Killer Pointe by Kristi Helvig

Author:Kristi Helvig [Helvig, Kristi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Edge Publishing
Published: 2020-05-19T16:00:00+00:00

10

I vomited onto the ground, my insides twisted in a violent knot. It wasn’t possible. Evan said he’d slept with his arm around her almost the entire night. I circled back to where Evan hunched over the empty sleeping roll.

He punched the ground. “I betrayed her,” he choked.

I wiped my mouth on my sleeve. “Tell me again what happened.” My stomach heaved again.

Evan ran his hand through his unkempt hair. “I had my arm around her when dawn broke. I thought we’d made it safely through the night … I must have drifted off. What have I done?”

“Then what?” My stomach turned again. Jay circled around an area in the woods near the sleeping roll.

“I … I woke … and she was just gone. I thought maybe she’d gone into the woods to … you know. But I couldn’t find her anywhere. That’s when I started calling out her name and you guys woke up.”

I knew Ava would never have gone into the woods, not even to pee, without having me go with her. And if someone had taken her, why hadn’t she screamed out or made a sound? I was a light sleeper and would have heard her. Tears leaked out of my eyes. Thoughts of Snow’s blood-drained body caused a fresh wave of nausea. We didn’t have much time to find her, or she’d be the next dead body in the woods.

“Did you find anything?” I asked Jay.

Jay didn’t respond and I noticed he was bent over something on the ground. Oh God. I ran toward him, and he looked up with an expression of shock on his face.

He looked almost as pale as Snow had been.

“What, what is it?” I pushed through a branch to where he hunched down.

He held up one of Ava’s bright green sneakers.

Sobs tore from my throat. How could I have let this happen? Ava was the last person who deserved this. She deserved sunshine and rainbows. Jay came over and put his arm around my shoulder. I cried even harder.

“Okay, we’re not going to lose her,” Evan said. He placed his hands on both my shoulders, looking me dead-on. “You’re Bree, warrior of Liralelle.”

I wiped my nose with my sleeve. I wasn’t a warrior; I wasn’t even a good friend. I sniffled. “How do we save her?”

“The shoe is the only clue we have, but at least it’s something. We’ll head in the direction where Jay found the shoe until we find her. We’ve got to move quickly though.”

He didn’t need to tell me that last part, but it got me motivated to do something other than cry. I secured my sword, and Jay grabbed his hoodie and we were off. We trailed behind Evan, who knew more about tracking than I did. He searched for broken twigs and breaks in the dense foliage where someone could have passed through, while I scanned the forest for possible clues.

“I don’t get it,” Evan muttered. “There should be some sign that someone came through here somewhere.

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