Scions:Insurrection by Insurrection

Author:Insurrection
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

K aitlyn’s answering machine blinked as she carried her father’s box of stuff into the office. She squatted and set the box down beside the couch, then winced when a hard, jabbing sensation pinched the top of her leg. Standing, she quickly dug her hand into her right jeans pocket to find the culprit and withdrew a silver chain with a mashed bullet slug dangling from it. She’d forgotten she’d stuffed Landon’s chain in her pocket before she’d passed out.

Turning the bullet slug, she noted some etchings along the surface that looked like letters. She held the metal up to the light and squinted, trying to decipher them, but they were warped and distorted by the bullet’s mangled shape.

With a sigh, she lifted the chain over her head and let it drop around her neck. She’d give the necklace back to Landon the next time she saw him.

Before she checked her messages, the headline in the newspaper she’d brought in caught her eye: The Vampires Are Back! She quickly scanned the article. Amid the hype, it said that two vampires’ burned bodies had been discovered in the alley next to the library and that the local police had contacted the government for help. Where did the new Garotter regime fit in? she wondered as she picked up the phone and dialed her cell phone provider. The last thing she needed was a five-hundred-dollar cell phone bill because some bozo had found her phone and gone crazy with it.

After she’d asked them to suspend her cell phone service until she could either retrieve her phone or let them know it was stolen, the answering machine’s two blinking messages drew her over to the credenza. Kaitlyn pressed the play button.

“Hey, girl,” Abby said in a chipper voice. “You’ve been quiet lately. I called your cell and didn’t hear back, so I’m leaving you a message here, too. How’d your haunted house date with Mr. Hottie go? Hmm? Call me.”

“Hot and cold,” she mumbled and waited for the next message to play.

“I told you I’d keep you in the loop on the subject we discussed,” Ron’s voice came across the machine. “We’re on tonight. Check your cell. I might be sending some images your way as a backup. More than likely we won’t need them if tonight’s the night and this bust goes down the way it should, but I grew up in Boy Scouts. What can I say…it’s ingrained.”

As the line went dead and the answering machine whirred to a stop, Kaitlyn was already on her telephone, dialing Ron’s cell.

It rang but went straight to voice mail. “Ron, I got your message. Call me,” she said, then hung up.

Kaitlyn nibbled her bottom lip and stared at the answering machine, wondering if Ron had sent anything to her cell phone. And she’d just suspended it! Not that any of that mattered if she didn’t have the phone, anyway. She’d lost it when the vampire had tossed her across the alley. She had to find her cell phone.

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