The Secret of the Blood Charm (Coven Cove Book 1) by David Clark

Author:David Clark [Clark, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-02-19T05:00:00+00:00

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“Come on! You have to tell us!” Apryl screamed. She all but leaned over in my face when she did it. I got it. I was the spy, unofficially, since I never agreed to go and report back to any of them. They, all of them, looked at me like it was some sort of obligation. Probably because I was one of them.

“It’s because you are one of them, isn’t it?” Brad accused, which was rather shocking and ironic, considering what I was thinking. Not that it wasn’t true, it was completely true. I was a child of two worlds, three in reality. Those worlds didn’t seem to be getting along at the moment. The shock was in who it came from. Brad had always seemed so prim and proper, above all this petty teenager stuff.

“Look, just like I wouldn’t tell them about anything we do, I can’t tell you about this. It is very personal to them,” I explained, or tried to. They met it with a chorus of sighs and people turning their backs on me. Even those I thought my closest friends, of course it had been just a few days. The movie they had paused turned back on, and attention went right back to that. I didn’t exist to them, and to be honest, I was okay with that.

Actually, that was stupid for me to even think that. I wasn’t okay with it. I still didn’t remember anything from my life pre-Nortons. That is what I had decided to call the life I couldn’t remember. What I could remember was post-Nortons because I had to assume they were the ones that turned me, and at this point I wanted to assume they did so for some righteous reason. I couldn’t really bring myself to accept anything else. I remembered my life with them. It was great. We were a family, and I felt like I belonged. That was something I needed to feel, more than well… I can’t really say air itself, but let’s just say it is a necessity, and now I sat here, not belonging.

Mrs. Bolden stroked my hair as she passed the chair I was in, and sat in the one closest to me, which had appeared to be no-man's-land before. She smiled at me gently, with almost compassion in her black eyes. “Give them some time,” she whispered just above the sound of the air moving around us, but just loud enough for me, and only me, to hear. “You did what was right.” The hand that had stroked my hair reached over and gripped my own. I wondered if she meant it, or if this was all just one of the reactions she and her husband tried to teach us to appear more human.

My isolation lasted most of the night. Make that all night. I don’t believe Mike letting me know, “Sun’s coming up,” as he walked by was a sign of forgiveness. Back down in my room, I didn’t have many choices available.

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