Order and Chaos (The Vampires of Shadow Hills Book 9) by Willow Rose

Author:Willow Rose [Rose, Willow]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BUOY MEDIA
Published: 2018-12-17T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Three

I was a mess. So was Amy. We called Jayden's dad, Sheriff Smith, and watched as they pulled Carina Robinson's entire body from beneath the bushes. I gasped as I saw how her chest had been ripped open by big claws and her face disfigured.

"It looks like an animal attack," the sheriff said, worried.

"That's one big animal," his deputy said.

Sheriff Smith gave him a look, then glanced cautiously at Amy and me before nodding. "Yeah, well, not the first around here."

"A mountain lion perhaps?" his deputy said and looked up toward the mountains. "Or a bear?"

"Maybe it was a wolf," another voice said.

We looked up and into the very narrow eyes of a spider-woman. I gasped and pulled away. She wasn't alone. Behind her stood six of the spider-men. All were wearing long black coats. The woman in front showed Jayden's dad a badge. I hadn't seen her before on our street. She looked like the men except for a small stripe of black hair across her round bald head and a red birthmark on her neck shaped like an hourglass. Other than that, she looked just like the men standing behind her with their long skinny legs, round heads, and lipless smiles.

"FBI," she said. "We're taking over here now."

"Excuse me?" Sheriff Smith said. "The FBI is taking over the case of an animal attack?"

The spider-woman nodded. "Yes. We need you to clear the area."

She turned her head like an owl and looked at Amy and me. Amy whimpered and held me tight.

"This is a crime scene, and I don't want anything—or anyone—contaminating it."

Jayden's dad stepped up. "Wait a minute, Mrs…?"

"Mactans. Agent L. Mactans," she said.

"Mrs. Mactans," the sheriff repeated. "So far, I don't see how this has anything to do with…"

She lifted a hand to stop him. "Take it up with your superior. I don't have time for this."

"But…" Jayden's dad tried, but there was no more he could do. The woman would no longer listen to him. The place was soon swarmed by long-legged policemen swaying back and forth, and we were told to leave. Sheriff Smith called his superior but was told this was in the hands of the FBI now. He would just have to let it go.

"I guess they’ve taken over now," he said with a deep sigh as we walked back to our cars.

Amy was still shaking as we reached her truck and I told her I would give her a ride home. No one spoke in my car as we drove toward our street. I felt sick to my stomach, thinking about what had happened to Carina Robinson, and my mind kept circling about the skin in my trunk. It didn't just look like Ruelle. If I didn't know any better, I would say it was Ruelle. How was it even possible to create a skin to look exactly like her? Looking so much like her that her parents and her boyfriend were all fooled?

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.