The Descendants by Kirk Kilgrave

Author:Kirk Kilgrave [Kilgrave, Kirk]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-26T22:00:00+00:00

17

Logan yanked the phone away from his ear and wound back his arm, ready to whip it against the wall.

“What’s wrong?” Ashleigh asked.

Her worried tone cut through his haze of exasperation, so he pulled his arms downward and spun around to keep them from seeing him mouth the word…F U C K…with a vehemence that had never before gripped him.

Hearing footsteps rush over to him, Logan managed to clamp his lips shut just as Ashleigh spun toward him.

She looked him in the eye with an intensity mixed with fear. “Oh my God! What happened?”

“Mom…” He broke out laughing. Not in a funny ha, ha manner but one tinged with a fury that presaged an emotional breakdown. “She said…” His laughter grew louder, and he spun around to see…

Eloise standing in front of him, both hands lightly clasping his elbows now, staring at him with an open expression, one that lacked the slightest emotion.

In her eyes, Logan saw complete serenity. Her subdued response conflicted with his sister’s hyper-awareness, and Logan’s laughter died down, replaced now with heavy breathing as he calmed down.

“I’ve never seen him like that before,” Ashleigh said, wide-eyed and gasping. “Ever!”

Logan kept staring into Eloise’s eyes and felt tranquility quickly stretching through his muscles. “I’m sorry.”

“It’s okay,” she said softly. “You’re okay.”

“Yeah.” He swallowed and nodded. “I am.” He looked over her shoulders at Ashleigh. “I’m sorry if I scared you.”

“What’s wrong, Logan?” asked Tyler, frozen in place at the table with Monopoly money in both hands.

“Mom said I couldn’t…kiss anyone.” His eyes went to Eloise’s.

She flinched. Her hands dropped from his arms. She stepped back.

“No,” he said, stepping toward her and taking her hands in his palms. “It’s okay.”

“Why?” Eloise asked. “Did your mom say that?”

“She said it was in the letter.”

Her eyebrows lowered. She shook her head, confused.

Logan told her about the letter his father had written and the information supposedly written therein.

“But why?” Ashleigh asked, wincing and throwing her hands out at her sides. “That makes no sense.”

Logan took in a deep breath to drive out the last trace of madness from his being. “I got upset because the call dropped again before Mom could explain herself. But I think I know what she wanted to tell me.”

“That if you kiss someone,” Eloise said, “a curse goes into effect.”

Logan nodded. It turned out his fear of kissing all those years ago would have helped him…if he’d actually clung to that irrational concern and kept it close to his heart. Of course, he wouldn’t have lived an otherwise well-adjusted lifestyle, but it may have saved his siblings from the woman that tormented them.

“When did you turn nineteen?” Eloise asked and met his gaze with a timid expression.

“A few hours before we first met at the library.”

She nodded with a downcast expression. “Any idea why this hex goes back three generations?”

“No.” For all he knew, it could have gone further back than that. “Mom and Dad never kissed,” Logan said. “I always thought it was bizarre. I’d see them looking at each other sometimes, and I could feel this sadness between them.

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