Haven Divided (The Dragon's Brood Cycle Book 2) by Josh de Lioncourt

Author:Josh de Lioncourt
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Draconis Entertainment
Published: 2018-07-30T22:00:00+00:00

Casey

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

“Are you almost ready?” Lisa called through the bathroom door.

“Almost,” Casey said. She put a little more of the dark purple eyeliner under her eyes, then examined herself with something like wonder in the mirror.

She didn’t recognize the girl—no, the woman—staring back at her, and she liked it that way. She doubted even her own mother would have known her if they met in the street. Her hair was cut shorter now—a little raggedly—and Lisa had helped her dye it a shiny black that made for a startling contrast against her pale complexion. The lipstick she wore was just a shade too dark to be natural, and the dark eyeliner hid the ever-present brown smudges beneath her eyes, transforming her face into something more exotic. The entire effect gave her a vampiric, otherworldly appearance that she rather liked. Even the fading vestiges of the sunburn on one side of her face seemed to add to the mystique of her new persona. She smiled at the face in the mirror, revealing a flash of white teeth. It felt strange to smile; how long had it been? If only she had a pair of fangs!

When she came out of the bathroom, she found Lisa sprawled across one of the two double beds of the tiny motel room idly spinning a half-empty bottle on the threadbare coverlet.

“Hey, that’s mine,” Casey said, coming over and plucking the bottle from Lisa’s fingers.

“Yep,” Lisa agreed amiably. “But I thought I should keep an eye on it for a while. Jeff doesn’t care what we do after the show, but no booze and no weed before.”

“I know,” Casey retorted, feeling heat rise to her face. She wasn’t sure if she was more upset by Lisa’s lack of confidence in her self-control or the fact that she had been considering sneaking a swallow or two before the show despite Jeff’s admonitions earlier.

“No sweat,” Lisa said blithely, as if Casey hadn’t just snapped at her. “It’s your first time on stage with the rest of us, and I just wanna see you get off on the right foot, y’know?”

Casey held the bottle between her palms for a moment, staring into its depths to avoid looking at Lisa. What had started out as putting off calling home for just one night had become putting it off for a week—and then another. Now, nearly a month later, Jeff’s little band, Landlocked, had more or less adopted her as they’d trekked slowly south, playing gigs where they could get them or drawing impromptu crowds in parks or on beaches where they couldn’t. If any of them had recognized the pictures of Casey that had popped up in the news on their phones or TV screens in cheap motel rooms as they’d travelled, none had commented. And they had to have noticed, hadn’t they? Her name was right there—right there!—marching across the ticker at the bottom of the screen in big bold letters.

Eventually, despite the pleasant fog she’d drifted in and out

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