Vampire Diaries Fury Rack by L. J. Smith

Author:L. J. Smith [Smith, L. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Occult & Supernatural, Vampires, Horror, Horror Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Supernatural, Horror & Ghost Stories, Young Adult Fiction, Fantasy & Magic, Love & Romance, Teenage girls, Brothers, Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
ISBN: 9780061990779
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-04-27T19:16:09+00:00

Oh, stupid, stupid, Elena thought, forging through the banked snow to the other side of Maple Street. She’d missed her chance to ask Margaret whether Robert had been at dinner.

It was too late now.

Robert. Her eyes narrowed suddenly. At the church, Robert had been outside and then the dogs had gone mad. And tonight Margaret’s kitten had gone feral—just a little while after Robert’s car had pulled out of the driveway.

Robert has a lot to answer for, she thought.

But melancholy was pulling at her, tugging her thoughts away. Her mind kept returning to the bright house she’d just left, going over the things she’d never see again. All her clothes and knickknacks and jewelry—what would Aunt Judith do with them? I don’t own anything anymore, she thought. I’m a pauper.

Elena?

With relief, Elena recognized the mental voice and the distinctive shadow at the end of the street. She hurried toward Stefan, who took his hands out of his jacket pockets and held hers to warm them.

“Meredith told me where you’d gone.”

“I went home,” Elena said. That was all she could say, but as she leaned against him for comfort, she knew that he understood.

“Let’s find someplace we can sit down,” he said, and stopped in frustration. All the places they used to go were either too dangerous or closed to Elena. The police still had Stefan’s car.

Eventually they just went to the high school where they could sit under the overhang of a roof and watch the snow sift down. Elena told him what had happened in Margaret’s room.

“I’m going to have Meredith and Bonnie spread it around town that cats can attack, too. People should know that. And I think somebody ought to be watching Robert,” she concluded.

“we’ll tail him,” Stefan said, and she couldn’t help smiling.

“It’s funny how much more American you’ve gotten,” she said. “I hadn’t thought about it in a long time, but when you first came you were a lot more foreign. Now nobody would know you hadn’t lived here all your life.”

“We adapt quickly. We have to,” Stefan said. “There are always new countries, new decades, new situations. You’ll adapt, too.”

“Will I?” Elena’s eyes remained on the glitter of falling snowflakes. “I don’t know. …”

“You’ll learn, in time. If there is anything … good … about what we are, it’s time. We have plenty of it, as much as we want. Forever.”

‘“Joyous companions forever.’ Isn’t that what Katherine said to you and Damon?” Elena murmured.

She could feel Stefan’s stiffening, his withdrawal. “She was talking about all three of us,” he said. “I wasn’t.”

“Oh, Stefan, please don’t, not now. I wasn’t even thinking about Damon, only about forever. It scares me. Everything about this scares me, and sometimes I think I just want to go to sleep and never wake up again. …”

In the shelter of his arms she felt safer, and she found her new senses were just as amazing close up as they were at a distance. She could hear each separate pulse of Stefan’s heart, and the rush of blood through his veins.

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