The Vampire's Special Daughter (The Vampire Babies Book 3) by Amira Rain

Author:Amira Rain [Rain, Amira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-28T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

After crutching myself inside the house through the sliding glass doors at the back patio, I heaved the door shut with some difficulty, having to balance on one leg and one crutch to do it without the weight of the door making me fall backward. Once done with that task, I stood trying to catch my breath, a little winded just from the exertion of crutching myself all the way back up to the house from the pond. My heart was still beating rapidly and loudly from Jake’s text, too.

It wasn’t, however, beating so loudly in my ears that I couldn’t hear some distant noise in the house. This struck me as strange, because with Jen, David, and Wanted down at the pond, no one else was supposed to be home. My dad was out leading patrol, of course, and my mom was at her childcare center in Sweetwater with Mason and Alex. Mark was also in Sweetwater, at his law office, along with Carol, who’d started coming in to help the office’s secretarial team sometimes. As far as Mel and Matt, they’d completely finished moving out of the house with their kids days earlier. That only left Sam, Maria, and Trevor, but as far as I knew, they were all out on patrol with my dad and the others.

Adding to the strangeness of hearing someone in the house when it should have been empty, I could tell that the noises I was hearing were coming from the level of the house that I’d entered, which was odd, since the house was a three-story split-level, and I’d entered through the back of the partially-sunken ground level. Even when the house was packed, this floor was usually deserted, containing only my dad’s office; a billiards room; a few storage rooms; a bathroom; and some spare bedrooms.

Mystified, I strained my ears, continuing to listen, and soon heard more distant noise in the perfectly still house. There was a noise that sounded maybe like a man clearing his throat, although I couldn’t really be sure, followed by some sort of a dull bang, like maybe a cupboard or a drawer being closed. The latter sound was repeated a few seconds later.

Thinking that one of the men in the family had to have come home for something, I ventured further into the ground floor of the house, with the rubber tips of my crutches soundless against the hardwood flooring. Soon, I heard another sound like maybe a drawer being shut, and I could tell that it had come from my dad’s office.

Coming up the hallway, I breathed out a sigh of relief that I hadn’t been aware I was holding, then called out to my dad, asking what he was doing. “You kind of freaked me out for just a second.”

Maybe I hadn’t been exactly “freaked out,” although “mystified” somehow seemed like it’d be a funny thing to say that I’d been, even though it was true.

I continued crutching myself down the hallway,

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