The Thorn Chronicles-Books 1-4: Kissed, Destroyed, Secrets, and Lies by Kimberly Loth

Author:Kimberly Loth [Loth, Kimberly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-11-02T18:30:00+00:00

IT FELT LIKE A LONG TIME, but really it’d only been about thirty seconds since I opened the box. I’d backed into the wall. Kai and my dad both looked into the box together. My dad threw up and Kai backed away with his hand over his mouth.

The gory head wasn’t real to me. I knew he was dead, but I didn’t feel it yet. I never realized that the death of a loved one is like that. As much as I wanted to, I couldn’t cry. “What are we going to do?” I asked.

All three of us sat at the table. My hand was shaking as I dialed the number. All I could think was that Ginny had gone to stay with Alejandro last night. Every ring on the phone seemed to take a year. Julio, Alejandro’s brother, answered on the fourth ring.

“Where’s Ginny?” I asked.

“Not here. Listen you might want to sit down. Something horrible has happened.”

“I know. Is Ginny alive?”

“We don’t know where Ginny is. Her phone was here, but she’s not. The guards say she came to stay with Alejandro, but she wasn’t in the room when they checked on him in the morning.” He dropped his voice. “Listen, this does not look good for her. The guards think she is involved somehow.”

“Why would they think that?”

“Because she kicked them out of the room for the night. They think she did it.”

“You don’t think that, do you?”

“No, of course not. But it does look suspicious. Where is she? And how did you know?”

“We got a box this morning. It had his….” I couldn’t bring myself to say it out loud.

Julio let out a breath. “At least we know where his head is.”

“How are you so calm?”

“Experience. I can’t afford to go to pieces right now. I need to find the murderers and your aunt.”

I heard a scream on his end of the line.

“Hang on.”

“Wait you can’t….” But he’d already set the phone down. I prayed that Ginny was okay. I tapped my fingers. Nothing felt real at the moment. A few minutes later, Julio picked up the phone again.

“Ginny’s safe. She was with Puck. She had a client who decided to throw a last minute Christmas party and needed some help. By the time she was done, it was late and she just slept on the couch. She left her phone with Alejandro by mistake. Listen, things still look bad for her. The safest place for her might be with you. I have to go. I’ll have Ginny call you as soon as she can.”

“Wait. What do I do about, you know?”

“I don’t know. Give me some time to process.”

He hung up. Adrenaline was coursing through my veins. I didn’t know what to do either. My dad was cleaning the mess on the floor. Kai grabbed a towel, flung it over the top of the box and moved it to the garage. Then he sat next to me. He took my hand in his but didn’t say anything.

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