Someone Should Save Her (Liars and Vampires Book 2) by Robert J. Crane & Lauren Harper

Author:Robert J. Crane & Lauren Harper [Crane, Robert J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ostiagard Press
Published: 2018-05-17T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

We arrived at the airport a few minutes later. Roxy’s face was set in a steely, determined expression. Ivan and Benjy were giving her a wide berth. I happily followed suit. Clambering back aboard the plane, my heart constricted when I saw the empty glass that Charlie had been drinking out of, exactly where he had set it down before disembarking.

Stop it, I cajoled myself. He harassed Laura with the rest of them. He deserves no pity.

I took my seat beside Benjy and was glad that no one felt the need to fill the silence with small talk. If they wanted to grieve Charlie, then I was more than happy to give them the space to do that. It meant that I didn’t have to fill the time with more lies. Which was getting exhausting, even for me.

I pulled my cell phone out, let everyone—including Iona—know I was on my way back to Tampa, that I was fine but had a lot to tell them.

Mill received a very different message from me.

What in the actual heck were you thinking? Thx for the backup, but the Instaphoto gang saw you in one of my pics. Told them I recognized you from the party but didn’t know you. Hope you had a good reason for what you did. On our way back to Tampa now. Meet soon?

I hit send, deleted the message, and then turned my phone on to airplane mode.

The tension in the cabin was palpable. Roxy had her arms wrapped around herself, and she was chewing on her bottom lip as she glowered out the window.

Ivan was scrolling through pics, and I saw him hesitate—snaps with Charlie.

Benjy was lying with his head back against the seat, staring up at the ceiling. Unlike the flight out here, this was subdued. The frenetic energy was gone. Little was said between us. The noise of the engines pervaded, rather than the laughter of three friends joshing each other like college-aged boys on a night out. Which was what this was, I supposed—what it had been.

Periodically, throughout the flight, Roxy would let out a low, primal sort of growl. It made me flinch every time, but she was too busy looking out into the twinkling, starlit darkness.

Twenty minutes after we had crested above the clouds, however, she shattered the silence with another pronouncement.

“We need numbers.” She was gnawing one on of her fingernails. She turned her beady stare on Benjy. “We’re turning that girl tonight.”

My stomach plummeted.

She was talking about Laura. She had to be. I guess it was possible that they were harassing some other poor girl, but they had made it pretty clear that night in her backyard that they wanted her to join their posse.

I was trying to keep my face blank, but it was really tough when my telltale heart was thundering against my ribs.

Grimly, I realized that I’d made matters for Laura a whole lot worse. In getting involved, and drawing Mill out here to intervene, I’d caused this little hole to open in Roxy’s clique.

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