Drop Dead Demons by Kirk A & E

Author:Kirk, A & E [Kirk, A]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: A&E Kirk
Published: 2014-05-26T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixty

Nightmares chased me awake.

I was lying on softness and wrapped in warmth, the last dregs of sleep paralyzing my limbs.

“Don’t you dare send a team,” Aunt M’s voice roused me. “If I pull out, that only leaves Bancroft to watch…”

A door closed, and I couldn’t hear anymore.

I remembered Mom finding me on the swing. She’d screamed for Dad who, after making sure I wasn’t comatose, carried my groggy self upstairs to my room. Even only half-awake, I saw they were furious with fear. Dad redressed my puncture which had opened up completely and was bleeding profusely. They’d both berated me for not getting enough rest. I was asleep before they’d tucked the comforter around me.

I dragged my arms up, my shoulder only a mild ache, and rubbed eyes with lids that felt lined with sandpaper. My bedroom was blanketed in the dead of night. Van Helsing curled in a neat ball on my chest lost in dreams, where I’d like to be. Instead, something plucked the strings of my mind and nagged me awake.

“Ken, I think…through something and…but if those Hex Boys…”

Through my closed door, M’s hushed voice carried in and out from the hallway. Then the door creaked like she was leaning on it from the outside and…

“I already asked, and they won’t consider visiting, let alone leaving for good. The last time we talked them into moving closer, Aurora almost died. They won’t listen to us again even if…” The door creaked, and I lost her voice again.

My head throbbed, a strumming in my brain that suddenly flashed taut, urging me to remember something…important…

I shot up, ignoring Van Helsing’s grumble as he tumbled off my chest, and groped in the shadows on my nightstand. I found a phone and dialed. The vision’s connection to Fido was still strong.

“Aurora?” Logan answered.

“I know where Jayden is,” I whispered and hopped out of bed.

“Jump out your window,” Logan said.

I paused. “Uh, I said I found Jayden, not that I’m suicidal.”

Logan hung up.

A soft ping came from my front window. I edged aside the curtain. Logan hovered mid-air.

Oh. Sure. That’s normal.

I opened the window. Behind me, the bedroom door opened. I dived for my bed and yanked up the covers.

“Aurora?”

I remained still.

“Just a minute, Ken,” M whispered. “I thought I heard somethi— Ahh—!” She cut off her near shriek, then hissed, “No, it was the stupid cat. Give me a minute.”

Through slitted eyes, I saw M shuffle over to the open window. I held my breath, waiting for a startled cry regarding a flying Hex Boy. She looked out, then closed it and the curtains before rearranging the covers around my shoulders and heading for the door.

“Yes, I heard you. Cat burglar. Ha ha,” M whispered into the phone as she left my room. “What? No, I won’t back off. She tore open the wound on her shoulder somehow. Was so tired she fell asleep out in the cold. Could’ve caught her death.”

If she only knew.

“Protection is what I do, Ken.

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