Endless by Marissa Farrar

Author:Marissa Farrar [Farrar, Marissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Warwick House Press
Published: 2013-04-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

The closer to home they got, the heavier a hollow, wretched feeling settled in the pit of Serenity’s stomach. She couldn’t help thinking she’d let her daughter down. She should have known Elizabeth planned to run away—if that’s what she had done—or at least realized she had some kind of life outside of her home life. Serenity had always thought she kept a close eye on Elizabeth and the idea she had some kind of association with this boy worried her.

The visit to Jasmine’s house had produced almost exactly the same results, with her parents questioning what had happened at the mall and mentioning how Jasmine had been acting strangely ever since. They’d been suspicious of Serenity, suspecting she’d had something to do with Jasmine’s behavior, and her turning up in the middle of the night didn’t help. They’d been reluctant to drag their daughter out of bed, but the imposing figures of Vincent and Sebastian had helped to persuade them. Like Emily, Jasmine remembered seeing the boy at the mall, but nothing more. The girl had no idea where Elizabeth was now or if she’d had any other contact with the boy in the picture.

“I should have known,” Serenity said to Sebastian as she drove, negotiating the debris-strewn streets, leaning forward once again to peer through the rain-driven windshield.

“How could you? Her friends said the boy had been staring at her in the mall and that Elizabeth didn’t seem to recognize him, which means they only just met. You can’t predict the future, Serenity.”

“We don’t know they only just met. She might have been ignoring him for a reason, trying to keep him a secret from her friends as well.”

Sebastian frowned. “Perhaps.”

“Why else would she let a strange boy into her bedroom? I raised her better than that!”

“She’s having a hard time of things at the moment. Her judgment might be skewed.”

Serenity’s hands tightened on the wheel. “What if we can’t find her and she turns fully vampire? How is she going to cope if she can’t go out in the light and is forced to live in the dark? She’ll not be able to go to school and she’ll lose all her friends. What happens if she stops growing and ends up being a thirteen-year-old vampire for the rest of her life? Do you have any idea how hard it is being a teenage girl, never mind being one forever?”

Sebastian shook his head. “We can’t be sure that is going to happen.”

Vincent leaned forward from the back seat. “You’re jumping to conclusions, Serenity.”

She ignored them both, too caught up in her fears for her daughter to think rationally. “She’ll probably never be able to have children or any kind of a normal life. She’ll end up being a freak.” She broke down into a sob, clutching the wheel tightly.

“Serenity, stop it,” Sebastian said firmly. “You’ve written off her whole life and we don’t even fully understand what’s happening yet. She isn’t fully vampire because she’s half you.

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