Bedlam's Bard 09: The Waters and the Wild by Mercedes Lackey

Author:Mercedes Lackey [Lackey, Mercedes]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
Publisher: Baen Books
Published: 2019-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

Yesterday had been more fun than Audrey could have dreamed. She’d been spending the last several summers pushing Blake farther and farther in the direction she wanted him to go. Hearing him suggest they use that whiny little cow as a playtoy just proved how successful she’d been. She bet Blake had no idea how far she intended their little game to go. He probably intended something like giving little Ollie a good scare, get her drunk or roofie her, and maybe just get her clothes off and take some shots with his camera and post them to his friends to ruin her reputation. He wasn’t the rapey type . . . yet. But with her in charge, he would be. And then . . . there would go all his plans, and his family’s plans. Burned to ashes.

And no matter how hot the fire, nothing about it would touch her. She was eighteen this year, and that meant she had plenty of options. Go along with her foster parents’ plans for a while? Kill them and vanish through the pool in the bottom of the lake? Or—best of all—frame Blake for killing them?

The more she thought about that, the better she liked the plan. If she was going to make an exit, she wanted it to be an epic one, and what better than to stage a huge, bloody massacre, set it up so that Blake took the blame, and escape? Maybe she could even get him to massacre both families, his and hers. . . .

And Ollie, of course. Audrey was pretty sure the crashing through the bushes that had temporarily interrupted her and Blake’s picnic yesterday had been little Ollie Poole, and not (as Blake had insisted) a deer.

She’d been prepared to find Ollie a wet mess when next she popped in to visit the Webers, and had a variety of scenarios in mind to continue the baby’s mental torture. She’d been torn between rubbing it in, and pretending that Ollie had hallucinated the whole thing.

But now . . .

She’d seen the studly lifeguard bringing Ollie back to the cabins when she and Blake had finished their little rendezvous, and that had thrown a whole new variable into her calculations. Audrey’d had her eye on Dylan herself: he was good looking, well built, and new around here. The perfect plaything—if he’d shown the slightest sign of interest. Which he hadn’t. She’d already decided to make him pay for that little lapse in judgment, and if he’d set his sights on little Ollie, he’d definitely sealed his fate. She just hadn’t made up her mind as to the best way. Maybe Dylan should be the sole survivor of the killing spree Audrey had planned? No. He was a nobody, a drifter. It would be much more fun to make golden boy Blake of the Lake suffer. He had so much more to lose.

But Dylan’s involvement certainly changed things. How much did he know? And what did he

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