Creatus Rogue (A Creatus Series Book 2) by Carmen DeSousa

Author:Carmen DeSousa
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2014-02-10T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

Jonas smiled into the phone. “Thank you. I’m sure glad you’re on our side. I’ll get right on it.” Jonas hung up the phone and wiggled his eyebrows at his brother sitting across from him. “Got some info on Reece; he’s got a girl in South Carolina.”

“So?” Ry asked. “What does that mean to us?”

“He’s strong, Ry. If you’d seen him this morning, you’d want him to join us too.”

Ry scrunched up his nose as if he smelled something rotten. “I’m strong. We haven’t sparred in a while. I bet I could take Derrick now.”

“I don’t doubt it, little brother. I always told you that when you hit maturity, you’d be stronger than all of us.” Though, forty-two, most creatus didn’t reach their full potential until they were forty to forty-five years of age. Even Derrick, back when they were on the same team, had said that Ryan was as strong as an ox, someone he’d want to bring within their inner circle of leaders. Derrick hadn’t known that Ry had been feeding Jonas information for five years after he had supposedly been banished. He’d spent the time traveling from one family to another, finding allies.

His brother beamed. He always liked it when he complimented him. Something their mother didn’t do nearly enough for either of them. After she had to kill their father, she’d pulled herself into a shell. She’d saved them, though, and for that, Jonas would always owe her.

His father had been so proud of Jonas when he saw him jump off the roof. Thought that he had some kind of superkid. Margaret had always hidden what they were from him. Since he’d been overseas for most of their youth, when he had come home, they were old enough to understand to keep their secret.

One mistake. If Ry hadn’t hit the ball up on the roof, or cried after he did it, Jonas never would have jumped up to retrieve it, and his father would still be alive. He’d been so careful. He’d glanced around and made sure no one was nearby, but he hadn’t expected his father to walk into the backyard. He was so used to his father being away that he’d forgotten he was home on leave.

Not even an hour later, his father had picked up the phone to tell his superiors in the army that he was married to some kind of vampire alien. Margaret had begged him to stop, pleaded with him that she loved him, and that their sons were his flesh and blood.

His father had pushed her away and called Ry and him mutants. Freaks of nature.

Margaret launched across the room before he could even finish dialing. In less than two seconds, she’d snapped his father’s neck.

Ten minutes later, they’d left the house with only the clothes on their back. She’d left everything.

She’d carried them all night, running and crying as she stayed within the tree line bordering I-95 from South Carolina to Massachusetts. Even when Jonas insisted that he and his brother could run, she ignored them and ran all night.

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