a major complicating factor in her life right now. The weird thing was she'd gotten what looked like three conflicting outcomes. And she didn't know which was scarier - Death, the lonely sorrowful Queen of Swords, or the visibly pregnant Empress. That one made her shudder and reminded her to make a doctor's appointment. She'd come to the conclusion that her own internal turmoil was messing with her reading and that she wouldn't get a straight answer from the cards un