Vampire Interrupted (Wicked Good Witches Book 8) by Starla Silver

Author:Starla Silver [Silver, Starla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-08-24T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

Lizzy made her way up from the basement, each step harder to climb, her limbs lumbering like weights had been tied around her ankles. She found Charlie leaning against the hallway wall, staring at a closed door.

“I’ve been trying to open this door and go inside for days.”

Lizzy recalled it was the Howard’s parent’s bedroom. “I’m thinking tonight is not the right time.”

She was right.

Her fingers found his jaw and turned his head so they were face to face. A storm raged in his eyes, the bright blue darkened. Saddened. Angry.

“I can’t do it. I can’t kill William. I don’t care what he’s done. It’s asking too much.”

“We don’t have definitive proof it’s him killing yet.”

“Even if it is, doesn’t he deserve another chance? After so many years… this is how it ends for him?”

Lizzy had no response. She wanted to say yes. Desperately. Yes, give William another chance. But Courtney didn’t deserve what happened to her. And those tourists that had been killed… they were walking a dangerous precipice of right and wrong. Fair and unfair. Carving out a canyon of no return.

Charlie shifted, facing the bedroom door again.

“I was standing here, wishing I could knock and my dad would answer and tell me what to do.”

“If he did, what would he tell you?”

“To do the right thing. Even if it killed me to do it.” He stormed into William’s study.

Lizzy made it only a few feet into the room when there was a growl that lit into an enraged wail, followed by a thunderous crash. She gasped, wood and oak splintering across the other side of the study, thrown by a mass of furiously wild and beastlike muscle in the form of Charlie Howard.

He’d hurled William’s sturdy oak desk across the backside of the study as if the thing was weightless. It smashed against a wall of books, breaking apart. The aftermath, a tangle of paper and wood. The wolf had a pent up temper he kept buried too deep. He should have gotten angry a lot sooner. Instead, it was coming out in one violent burst.

A thought which should have frightened Lizzy as he was clearly capable of breaking her in two when the wolf surfaced. However, rather than fear, the act struck at her heart like a thousand needles piercing her all at once.

Charlie was drowning in a level of pain no lifejacket could save him from.

No words could mend it. No actions could take it away.

A rush of footsteps pounded down the stairs and around the corner to the hallway leading into the study. It was Michael. Lizzy motioned to him that it was okay, and just let it go. He nodded weakly and returned to Emily.

“It can’t be like this all the time,” Charlie rambled, the edge of his rage dulled. “What is the point? Protecting a power source I know nothing about and yet I’m supposed to protect with my life. Losing friends. And family. So much sacrifice, and for what?” He was sounding more like Michael.

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