A Rose by Any Other Name

Author:Landra Graf [Graf, Landra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sleeping Beauty, fairy tale, decadent publishing, paranormal romance
Publisher: Decadent Publishing
Published: 2015-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Then the twelfth, who had not yet given her gift, came forward and said that the bad wish must be fulfilled….

“We can’t just sit by and do nothing. This is Rose, our friend,” Emma said as Jason pulled into said friend’s driveway. Why he had returned to an empty house with nothing but memories, she didn’t know. There were better locations to go to, including her parents’ house, but she’d been too stunned to say so. “Why are we here?”

“I don’t know.” He slammed his hands against the steering wheel before waving them around in the air. “Clues, maybe? She wasn’t feverish and near death’s door two days ago. What happened? It’s Saturday. She died Friday morning. If we want to save her and anyone else, we have to know more about what they’ve got.” Shaking his head, he pulled the keys from the ignition and got out of the car.

She shut the door to the Mustang and sprinted toward the front door. “Okay, so clues. I spoke to her a couple of times on the way into town. Everything sounded normal for her; she even dropped the phone once.”

They stepped into the front hallway, and she scrutinized the room, willing the answers to their questions to magically appear in front of them. His points made sense, but she wanted desperately to rewind the clock, to get a chance to warn her friend and even herself. And then she remembered something.

“Hey, remember the senior carnival?”

“Yes, but what does the carnival have to do with two people going on a cannibalistic killing spree?” He stepped into the living room, rifling through a pair of jackets draped on the back of the couch.

“It has a lot to do with it. Remember the fortune teller? She said Rose would get sick or something in ten years.”

Jason turned, locking his fear-clouded, wide eyes with hers while biting his lower lip. “No, she said she’d release a sickness.” He picked up the picture of both of them at the prom, and rubbed his thumb over his ex’s face. “Don’t tell me this is what that lady meant.”

She shrugged. “It might be, but I hope not.”

Just thinking of that strange woman gave Emma chills.

“Okay, so we need to track down the fortune teller. Didn’t she work at the school as a janitor or something?”

“So you do remember more about those days.” She let out a small smile.

He had always pretended to be so uninvolved back then, making everything a joke, when, truthfully, he had absorbed plenty of details. Placing the picture back on the mantel, she failed to stop the sigh escaping her lips, nor the appreciation she had for him, which ran deeper the longer they spent time together.

“Yeah, I remember. Quit looking at me like that. You can’t deal with the feelings between us right now, remember?”

”Sorry. Couldn’t help it.” Her momentary admiration disappeared, his words like a knife slicing through her. “Like you couldn’t help kissing me in the car earlier.” She’d

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