Blood Brothers by Richie Tankersley Cusick

Author:Richie Tankersley Cusick
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

15

Lucy stared up at the bedroom ceiling.

She was holding the medallion Matt had given her, stroking it absently with her fingers. “Someone gave me this a long time ago . . . an ancient holy symbol . . . helped through some pretty rough times . . . give it a try . . . special to you . . .”

She’d almost forgotten about it through the drama of these last few days. She’d stashed it in her nightstand, where it had slipped to the back and gotten wedged behind the drawer. But tonight, after she’d washed Jared’s clothes, and rounded up more towels and blankets, and fallen exhausted into bed, she’d found the medallion again, and she’d remembered Matt’s words, and she’d longed to be comforted.

She still couldn’t make out the medallion’s design. Nor had she been able to discover what the carved symbol meant. The one time she’d tried to ask Matt about it, they’d been interrupted.

But now she squeezed it tightly with both hands. She’d been lying here for hours, unable to sleep and unable to turn off her thoughts.

“There was hardly any blood left in her whole body.”

The death of Wanda Carver haunted her. The last moments of Wanda’s life and what the poor girl must have gone through—the panic, the absolute terror and pain . . .

“The cops don’t want anybody to know . . .”

And Lucy hadn’t known either.

That day when she’d bumped into the cheerleaders, when she’d had that first inkling of Wanda’s death . . .

How could she have known then that the death she’d seen in her vision would turn out to be a murder?

“I tried to warn her,” Lucy whispered. “I tried to help.”

And what was it Byron had told her? That day they’d been together, an eternity ago?

“You’ll try to warn people, but they won’t believe you . . . You’ll try to save people, but you’ll fail.”

Lucy tossed restlessly beneath the covers.

It didn’t surprise her that the police would be close-mouthed about Wanda’s death. For a thorough investigation, they’d need to keep certain clues confidential. And they’d definitely want to prevent an outbreak of hysteria in the community. But who—what—could have done something this brutal to another human being? It couldn’t be human itself, Lucy rationalized—it would have to be some sort of wild animal . . .

An animal that could blend into shadows . . .

That could stalk someone undetected . . .

That could rip a man’s body to shreds with one bite . . .

A sinister chill crept through her. She huddled beneath the blankets, like a child afraid of the dark.

She was letting her imagination take over. Even an animal wouldn’t be able to do what had been done to Wanda Carver. Even an animal couldn’t drain a body of that much blood.

But what if it could?

What if there really were some animal that could do those things?

She was afraid to look at the curtains now, or the sliding glass door . . . afraid to peer out on the balcony.

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