How to Survive an Undead Honeymoon by Hailey Edwards

Author:Hailey Edwards [Edwards, Hailey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-19T18:30:00+00:00

Eight

Going forward, the buddy system was in full effect whenever we used the stairs. Even if I had wanted to meet the guilty trio in the foyer, I couldn’t get out of the room without Linus to erase the sigil on the door. With that in mind, I was left glowering through the window as they trudged to the porch with their chins tucked. Only when they were out of sight did I sit on the mattress to wait.

The sun was up, so Cletus was gone. Otherwise, I would have shaken him until answers fell out of his cloak.

This whole trip was fast becoming ridiculous.

The knob twisted as Linus released the ward on the room, and it annoyed me all over again to have been locked in and left out of the loop.

“Surprise!” Lethe bounded in, all smiles. “Miss me?”

Hood remained in the hall like he was scared I might explode and he wanted to stay clear of the blast.

Lethe and Hood’s arrival must have come as a surprise to Linus too. He wasn’t in the habit of keeping secrets from me, and this qualified as a whopper. Probably why he braved the room and crossed to me while the others hesitated. He sat on the bed and took my hand, and I read the exhaustion on his features.

“What’s happened?” I linked our fingers. “Why are Hood and Lethe here?”

“The Oliphants were murdered.” Linus brought our joined hands to his mouth and pressed a kiss to the knuckle above my wedding band. “Hood and Lethe need to cross-reference the Rogoffs’ scents to be certain, but I can’t imagine another pair of vampires are responsible.”

“Goddess,” I breathed. “What about Kylie?”

“She wasn’t home,” he said, and I heard what he wasn’t saying.

For her to have avoided the same fate, her grandparents must have had an inkling of what was coming and sent her away.

Suddenly, her subbasement digs made a lot more sense, and trouble at home took on all new meaning.

“We need to find her.” I read the same thoughts on his face. “She’ll be safe while the sun is up, but we need her secure come nightfall.”

“I’ll find her,” he promised. “I’ll start the search once you’re settled in for the day.”

The poor kid had hard news coming her way, and I wished there was someone else to deliver it. Having lost my mother and adoptive mother to violent ends, I felt kinship with Kylie over her loss. That didn’t mean I wanted to revisit my own pain through hers.

Years later, it still hurt too much. Maybe it made me a coward, but I was glad when Linus didn’t invite me to come along.

The news, however grim, didn’t explain the elephant—or should I say gwyllgi?—in the room. “How did Hood and Lethe get here so fast?”

The Oliphants couldn’t have been dead long. Linus had spoken to Mr. Oliphant shortly after the Rogoffs appeared on our doorstep. I wasn’t great with math, but Savannah wasn’t exactly a hop, skip, and a jump away.

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