Of Wolf and Peace (Providence Paranormal College Book 3) by D.R. Perry

Author:D.R. Perry [Perry, D.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2021-04-28T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Josh

I needed help. Unfortunately, I couldn’t admit that to anyone in my pack except Henry and the sun was up. I picked up the phone and told Siri I had to talk to Beth. Don't get the idea that I’m an iFanboy; my parents buy the phones, and that’s what they like. I’d be switching to Android once I was the one pulling the purse strings.

The phone rang twice as I imagined Adele’s “Hello” blaring out of Beth’s speakers while my face popped up on the screen. Yeah, that’s a freakily depressing song, but what else do you expect a girl with one leg and a dead fiancé to want to listen to? Even Maddie’s old goth music was too upbeat for my sister.

“Beth’s phone, Kim speaking. Can I direct you to call someone cuter and less of a downer instead?”

My sister’s voice took on a strident tone I hadn’t heard since the day before the accident. Beth had been nothing but exhausted or weepy in all that time. Maybe the pick-pocketing Tanuki wasn’t such a bad influence after all. I held the expensive white rectangle away from my ear as the muffled whoosh soundtrack of their struggle for the phone continued.

“What is it?” Beth’s voice just barely drowned out the sound of Kimiko Ichiro’s juvenile raspberry.

“Gotta talk. Some new information and ideas came up last night, and I need someone to bounce them off of.”

“As long as you don’t ask me if I want to build a snowman.” Beth actually snorted out an honest to goodness laugh after that. So she’d paid attention the year that Frozen movie came out and I stood outside on the back lawn below her window blasting the damn song out of Derek’s old boom-box like I was John freaking Cusak. Good.

“I promise. No snowmen.” I snorted back. “Just an interview with your kid brother about a bunch of crazy theories.”

“No whiny vampires named Louis, either.” I heard a muffled protest about Brad Pitt’s hotness and then another raspberry in the background.

“Okay.” We’d never get off the phone with all the side-chatter. “What in Luna’s name is Baby Metal doing over there, pretending she’s two?”

“Baby Metal?” Beth full out guffawed. “Oh, that is rich!” I heard another tussle for the phone, then a click as it went to speaker.

“Who do you think you are, calling me Baby Metal? You big jerk!”

“You should meet some of his friends.” Beth’s voice told me she was either waggling her eyebrows or winking. Kimiko let out a frustrated little squeak.

“So, where do we meet?”

“I got it!” Kimiko squealed, her voice closer as she grabbed the phone and took it off speaker. “I’ll text the address.” Then she hung up.

And that was how I ended up in a Wickenden Street nail salon. I walked in, blinking at the design choices. Yellow paint with pink trim gave the entire place a girly vibe, and the endless chatter of the staff as they held hands and feet with the all-female clientele provided constant background noise.

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