All the World by Vaughan Rachel L

Author:Vaughan, Rachel L. [Vaughan, Rachel L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rachel L. Vaughan
Published: 2015-12-23T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve: Hidden in Plain Sight

The tiles of the bathroom floor in the Windsor Bar were large and black with flecks of grey. Lexie imagined they had been chosen for the simple fact that they could easily hide dirt and grime. She choked back a sob as images from the massacre in town hall flashed through her head. She remembered blood drying on the beige floor, staining it the color of rust. The memory of Donna Leer leaning against a desk with the letter opener sticking out of her chest caused Lexie to tighten her grip on the toilet and vomit a second time.

No matter how hard she tried, no matter how desperately she prayed, Lexie knew she would never forget what she had seen less than an hour ago. Sister turning on sister over their father’s legacy and brutal murders over politics were things that only happened in movies and books. Lexie never imagined she would witness such savagery in real life.

People shouldn’t do shit like this! Lexie closed and opened her eyes several times before her stomach squirmed and bile rose in her throat. How can the curse turn people into animals? Is it really that powerful? Everything is going to hell because of a tiny, old object.

She leaned forward and continued to retch until nothing was left in her stomach. Lexie took a shaky breath and started to stand, but another wave of nausea forced her back to her knees. Lexie convulsed as brutal dry heaves tore through her body. She heard her voice echo around the bathroom, but she couldn’t tell if she was laughing or crying.

Lexie pulled herself off the bathroom floor with shaking arms. Puking in a toilet would do nothing to help her friends. She also wasn’t sure what Cesare would really say to the police. Everything and everyone was disposable to him. If he pinned the riot at the theatre and the murders in town hall on herself and her friends, there would be no one to stop the curse. The story would be an easy way for Cesare to keep blood off his hands.

Why didn’t he kill me? Lexie wondered as she left the bathroom. He left a witness alive. If he had killed me, he could say that he wasn’t even at town hall. Cesare could probably buy Mayor MacDougal’s silence. The mayor also has a lot to lose.

Cesare was cursed and his motives were very unclear. He had seemed so above the Leer and MacDougal dispute, so why had he injected himself into it? Why add fuel to the flames? Wasn’t he busy having his own battle with his dad?

Lexie froze in the middle of the bar. Suddenly, she remembered an offhanded comment made by Cesare about Guillaume Garland.

“Why would I want a key to a demolished building? My dad asked the same, stupid question.”

She chewed at her bottom lip. From that statement, it seemed like Cesare wasn’t the one who knew about Shakespeare’s key and curse. Even if he had, Cesare would have dismissed it as nonsense.

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