The Weird Girls by Cecy Robson

Author:Cecy Robson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy, Vampires
ISBN: 9781101606919
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2012-12-04T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

“I want to kill her. Just let me kill her. Damn it, Celia. Will you look at me?”

“I am looking at you, Taran.”

The shock of my experience receded as Emme encased me in her healing aura and Shayna threw about seven blankets over my shivering form. Except Emme’s gift and Shayna’s attention failed to erase the images of the fight. They continued to haunt me, but at least now I could function. Sort of.

Taran paced around the kitchen, balls of blue and white forming, disintegrating, and reforming in her palms. Her agitation and growing hate threatened to burn down our house. I wanted to calm her and reinforce that only one challenge remained. Yet I couldn’t even stop my body from shaking. I’d killed myself. And while my rational side insisted that it was just part of Larissa’s mindscrew, it remained one hell of an illusion. The other Celia’s skin had felt like my skin. Her eyelashes fanned out thick and long like mine, her green eyes sparked just as intensely, just as sharply. Larissa had mimicked my physique to a tee, down to the freckle on the knuckle of my right pinky. Witches vowed to do no harm.

I supposed that remained true. So long as you didn’t piss one off.

Shayna’s back rested against our new granite top, her arms crossed. She no longer cried. No one did. I wished then she would, hoping the release might soothe her. “I could have killed you.” Her head angled my way. “I never miss. You know I never miss. This was the first time I didn’t hit my mark. If it wasn’t for your tigress side I would have . . .” I expected her to burst into tears then, but she only shook her head before turning toward the window.

“Shit.” Taran abandoned her fire and leaned into the counter, burying her face into her hands. “We all could have killed you, Celia.” Her carefully applied mascara smeared down her cheeks. She clenched her jaw when she regarded me once more. “I’ll find that bitch Larissa, Ceel. And when I do, I swear I’ll end this.”

“And have every last witch in the Tahoe region after us?” I shook my head. “No. You’ve already seen what one can do. And I think both of us have done our share of killing. Don’t you?”

Taran didn’t answer. She pursed her lips. In the end, murder was murder, no matter how just. Emme and Shayna had never experienced taking a life. And I hoped they never would. That’s one of the reasons I’d pounced on the Ninth Law. I didn’t want them to have someone’s heart stop by their hands. Taran and I? Hell, some nights I still woke to the screams of those who’d killed our parents. They’d begged me to spare them when I hunted them down. I didn’t. Not a one. Most people would have expected a fifteen-year-old to show some mercy. But I suppose most people would have given me too much credit.

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