Love Sucks! by Melissa Francis

Author:Melissa Francis
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-11-26T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Rick came through his surgery fine. They expected a full recovery, provided there were no complications. He would be in the hospital for a few days while he recovered.

I wasn’t really worried about Rick. Something inside me told me he’d be okay. But Momma? I didn’t have the same confident attitude.

Her body was not responding to any of the transfusions. It was like she was refusing the blood. Like maybe her body thought it was water instead.

But even though her vitals were weak, they were steady. And steady was good. If we could just get her to accept the blood, life would be okay. Her life would be okay.

Lex and Robbie dropped me off at the house a little after midnight. Aunt D and I were two ships passing in the night, as she was just headed to the hospital to cast some major protection juju on the baby.

Robbie and Lex followed me into the kitchen. I went immediately to the fridge, grabbed three hemoshakes, and passed them out. We were all famished.

And exhausted.

I took a long pull from my drink and almost grimaced.

“Once you’ve tasted real blood, these hemoshakes just don’t quite do the trick, do they, sailor?” Lex asked.

“Tastes better than Mr. Charles’s blood, though,” I said with a laugh.

But he was right. The hemoshakes were almost bland compared to the velvety richness of real blood. And I wanted to taste it again.

Actually, I wanted to taste his blood again.

But there was no time for that right now. We had more important stuff to talk about. Like the runes that we hadn’t even looked at yet.

We all took a seat at the island in the middle of the kitchen, with our cans of fake V8, and wearily watched as Lex pulled the dirty brown package from his pocket and untied it.

He dumped the contents between us. There were several stones, some gravel, and one palm-sized smooth black rock with some weird lettering on it.

“There’s only one,” Robbie said, confusion clear in his voice. “There should be three, but there is only one.”

“Maybe there was only one to begin with,” I offered.

Lex picked up the rune and studied it. “No. There are at least two more. This one is marked ‘tra,’ which is three.”

“Do we need to go back and look again?” I asked.

“No. They’re not there. I’m sure we would’ve been guided to them if they were. We just have to keep looking. And we can’t let Ryan get to them first,” Robbie said.

Sadness shadowed my heart with his words. The one person I used to trust the most was now public enemy number one. Or maybe public enemy number two. I was pretty sure the demon was first on the list. At least for now.

Robbie looked at me and smiled. “You did good today. Blocking me, that is. I couldn’t get in for about two hours. And that was during stress. So you’re getting there.”

“Thanks. You’ve taught me well. Now, if I could just keep the bastards out of my head at night.

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