Relapse (The Vs. Reality Series Book 2) by Blake Northcott

Author:Blake Northcott [Northcott, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-06-06T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen – Tristful

Paris | August 29, 2011 | 8:57pm, Central European Time

A few tense hours roll by after the confrontation in the living room. Dia is still unsure about how to process this information, feeling conflicted about her father – a man she scarcely remembers. Sitting on her rooftop terrace Dia gazes out towards the iconic tower in the distance; she takes a final sip of red wine from her glass and sets it down when her sister emerges behind her.

“Need a refill?” asks Paige with a soft smile; holding an uncorked bottle in one hand, and an empty wine glass in the other. “I thought I’d come up here with a peace offering.”

“No need,” Dia replies, holding up a half-full bottle of her own. “I’ve got it covered.”

Paige approaches and takes a seat next to her sister on the ledge, filling her glass to the top. “Look, I’m sorry about everything that happened earlier. I didn’t mean to throw down with you in front of the gang, but things are just getting a little crazy. It’s weighing on everyone.”

“Yeah, I noticed. You weren’t in the room when Cole decided to Hulk-smash a hole through our living room wall. I don’t know if it’s the fact that he’s in full-time manifestation mode or just the pressure that’s getting to him, but he’s crumbling.”

Paige takes a quick sip from her glass and places it on the ledge at her side. “So how are you holding up?”

Dia blurts out a short laugh under her breath. “Things are just fab. We’re wanted criminals, Cole is coming apart at the seams, our father is hunting us down, and to top everything off, someone who’s living in our apartment is probably a serial killer. But I’m not worried…I have a plan.”

“You do?”

“Absolutely,” says Dia, taking a swig directly from the bottle. “I plan on getting very, very drunk. Then, if I have time later, I plan on throwing up.”

Paige nods approvingly. “I like it. Simple. Not to mention classy. So what’s the next step after that?”

“I haven’t thought that far ahead. But I figure as soon as I’m drunk enough I’ll have some better ideas.”

A few seconds tick by and Paige’s smile fades. “This is going to turn into a war, you know.”

“Probably,” says Dia softly, almost indifferently.

“And wars need soldiers. I’ve started contacting our friends who have manifested. The allies we have left, anyway; we have to assume that the Collectors have captured most of them. The clock is ticking, and if any new potentials manifest, we need to get to them before the Council does.” Paige typically spends several hours a night online, researching suspicious events and reaching out to people around the world who she believes may have manifested. Over the last several months it has been increasingly difficult to get in touch with her existing contacts, and she fears the worst; although she doesn’t want to cause a panic and reveal that she hasn’t had a single response from anyone in the past two weeks.

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