Creed by Trisha Leaver

Author:Trisha Leaver
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: teen, Psychological, ya literature, Young Adult, teenlit, Horror, ya book, young adult book, ya fiction, YA, ya lit, teen novel, Young Adult Fiction, young adult novel, ya novel
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd.
Published: 2014-09-17T07:00:00+00:00

NINETEEN

“Let’s go get them now,” I said. Luke could help; he would help. “If it makes you feel better, I promise we’ll come back for Eden. You have my word.”

“We can’t. Not yet. We need to give my father some time to let his guard down.”

“How long?” I asked again. In my mind, right now was the perfect time. I couldn’t shake the vision of Luke and Mike locked in that shed, screaming with no one around to hear them. Freezing as the temperature dropped with nightfall, huddled into each other, hungry and tired but unwilling to sleep. The image was terrifying, but like staring at the wreckage of a deadly crash, I couldn’t seem to pull away.

“Dee,” Joseph said, shaking me. I hadn’t realized he was trying to get my attention. I was too lost in my living nightmare to even hear him speak.

I looked up and met his stare, pleading with him to take my side and go get them now. “They don’t have any food or water. It’s freezing out. They’ll—”

“No they won’t,” Joseph interrupted. “I’ve survived out there a lot longer.”

He took my hand and led me over to the chair, then picked up the papers outlining my new life and laid them on the dresser for me to see.

I stared down at the papers, the words blurring into one giant black spot. I went to say something, to argue my case for leaving right now, when he put his fingers to my lips, stopping me.

“Trust me, Dee, please. Play along for a little while. Like I said, once he lets his guard down, we can take Eden and slip out.”

Somewhere in this messed-up conversation, I’d come to the terrifying conclusion that I might have to give up control. Maybe Joseph was right—sometimes you had to place your faith in the untrustworthy to survive.

“What do you want me to do?” I asked.

“Memorize this,” he said. “If you don’t, none of us have a chance.”

I glanced at the papers, scanning for the information that seemed to be the most important. If I’d had a month, maybe I could’ve memorized it all. But less than a few hours wasn’t nearly enough time.

Joseph handed me the clothes Elijah had set out. I took them and exhaled. I got why he couldn’t leave his sister behind, understood more than he probably realized. And I wasn’t saying that I didn’t want to help. I just wasn’t sure I could.

“Can I ask you some questions?” I asked, and he nodded. “Why is your father keeping such close tabs on Eden? He pretty much said that it was you who would eventually lead this town, so why does he care so much about her?”

“She’s important to my father. Valuable. She’s the only daughter of our … ” He paused only long enough to correct himself. “The only daughter of this town’s prophet. The first girl to be born to the Hawkins family in over three generations.”

I shook my head, not understanding what he was getting at.

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