Surrender to Dawn by J Kenner

Author:J Kenner [Kenner, J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781949925029
Publisher: Martini & Olive
Published: 2018-12-15T16:00:00+00:00

12

“She knew," I said, pacing in front of the couch in Rachel's new apartment. "Your mom knew."

"But what did she know?" Rachel asked. Deacon and I had returned to the pub after my meeting with the monsignor, only to find that both Rose and Rachel were asleep. I'd let them stay that way for a while, figuring that with everything that was soon going to be facing us, they would need the rest. But by four in the morning, I couldn't stand it anymore. We were technically on day three now, and counting down fast. I'd shaken both of them awake, and after coffee and Diet Coke, they were both semiconscious and blinking at me, their faces still soft with sleep.

"Everything. Don't you see? He said the key was a knife, and he learned that from Margaret."

"So my mom actually had the key?"

"I don't know," I said, frowning. "The monsignor seems to think she did, because he said they took it." I closed my eyes, trying to remember exactly what he'd said. "He said that they must have taken it when they killed her."

"I think he's wrong," Deacon said. He was standing by the window, still wearing the jacket, and the streetlight floating in from outside cast him in an eerie glow. “I would have heard. There would have been much rumbling in the demonic community if one of the gate keys had been found and destroyed."

"So that means she didn't have it," Rose said.

"Or it means she hid it," Rachel put in.

"That's exactly what I'm thinking." I reached up to the neck of the clean tank top I'd grabbed from the top of Rachel's laundry basket I pulled it down, exposing the edge of my bra, and the small tattoo of a knife. "A message, maybe? To let Alice know."

"Alice was only a kid when Mom made her get that tattoo."

"I think your mom was covering her bases. Leaving Alice a clue in case something happened to her. Because she knew it was Alice who would close the gate." At that I glanced toward Deacon, but his attention was elsewhere. "Or she knew it looked like Alice, anyway."

"But that explains it, then," Rose said. "Why they killed her, I mean. We've always wondered about why Alice, and that's it, right? Because they couldn't risk her finding the knife and shutting the gate."

"Yeah," I said, sitting on the coffee table. "I think you're right. But we still don't know why me."

"Does it matter?" Deacon asked. “The reasons don't change the reality. It is you. And there's nothing you can do now to change that."

“I know. I just—" I cut myself off, noticing the way Rachel was eyeing Rose. It was a big-sister look that I was more than familiar with, and I wondered why it was being issued by Rachel instead of by me. "Got something you two want to share with the class?"

Rose tensed up immediately, shifting around so that she was facing forward, hands on her knees. "No. Nothing.

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