Briar Creek Vampires 02 - Thicker Than Water by Jody Morse Jayme Morse

Author:Jody Morse Jayme Morse [Jayme Morse, Jody Morse]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-10-19T07:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 18

Lexi didn’t sleep that night. She lay awake in bed, processing everything that Gabe had told her. As much as she tried to ignore it, there was one thing that really bothered her.

Did her mom know that her dad was a vampire? If she knew about it, then she also probably knew about Wilkins’ Syndrome. Why hadn’t she told Lexi any of this? Sure, it would have been a bit difficult to hear that her dad fed from humans in order to survive, but it wouldn’t be any harder than hearing that her father had left them for good.

Assuming that her mom had known about all of this, why had she chosen to bring Lexi to Briar Creek in the first place? Wouldn’t she have realized that it was a dangerous place for a human to be? None of it made sense.

Lexi couldn’t believe how much her priorities had changed since when she first came to Briar Creek. Months ago, she had been playing detective to see who had left Austin his last Facebook message. Now, even though she still wanted to know what had happened to Austin and her mom, she had to figure out a way to stay alive. Gabe had said that he was going to come up with a plan, but Lexi had no idea what they could do to fight off a pack of vampires.

Her alarm went off at the same time she heard footsteps outside her bedroom door. Violet fumbled with the lock and opened the door. “Good morning, Lexi!”

Lexi bit down on her tongue. She didn’t want to let her aunt know that she remembered anything about the night of the accident still, but she was also having a difficult time being nice to her. She decided that the best thing that she could possibly do was to stop talking (not that she said that much lately to begin with).

By the time she had gathered her homework and school books, Dan was already sitting on the couch waiting for her. “Hey, Lexi,” he said with a big grin.

“Hi,” she replied, forcing a smile and pretending that she was happy to see him. Lexi couldn’t let Dan know that she didn’t trust him yet or everyone would think that her memory had been restored. “Ready to leave?”

Dan nodded and stood up. “See ya after school, Tom.”

“Bye, have a good day kids,” Tommy said.

Lexi looked at her uncle closely. Dark circles had formed on the ghostly white skin under his eyes, which had a glazed over look to them. He looked fatigued. There were bald patches on his scalp that she had always attributed to wearing a baseball hat or bad genes. She had heard Dr. Stevens tell Tommy that he was going to die in the near future.

Lexi wasn’t a doctor, but she could figure out the diagnosis on her own. Tommy had Wilkins’ Syndrome.

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