The Community Series, Books 1-3 by Tappan Tracy

Author:Tappan, Tracy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: B. Reed Publishing
Published: 2015-10-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

Luvera sat in front of her vanity mirror and brushed her hair, her strokes slow through the crackling strands, her mind’s eye dreamily conjuring the image of tonight’s scene as if it was happening right in front of her all over again: the stage in the middle of the large field of Astro Turf with a drum set, keyboard, and electric guitar speakers on it, the bleachers overflowing with people, the hubbub of so many excited voices nearly vibrating the air.

She’d been sitting in the stands with her friends, her hands clenched in her lap, never so nervous and excited in her life. She’d just about levitated out of her seat when the houselights had dimmed dramatically and a spotlight zeroed in on Hadley, center stage and speaking into a microphone.

A special treat for you tonight, folks… Ţărână’s new rock band making its debut performance…

The murmuring had grown louder when four men stepped onto the shadowy field and walked toward the stage.

Then dead silence.

Alex Parthen himself had been the first shock. The geeky computer persona had disappeared, and a rock ’n’ roll heartthrob had been born. Gone were the Dockers, plaid shirt, and gold-rimmed glasses, and in their place he was wearing stone-washed jeans, tennis shoes, and a tie-dye T-shirt, an electric guitar strapped across his shoulder. His hair had been different, too, slightly mussed, the reddish-blond strands tumbled forward over his brow. Luvera’s belly had performed a perfect ten triple Axel over how handsome and sexy he was.

Shock number two had been Alex’s band mates. They were all Stânga towners. Not a one should’ve dared to hobnob with a Royal Fey such as Alex Parthen. At least not according to the ancient Vârcolac hierarchical caste system, where those of “genetically superior bloodlines” roosted supremely at the tip-top and all others wallowed somewhere beneath. To those who still adhered to this Vârcolac pecking order—her mother being the Grand Poohbah of that group—the Stânga Town kids, the last-born and genetically weakest, were little better than pond scum. Luvera didn’t agree with this archaic code of Vârcolac culture. It was a throwback to the old days of aristocracy and peasants, and it had no place in modern society. Watching Alex break this code had secured him a place in her heart for all time.

Something she hoped to tell—

Luvera whirled around at the sound of her window swishing open, her hand tightening around her brush as a dark-clothed man slipped silently inside her bedroom. “Shon,” she gasped. “Stars in the sky, what are you doing here?”

“Haven’t seen you in a long time, Luvera. Months. Not since we—”

She made a shushing noise. “Be quiet! My mother is just down the hall.” And she couldn’t bear to hear him say kiss. “If she finds you here, she’ll kill me.”

He shrugged as if a tree stump cared more than he did. “If you don’t come to me, I gotta come to you.”

“No. You don’t. I told you that what we did was a mistake.” She glanced furtively at her bedroom door.

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