Venom by Adrienne Woods

Author:Adrienne Woods [Woods, Adrienne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fire Quill Publishing
Published: 2014-11-19T23:00:00+00:00

HE SUN SHONE brightly across my closed eyelids pulling me from my dreamless sleep. Thank you I whispered softly. Dreamless nights were not something I experienced often.

When I opened my eyes the first thing I noticed was that Sammy wasn't in her bed anymore. I dressed and was determined to find her, making my way downstairs.

When I came around the corner of the kitchen, I found Becky and George around the table. My arm wrapped around her neck and I gave her a soft squeeze. As I was leaning over my eyes caught on what she was reading.

They grew in horror as a huge picture of me with my hand blocking most of my face filled the first page. “Oh crap,” I snatched the newspaper from her more forcefully than I intended.

“It’s just a picture of a hand, Elena,” she assured me as I broke out in a sweat and my panic began to grow.

“I know, but look at this heading. They make me sound just as evil as Goran,” I pleaded, gesturing to headline splashed across the page in vivid black ink.

“Breakfast, Elena?” Isabel asked interrupting my rant, and I nodded as my gaze still lingered on the newspaper.

My eyes began scanning the article. It was full of pure nonsense. The paper described Arianna as if she was the best magic wielder there was, and if it wasn’t for her insisting on coming on the mission, none of us would have made it out alive.

“This is so much. . .” I bit my tongue halting the cuss before it could break my lips.

“Tell me about it. I can’t wait to hear her speech at the revealing,” Becky said sounding almost as irritated as I was.

I shook my head as I read the last sentence, describing in vivid detail how she saved Lucian’s ex from certain death. “Ex! Ex!!!! She didn’t do anything. She was just as helpless as all of us! If it was up to her, she would’ve left me there to bleed out.”

I chucked the paper down as if it had burned my skin. As the words “Lucian’s ex” swam around in my head I began to feel woozy and I plunged myself onto the only open chair, which was unfortunately directly across from Blake. I glanced up through my eyelashes to see how he was handling my outburst.

Thankfully he was reading a bike magazine and seemed generally uninterested in my passionate display.

Walking over with a look of concern, Isabel gently placed a cup of coffee in front of me.

“Thanks,” I said with the small smile.

“You’re welcome, and don’t let that article bother you so much,” she whispered, while still keeping a close eye on her son across the table. I was sure she’d heard last night's commotion and disapproved of his actions.

“What?” he caught his mother's glaring eye.

She huffed and turned around, shaking her head as she walked back to the oven.

Yep, she’d heard it.

Looking back at Blake for his reaction, our eyes met for a second before he buried his face behind his book once again.

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