Club Monstrosity by Petersen Jesse

Author:Petersen, Jesse [Petersen, Jesse]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Pocket Star
Published: 2013-04-29T06:00:00+00:00

10

Alec froze the picture with their unknown adversary’s foot just leaving the frame and sat back against the leather seats of Jekyll’s white couch. He braced himself for the usual response from his monstrous cohorts. Crying. Howling. Whining. Bitching. Moaning.

Instead, there was a curious, heavy silence that hung in the room for so long that Alec locked eyes with Natalie. She seemed to recognize his silent question because she shrugged and shifted in discomfort.

It was Linda, of all people, who finally spoke.

“Obviously we’re being stalked,” she whispered in a broken, shaky tone.

She picked at her hand and didn’t even seem to notice when a block of fake flesh broke off to land on Jekyll’s expensive carpet. Jekyll noticed, though. His nose scrunched in displeasure and Alec could almost guarantee he’d have a cleaning lady here by daybreak. Maybe even before.

Kai turned on Linda with a shake of her head.

“Now, wait,” she said and her voice was sharp. “Calm down, everyone. Once again, we’re jumping to conclusions.”

Natalie burst out with a laugh that was anything but humor-filled. “Ellis died the same way as his story, Blob died the same way as his story, and someone was following Jekyll and Hyde. How is that jumping to conclusions?”

Kai paced the room like an Egyptian cat. Actually, that was a perfect way to describe how Alec had always thought of her. Sleek. Devious. Unaffected by anything or anyone.

He was a dog person.

Except now Kai’s voice was tense and cracked, almost as if the words she said were to convince herself as much as anyone else.

“I’m not saying these things aren’t bad,” Kai conceded. “I’m not even saying there isn’t some kind of danger lurking out there.”

“Then what are you saying?” Alec asked. “Because it kind of seems like you want to put your head in the sand and play dead pharaoh. Dead pharaoh is a thing for you, right?”

Kai’s eyes narrowed until Alec wasn’t sure she could even see past them. Then she took a deep breath and growled, “No, I’m just all for taking my time before I jump to conclusions. I think we’ve all learned that lesson over the hundreds of years we’ve been roaming this earth. Well, everyone except for Hyde.”

Hyde snorted out a laugh. “Looking before one leaps is highly overrated, my dear.”

Natalie folded her arms. “Except, in this case, our conclusion that someone was hunting us has turned out to be right. The proof of it is there on video. Why do you refuse to see that?”

Kai looked at the frozen screen and her lip twitched.

Great, at least something was finally getting through to her. Trust Natalie to just go the direct route—one Alec continued by saying, “Someone was following Jekyll. Even you can’t deny that, no matter how much you want to.”

Kai held up her hands. “Once again I have to bring up the fact that Ellis was an asshole who very well might have brought that attack upon himself. Whoever followed Jekyll could have been an admirer in a club, a business contact, or just a run-of-the-mill criminal looking to jump a rich person.

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