Vampires of Maze (Part Six) (Beautiful Immortals Series Two Book 6) by Tim O'Rourke

Author:Tim O'Rourke [O'Rourke, Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ravenwoodgreys
Published: 2016-08-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

“What the hell?” I gasped, staggering backwards so that I was perilously close to falling off the platform edge and down onto the tracks. I rammed one fist into my mouth to stop myself from screaming. Once more, I glanced left and right along the platform, desperately looking for signs of anyone else. Because there had to be someone else – the person who had shot Veronica Cabal in the face before I’d had my meeting with her, must still be close by. Whoever it was could be watching me with every intention of killing me, too. I reached behind me, pulling out the gun. Raising my fist, I waved the gun into the darkness before me. I tried to think of everything that Calix had taught me about firing the weapon. But those lessons seemed to disintegrate in my mind, as I stood frozen to the spot seeking out the person who had murdered Veronica.

“Come out! Show yourself!” I shouted. But the only response I heard was the sound of my own voice echoing back off the barren and remote railway station. “Why did you have to kill her?” I shouted into the dark. “We were going to make a truce between the Beautiful Immortals! Why wouldn’t you want that?”

Again, only the echo of my own voice and the roar of the wind answered me.

Still holding the gun out before me, I suddenly had a terrifying thought. What if the killer was long gone? What if they hadn’t hung about to kill me? What if their plan hadn’t been to murder me like they had Veronica, but keep me alive and let me take the blame for her death? Because if anyone should find me alone at the remote railway station in the possession of a gun, they would believe it was me who shot her in the face and any chance of ever finding a truce – of ever being trusted by anyone ever again – would be over. With a sense of panic rising inside of me and threatening to consume me, I stuffed the gun back into the waistband of my jogging bottoms. I looked once more at Veronica Cabal, as she sat stiff and motionless on the bench, head tilted back, the whites of her eyes showing and blood red lips open in a snarl. I looked once more with horror at the stream of sticky black blood, which continued to ooze from the gunshot wound in her forehead. So panicked was I, that I fought the urge to throw up. I trembled from head to toe as I realised the consequences should I be caught with the vampire leader sitting dead before me and a gun hidden beneath my waistband.

With my legs feeling like lead, I made my way back along the platform edge. The baby inside me began to kick once more as if sensing my growing distress. I placed one hand on the bump that protruded from my front and fled the station.

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