The Dark Reunion by L. J. Smith

Author:L. J. Smith [Smith, L. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-06-206475-2
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1991-03-18T16:00:00+00:00

10

Meredith sat down on the knee-high wall of the ruined church. “You said it was going to be dangerous, Stefan, but you didn’t say you were going to let him strangle me.”

“I’m sorry. I was hoping he’d give some more information, especially after he admitted to being there when Sue died. But I shouldn’t have waited.”

“I haven’t admitted anything! You can’t prove anything,” Tyler said. The animal whine was back in his voice, but on the walk up his face and body had returned to normal. Or rather, they’d returned to human, Meredith thought. The swelling and bruises and dried blood weren’t normal.

“This isn’t a court of law, Tyler,” she said. “Your father can’t help you now.”

“But if it were, we’d have a pretty good case,” Stefan added. “Enough to put you away on conspiracy to commit murder, I think.”

“That’s if somebody doesn’t melt down their grandma’s teaspoons to make a silver bullet,” Matt put in.

Tyler looked from one to another of them. “I won’t tell you anything.”

“Tyler, you know what you are? You’re a bully,” Bonnie said. “And bullies always talk.”

“You don’t mind pinning a girl down and threatening her,” said Matt, “but when her friends turn up you’re scared spitless.”

Tyler just glared at all of them.

“Well, if you don’t want to talk, I guess I’ll have to,” Stefan said. He leaned down and picked up the thick book he’d gotten from the library. One foot on the lip of the tomb, he rested the book on his knee and opened it. In that moment, Meredith thought, he looked frighteningly like Damon.

“This is a book by Gervase of Tilbury, Tyler,” he said. “It was written around the year 1210 A.D. One of the things it talks about is werewolves.”

“You can’t prove anything! You don’t have any evidence—”

“Shut up, Tyler!” Stefan looked at him. “I don’t need to prove it. I can see it, even now. Have you forgotten what I am?” There was a silence, and then Stefan went on. “When I got here a few days ago, there was a mystery. A girl was dead. But who killed her? And why? All the clues I could see seemed contradictory.

“It wasn’t an ordinary killing, not some human psycho off the street. I had the word of somebody I trusted on that—and independent evidence, too. An ordinary killer can’t work a Ouija board by telekinesis. An ordinary killer can’t cause fuses to blow in a power plant hundreds of miles away.

“No, this was somebody with tremendous physical and psychic power. From everything Vickie told me, it sounded like a vampire.

“Except that Sue Carson still had her blood. A vampire would have drained at least some of it. No vampire could resist that, especially not a killer. That’s where the high comes from, and the high’s the reason to kill. But the police doctor found no holes in her veins, and only a small amount of bleeding. It didn’t make sense.

“And there was another thing. You were in that house, Tyler.

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