Jessica (Seven Sisters Book 2) by Amelia C. Adams & Kirsten Osbourne

Author:Amelia C. Adams & Kirsten Osbourne [Adams, Amelia C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-13T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Jake crept down the stairs of his grandmother’s house, his jacket draped over his arm. He unlocked the door carefully and then slipped outside, pulling the door closed behind him.

He walked down the street, glancing from side to side as though worried about being followed. He turned left and then right, his footsteps slowing as he became tired. On and on he went, trudging through the dark streets that glistened just a bit from leftover rain. The streetlights were the only thing keeping the night from swallowing him.

At last, he reached his destination and entered the cemetery. He walked down the rows quickly, obviously knowing where he was going. When he got to the last row on the north, he stopped and knelt down at a gravestone that read Amy Rohan Morgan.

***

Jessica’s phone rang and woke her up. Her heart pounded as she scrambled to answer—she’d been sleeping deeply, and she’d never liked being scared awake. Well, not that anyone really did like it, but she particularly hated it.

“Hello?” she mumbled after almost dropping the receiver in her clumsy haste.

“Jessica? It’s Jean Rohan. I’m so sorry to bother you in the middle of the night, but Jake’s missing, and I don’t know what to do.”

“It’s all right, Mrs. Rohan. You can always call me, day or night.” She rubbed a hand across her face. “I’ll get dressed and drive around your neighborhood, all right? He can’t have gone far.”

“You’d do that? Oh, thank you, dear. I was about to call the police, but I just had the thought that I should call you first.”

“I’ll go take a look, and if I can’t find him after about an hour, then we’ll call the police.”

“All right. Thank you, dear.”

Jessica hung up, then blinked a few times to pull her thoughts together. She knew very well where Jake was. Now she just had to wake up enough to go get him.

She took off her pajamas and pulled on some jeans and a T-shirt, then splashed some cold water on her face. She grabbed a couple of granola bars from the kitchen, remembering that Jake had looked hungry in her dream—although she wasn’t sure how someone looked hungry unless they had lost a bunch of weight or something—and headed out.

It only took her a short time to reach the cemetery. Thankfully, it wasn’t one of those with huge iron gates that were locked closed every night. Instead, it was a smaller lot, with maybe two hundred headstones, and there wasn’t a gate. She parked and walked the same path she’d seen Jake follow, and within just a few minutes, she found him, sitting in the dark next to his mother’s grave.

“Hey,” she said softly, not wanting to startle him.

He turned and looked up at her, his face tear-streaked. “Miss McClain? What are you doing here?”

She sat down on the grass next to him. It was a little damp from dew, but she didn’t care. “Your grandmother called me and said you were missing. She’s pretty upset.

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