ReVamped

Author:Lucienne Diver [Diver, Lucienne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Young Adult, teen fiction, teen, Vampires, Fantasy, vamped, teenager, urban fantasy
ISBN: 9780738721293
Publisher: Flux
Published: 2010-09-08T04:00:00+00:00

11

I would never let on how freaked I was at the idea that I’d come face-to-face with the Mad Monk. I figured a trip to the mall might be just the thing to drive it out of my mind. Meanwhile, the boys had to stay behind to plan a raid on the morgue in case Tyler and Teresa had joined team vamp, even though I was the one with the absolute perfect wardrobe for B&E. Where else did you wear basic black if not break-ins and funerals? The morgue was a two-fer.

But Maya and Sid couldn’t just spirit Tyler and Teresa’s bloodless bodies away like they’d swept the whole thing in Ohio under the rug. Everyone had been looking for the missing kids and, thanks to the news, everyone knew they’d been found. If they rose … well, we’d have to see what we could do to cover up the bodies’ vanishing act. But I couldn’t figure out why, if they had been turned, Raspy and his cabal had let the bodies be discovered. Sloppiness? Sheer insanity? Some kind of trap? Maybe they didn’t call Raspy “The Mad Monk” for nothing.

I asked these question, but Maya assured me they’d covered all their bases. Sid would play lookout during the raid and knock out any surveillance equipment, since although it wouldn’t record Bobby, it would catch Rick or mysteriously opening and closing doors. Maya was to be my back-up at the mall.

• • •

Bella made space on the bench seat next to her when the hearse eventually pulled up at my door and I slid into the back. Byron was driving, and, wonder of wonders, Ulric was sitting in the passenger seat rather than trying to play footsie with me. That left me facing Lily and Gavin, who still had bed wrinkles on his neck and cheek. There was a funny feel to the mood, like they’d all just stopped talking about me when I popped my head in.

“What’s up?” I asked, as the door closed behind me and Byron peeled away.

They all exchanged glances, as if deciding who was going to be the sacrifice. Lily finally threw her hands in the air like she was disgusted with the rest of them.

“Something you want to tell us?” Lily asked, looking me pointedly in the eye.

I was baffled. Had Lily known I wasn’t really at home when she’d called, that I’d been lying about just having woken up? Had someone seen Maya drop me off back at my apartment? She’d left me two blocks away and I’d walked, so no one should have spotted us together. But the more I learned about magic’s actual existence, the more I understood that “should” was more of a guideline than a rule, kinda like not wearing white after Labor Day. Anyway, something was up. You could cut the tension with a knife.

“Like what?” I asked cautiously.

“Superpowers, kicking butt, what you’re really doing here.”

“What?” I was starting to sound like a broken record.

“Come on, Gen, Ulric saw you last night.

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