Crown of Ruin by Keary Taylor

Author:Keary Taylor
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 18

We’re both sopping wet when a few hours later we head back to the castle. Neither of us brought a towel considering our swimming venture was spur of the moment. I hope Cyrus’ nice car isn’t totally ruined considering how much lake water we’re getting everywhere.

Back to the castle we go, and together, we unload the shopping bags, still only each wearing our swimming suits.

“We’re going to have to hire a new maid, just to handle all of this,” Cyrus teases as we climb the stairs to our bedroom.

“Don’t you try to put this on me,” I scold him, shooting a withering stare at him over my shoulder. “Who kept adding every single thing to the shopping bag?”

He only laughs and follows me into the bedroom.

I’ve just set them down in our closet, when my phone dings from inside one of them. I hunt through the plastic and fabric until I find it.

Amelia: OMG!!! You two are just to die for! Shopping AND kissing in Europe?? It can’t get much better than that!

I smile, beginning to reply, when another text comes through. Your dad has to be getting more on board with you and Collin now. How could he not see how happy you are?

A block of ice drops in my stomach, instantly melts, and sends ice cold acid rushing through all of my veins.

I feel sick.

My ears are ringing.

“Logan?” Cyrus questions from out in the bedroom.

Numbly, my eyes rise to meet his.

“Logan, what’s wrong?” he asks, taking two steps forward.

I shake my head. The ringing in my ears is loud. So loud. And I swear I’ve turned into a block of dry ice.

I take two steps out of the closet, but my eyes once more fall to my phone.

Your dad… Your dad… Your dad…

The words scream at me over and over and over.

She doesn’t know.

“Logan?” Cyrus says once more.

“The day the intruder beheaded you,” I say. And I hate those words, but even more, I hate the ones I have to confess in just a second. “I’d just been back at my parents’ house in Greendale.” I dim the screen, hugging the phone to my chest. “Cyrus, the men who came after me, they killed my parents. Tortured them. I’ve seen some gruesome things at the mortuary, but nothing like what they put my parents through.”

“Logan,” Cyrus says, stepping forward and pulling me into his arms. “I had no idea. I’m…I’m so sorry.”

Numbly, I lay my head on his cool chest. “I left Larkin behind to take care of things, make sure there was no evidence. Just a few nights ago, Eshan and I buried them in the courtyard graveyard.”

“Eshan is here?” Cyrus asks in surprise.

I nod. “He’s staying,” I say with finality, even though I know Cyrus won’t fight me about it. “With my parents gone, there’s no one to take care of him. And with what he knows now…” I shake my head, realizing one more fact Cyrus doesn’t know. “He spent four days as a Bitten.

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