Shadow Lake Vampire Society Book Three: The War by Wendi Wilson & Katie French

Author:Wendi Wilson & Katie French
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2020-11-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

What in the hell just happened?

The thought played over and over in my head as I picked my way down the hill toward the others. Before I’d left the ledge, I’d watched as what remained of Warren’s vamps scattered. The strange witch had vanished in a wisp of black smoke, and there’d still been no sign of Warren. What a coward.

A yelp of fright burst from my lungs as several beings blurred up the path toward me. I stumbled back a few steps, gripping my vampire blade tighter in my fist. If The Society vampires thought they were going to take me now, they had another thing coming. I wasn’t going anywhere without a fight. I’d been manhandled enough already.

The blurry forms skidded to a stop in front of me, and my body drooped with relief. It was my family—Mom and Dad, Coco, Desmond—with True clinging to his back like a spider monkey—and Levi. He rushed forward, running his hands over my shoulders and down my arms as his eyes traced the line of my neck before taking in the rest of me.

Meeting my eyes, he asked, “Are you okay? Did he bite you?”

“I’m fine,” I assured him, then looked over at the others. “I’m fine. He let me go.”

“Who let you go?” Mom asked. “What happened?”

“It was… Jackson,” I stuttered, my eyes darting between Mom and Coco. “He carried me up the mountain so we could watch that witch come in destroy our plan and everything I’d done to set it into motion. Then, he said something about liking the chase and disappeared.”

Matching growls echoed from Levi and my dad, while Mom and Coco wore identical horrified expressions. I knew they’d blame themselves for letting Jackson Carter get so close to them, and in effect, to me, but it wasn’t their fault. They needed to know that.

“He’s working for Warren,” I said, looking from Mom to Coco and back again. “None of this is your fault. He tricked you, using that suave cowboy demeanor and his vampire powers. You didn’t stand a chance against him before—but you do now.”

I put some extra emphasis on those last words and was pleased to see some of the fire return to their eyes. I didn’t know why Jackson decided to let me go, but I did know it was a big mistake. We were on to him and his tricks now, and Mom and Coco had a major ax to grind.

I wouldn’t want to be him when they got their hands on him. That was for sure.

I nodded my head toward the valley. “Let’s go find Zelda. We need to find out what she knows about this witch Warren has working for him.” And how he even knew he needed one.

I hadn’t mentioned what Jackson said about The Society knowing what we were up to. I knew what it meant. It meant they were somehow spying on us from the outside, or they had someone on the inside. That thought was almost too painful to contemplate.

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