Flesh and Blood by Willow Rose

Author:Willow Rose [Rose, Willow]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BUOY MEDIA
Published: 2018-02-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Four

My parents left the kitchen. I was simply standing there, a million thoughts running through my mind, feeling like they might as well have punched me in the stomach.

Homeschooling? Homeschooling?

The thought made it hard to even breathe. The thought of having to spend the entire day inside this house with my mother all day, every day…

Every day!

I gasped for air and looked at my brother, who was still sitting eerily still in his chair, having not moved a muscle all this time. He was staring at me from the corner of the kitchen, a smirk on his lips.

I rubbed my forehead and leaned forward, breathing in raspy breaths. I heard my brother chuckle.

"What?" I asked. "You think it’s funny?"

He didn't say anything. He merely stared at me with his blazing emerald eyes. His lips were so red they stood out against his paper-white skin. The dog looked at him, then whimpered and left the kitchen.

I felt so angry with him, I wanted to punch him, to wipe that smirk off his face.

"You think it’s funny?" I asked again.

He chuckled. "Well, yeah."

"Well, I don't," I said and approached him, wanting to face him, to even punch him for thinking this was funny. But as I did, I felt a cold emerge from him, almost rushing over me, causing me to freeze and stop. I stared at my brother, unable to recognize anything about him. The smirk became a grin. Not a grin he would ordinarily give me, no, this was vicious. Malevolent and it scared me slightly.

"You want me to tell them about your little nightly adventures, huh?" I asked. "Maybe they'll homeschool you as well. Then you can see what it’s like. That it really isn't that funny."

I had thought the threat would at least wipe the grin off his face, but it didn't. It only made it worse.

"You wouldn't dare to," he said with a small hiss, sounding an awful lot like our mother.

"Yeah, really? Well maybe I do and maybe I don't. Try me. If you dare, that is."

He scoffed and got up. He moved toward the door, looking like he almost floated, but I thought I had to have seen that wrong.

"Fine," I said. "Maybe you can just sneak out like you always do and get yourself shot."

That made him stop. He turned and looked at me.

"Haven't you heard?" I asked. "They're bringing guns out there tonight to shoot the beast. The one that attacked the girl the other night. They think it might be a wolf. The entire town is going hunting."

Adrian stared at me for a few seconds, then shrugged. "So what?"

He walked away, while I yelled after him, surprised, "Don't you even care?"

I sat down at the breakfast counter with a sigh.

Come Monday, he will be your only ally around here. He will be your only contact to the outside world.

The future suddenly didn't seem very bright.

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