Falling Dark by Christine Pope

Author:Christine Pope [Pope, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Valentine Press
Published: 2017-02-05T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Silas left not too long afterward, saying that he thought it better if I had some privacy when I talked to my sister. At the same time, though, he reminded me to call if I should have another vision, or if I needed him for anything else.

As I said goodbye and watched him walk down toward the stairs that led to ground level, I thought I definitely did need him for a lot of other things. Number one, to pull me close and hold me and let me know that I’d somehow get through all of this.

Since I didn’t see that happening anytime soon, I shut the door and went back to the kitchen, where my cell phone still sat on the little table by the window. I picked up the phone and held it in my hand for a long moment, staring down at it, wondering what in the world I could say to my sister.

Not the truth, that was for sure.

Well, not all of it, anyway. Maybe a distorted version of it. I’d been so focused on Lucius during our conversation that I hadn’t been paying much attention to what was going on with the rest of the people at the reception, my sister included. It was possible that she’d seen me talking with him, however. So what if I told her he’d picked up on me first, then moved on when I made it clear I wasn’t interested?

I hated to play those kinds of mind games, but that sort of gambit might just work. All three of us Quinn offspring were good-looking people, but my parents had always thought of me as the beauty of the family — probably because I didn’t have any other outstanding skills or talents to distinguish me. And while Vanessa had always shrugged off that sort of thing, I could tell it bothered her. Somewhere deep down, it bothered her that she wasn’t the “pretty one,” even though she was an enormously talented designer.

So if I made it sound as though Lucius had been more interested in me, then moved on to her after I gave him the cold shoulder, there was a possibility, however slight, that she’d be offended by her second-place status and would kick him to the curb. Of course, if I’d misread the situation, and it turned out that nothing physical had happened between her and Lucius, I’d sound like a complete idiot. Well, I’d gotten sort of used to my family thinking I had more than a few screws loose, so it wasn’t as if I had much to lose.

And also, I knew that my plan was a long shot, but it was all I had right then. After all, I couldn’t come right out and say Vanessa’s new business partner was a centuries-old creature of the night.

I hefted the phone in my hand, then went to the living room and sat down in the armchair. A delaying tactic, but I hoped being in my favorite spot in the house would give me some much-needed courage.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.