Vampire in Chaos by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult, Vampire
ISBN: 9781928122326
Publisher: Valley Publishing
Published: 2015-05-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Tessa followed David to the room he disappeared into. She stood at the doorway, waiting for Cody to catch up to them. She started when a strong hand slid around her waist, tugging her backwards against a large warm chest.

Hi.

Hi back. She smiled. I gather my father isn’t right on your ass?

He stiffened and his arm dropped away.

She giggled.

Think that’s funny, do you?

Yep, and then some. But that’s okay. Our time will come. She watched David walk through the large ward checking the beds, so when the silence was a little awkward, she could forgive herself from missing it initially. What? she asked mentally. What did I say?

Nothing, he muttered. She turned to look up at him, noting her father’s approach from several feet away. Something is.

Just your comment that our time will come. Will it?

She knew what he was asking without asking. Yes, it will. Soon? Yes. Today? Given our situation, so not.

He grinned. How about next week?

Ha. I wanted to go to the hangout this Friday.

His voice turned serious. And I want that too. All we have to do is get Jewel and Ian out of here. Then we can go home, rest, shower, feed, and still have the next few days to ourselves before Friday.

“Hey, move it you two,” Serus barked. “You’re standing there mooning at each other.”

Tessa snickered at the word he used.

Cody stepped back and gritted through his teeth, “I am not mooning.”

Serus growled as he walked past them into the room, “Were too.”

At that, Tessa broke out laughing, her voice free and easy.

Until she saw David turn around at the end of the room and come back slowly, checking out the beds on the other side. As she’d seen him glancing at both sides as he’d walked down, she had to assume he hadn’t found Jewel. Every step he took toward her, the grimmer his face got. Every step he took, the more her heart sank. What if Jewel had been moved, the same as Ian had? They couldn’t just isolate her friend – there’d be no point to such actions. Her friends were no more dangerous than other vamps. So why move them?

David met with Serus and the two bent heads, the conversation fast and furious. Tessa stayed at the doorway with Cody. David’s face and clenched fists told the story. Jewel wasn’t here.

As they approached the doorway, David said in a harsh whisper. “She’s not here. No one is.”

“No one,” Cody asked, motioning to the closed curtains. “What do you mean by no one?”

“I mean all the beds are empty. As in completely empty.”

“What? That makes no sense.”

“No,” Serus said, adding, “But from what I can see, the beds are all made and prepped as if waiting for an influx.”

“Aren’t hospital beds always ready like this?”

“No idea.” Serus shrugged. “Why would they need to have so many beds?”

“More than that, what happened to those that were here? This ward was full when I was here last time,” David snapped. “Where is Jewel?”

“Could they have gotten better?” Tessa asked with a faint hope.

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