War and Order by Willow Rose

Author:Willow Rose [Rose, Willow]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BUOY MEDIA
Published: 2018-05-28T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-One

My dad looked worse than the day before when I got back from school. I had picked up Veronika on my way back. She rushed to her room to play with her doll.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

He had the phone in his hand, and his hair was unruly. I had never seen him quite like this before. He was a mess.

"Just got off the phone with Ben."

I put my backpack down. "And?"

He gave me a look. It was strained with despair. Panic started to spread inside me.

"Dad? What did Ben say?"

My dad swallowed, then cleared his throat. "They're charging her."

My eyes grew wide. "What?"

He nodded like the realization was just starting to sink in. "They're charging her with murder."

"Why? How? They don't even have the guy's body yet. I mean, they don't even know if he’s dead or not."

"It's all part of their tactics. They want us taken down, all of us, one way or another…lure us out of our hiding," my dad mumbled, obviously not quite realizing who he was talking to.

"But…but they can't keep her like this, can they? Aren't there laws about these things? What's their evidence that they’re basing their charges upon?" I asked, confused.

He cleared his throat again. "That's what we need to find out. Guess it's time to lawyer up. Luckily, I know some of the best in the country. I’m calling them right away."

I rushed to my room, not without looking in every corner and on every wall of the house to make sure there were no spiders. I sat on my bed heavily, when I heard a scream.

"Veronika," I said and hurried into the hallway. I found her in the bathroom, squatting on top of the toilet.

"What's wrong? Veronika? Speak to me? Did you see something? Was it a spider?"

My eyes scanned the room, but I saw no hairy long-legged creatures. I felt like I was getting paranoid from constantly looking everywhere for them after hearing Amy's story.

She shook her head.

"What was it then? Was it any of my cousins? Were they up here?"

She shook her head again. "No."

"Then what was it?"

Our eyes met. "It happened again," she said.

"What happened? Did you travel?"

She nodded again. "Yes."

I relaxed. "Okay. And you saw something scary?"

She bit her lip. "Yes."

"What did you see?"

"You. You were dead."

I sighed, nervously. That again. "And you're sure it was me?"

She nodded.

"And who else was there?"

"Duncan," she said.

My heart dropped. "Anyone else?"

"Another vampire," she said. "Tall one. A boy with evil eyes."

This was new. As my dad called from downstairs to tell us we needed to order another pizza for tonight, I grabbed onto the small straw of hope that I could change the future and my own fate.

There had to be some way.

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