The Eyes of the Sun: The Complete Trilogy by Christina McMullen

Author:Christina McMullen [McMullen, Christina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B0166BC2AC
Published: 2015-10-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

I awoke to the sound of Gumbo's low menacing growl and an incessant pounding on my front door. The sunlight streaming in the windows made me glance at the clock and do a double take when I saw that it was just after seven in the morning. It had been just after three the previous afternoon when my crying jag finally subsided, meaning that not only had I slept nightmare free, but I had slept for sixteen hours, something I didn't think was physically possible. Oddly though, I was still exhausted and the banging on the door was doing nothing for the headache that was coming on.

Even odder was Gumbo's behavior. She was normally a lazy cat who only showed mild interest in the occasional bird that would land on my balcony. To see her standing on my dresser, back arched, and hissing, put me on high alert. I drew back the curtain and looked out. I saw nothing out of the ordinary, so I shrugged into my bathrobe and stalked to the door, not at all surprised to see three impossibly perky vampires who were impervious to the death glare I gave them.

“Wow, you look like crap! Have you been asleep this whole time?”

“We tried to call you!”

“Oh my god, your dad is so hot.”

I considered slamming the door in their faces, but opted for turning my back and stalking into the kitchen to start a pot of coffee.

“Don’t bother, we brought some,” Ingrid said, holding up an insulated jug.

“Right,” I grumbled and continued scooping beans into the grinder, “like I’m going to fall for that again.”

“Ida made it, and what’s up with you?”

With a sigh, I grabbed some mugs from the cupboard and flopped onto the sofa. “I’m sorry, I’ve got a raging headache and the last thing I want to hear is my nineteen year old friend telling me my dad, who is sixty, is hot. That’s just gross.”

“Well he is!” Kaylee said with a dramatic eye roll. “Anyway he’s worried about you. You said you were going to come over last night.”

“I was planning on it, but apparently, I was pretty tired. I don’t know how I missed your calls though. I usually hear the phone no matter what.”

“Yeah, that’s because you dropped Fred in the van last night,” Layla said as she pulled my phone out of her purse and tossed it to me. They weren’t kidding. I had several missed calls from them, as well as Ida, Andre, Lona, Miles, Holly, and Evan. I’d never felt so popular. “Good thing one of us was smart enough to remember there’s a GPS tracker in it.”

“You mean good thing you spazzed out and Holly suggested tracking it?” Kaylee teased.

“Thanks whoever,” I mumbled and sent off a mass text to let everyone know I was fine and that I’d be over soon. “Well, let me shower and we’ll head back over.”

Twenty minutes later, I was dressed and, thankfully, my headache had subsided. I ushered the girls

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