Periculum: Unus (Devil's Playground Book 1) by Natalie Bennett

Author:Natalie Bennett [Bennett, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BB Books
Published: 2020-04-22T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

Ten minutes was all it took to prove his theory correct.

Kind of.

It’d taken longer to get Margo and Abby to join us at the table without physically moving them there ourselves.

I took a sip of water, almost moaning as it watered my dry throat.

Gracelyn had found some newly packaged crackers and placed them between us to share. It wasn’t a fry up, but it was better than nothing.

Ciaran was sitting directly across from me, adjacent to Mel, with the straw of a boxed apple juice wedged between his pink, plump lips.

“So, what was everyone doing at the resort?” I asked, trying not to stare at him.

“Susan had—Susan was,” Margo corrected, drawing in a deep breath. “Susan was recently diagnosed with dementia. This was our last hurrah. We wanted some final memories.”

There was a brief lull. I’m sure this wasn’t what either of them had in mind. I could tell she was holding out hope that her aunt was alive. I wouldn’t crush that, but I think everyone else knew better.

It would be better if she were dead.

If she wasn’t, the amount of agony she’d be in right now had to be unbearable. We’d have to put her down once—if—we found her. Like the farmers did their wounded or sick livestock.

“Heather and I were attending a seminar for work,” Abby divulged, sniffling.

“I took a pleasure trip to celebrate my retirement. I was a P.O,” Leonard said.

His made sense. Abby’s too, I guess.

“You know why I was here. I got kicked out of a bachelorette gathering. That was two days ago, if time is relevant. I stayed to enjoy the trip already paid for. It was the least Mama could do for getting hitched to some creepy asshole,” Selena stated.

Charon and Kyrous shared a look, then both stared at her.

“No fuckin way,” Maverick started to laugh.

“You’re the one who assaulted Kennedy,” Ciaran said. Not a question, a statement.

Selena rolled her eyes and sighed. “I threw a pool towel at her, that’s hardly assault.”

“You all know each other then?” Grace interjected, looking between them.

“We would’ve met Pebbles two days ago if she hadn’t attacked our sister.”

“You may have known about me, but I didn’t know anything about either of you until this very moment. All the more reason I don’t trust whatever the hell is going on with my ma and your dad,” she affirmed, eyeing Charon warily. “And I didn’t attack anyone. I threw a towel at her. She deserved more than that.”

“Ken is a bitch,” Kyrous agreed in his typical detached tone.

“What a charming family reunion,” Mel stated sarcastically.

“Whatever you want to call it, there’s a link now,” Grace said.

“For them, yes. Not for the rest of us,” Leonard replied.

Which was true.

“How did you end up on the same shuttle as one another?” I asked.

“We were going to the airport to catch our flight home,” Maverick answered.

“The better question is why a group of young men were at a bachelorette party… unless they’d been hired as entertainment,” Margo said.

“Our father had his bachelor party at the same resort.

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