Nightside by Holly Hook

Author:Holly Hook [Hook, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Holly Hook
Published: 2019-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Riley remains silent as he drives. The way he stomps the accelerator after every turn makes me grip the edges of my seat, and not in a good way. He works his jaw like he's waiting for me to say something, and when I don't, he starts the lovely conversation.

"Why did you take my keycard?"

What else could I have done? And where else could I have gotten one but from his backpack? He gave me a bit of trust by leaving his backpack at school and I broke it. He's got every right to be angry.

My stomach turns. "You wouldn't tell me anything about Nightsides and since you left me alone, I had to find something out."

"Well, I don't know much about them," Riley says. His growl softens a bit. "Look, just stay out of this. It's safer if you just return the book to the vault and forget about it."

"So you do know about Nightsides. And I'm supposed to just walk around oblivious for the rest of my life?" My blood roars in my ears.

"It'll be better that way. Trust me," Riley says.

"What is your problem? If you'd just told me what you know in the first place, I wouldn't have had to do this!"

He stops at a red light which glares down at us like an angry cyclops eye. "I'm pissed because I'm trying to protect you and you keep putting yourself in all this danger. I can only protect you from my family, and even that's iffy. I can't protect you from yourself."

"Then just tell me what I'm dealing with!"

Riley pulls into my driveway so fast that I fall back into my seat. "Here. To make it easy, just give me the book right now. Plus my keycard. You can't be caught with that, Olivia."

I half-expect him to get up and search the Derp House, but he doesn't. "I'll get the keycard. I can't believe you want me to stay in the dark."

Riley eyes my house, opening and closing his hands on the steering wheel. If he wants to raid my place, there's not much I can do to stop him. But instead, he nods. "Now."

I get out, shaking not just with rage, but with terror. This feels like betrayal. It is betrayal, from both of us, to both of us. Riley remains in my driveway while I unlock the door. I know that it's possible the Beaumonts could show up here--they know who I am for certain now. But now they have a murder to deal with.

The keycard's in my backpack and no one's tampered with it while I was gone. Nabbing it, I open my window while Riley gets out of his car.

"Here," I shout, tossing it down to the grass.

Mature, I know, but rage has overtaken me. That hunger fills my body again, making my skin itch. And I just hunted last night. I'm burning down my energy and wasting it on anger. But I can't stop.

Riley marches to the card and seizes it.

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