The Second Sign by Elizabeth Arroyo

Author:Elizabeth Arroyo
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781938404306
Publisher: Sapphire Star Publishing LLC
Published: 2013-01-08T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Deceived...Big Time

Gabby woke up to rain slipping across the glass pane of her bedroom window. Naite had given her twenty-four hours. The clock on her nightstand reaffirmed the presence of the sun. Still morning. Her body ached and her mouth was parched, a reminder that she still lived. She wanted to sleep the day away. Her leg throbbed as if warning against it, so she got out of bed slowly, undressed, and jumped into the shower.

The tattoo swirled around her ankle and edged its way up her leg just under the knee in a sequence of swirly letters and hieroglyphs. It seemed restrained to a portion of her leg under her knee, but the script was in constant change. She thought she could make out a bird. She wanted all this to be a joke. After dressing and eating a piece of bread, she went out into the now lightless day.

The Second Sign meant nothing to her. She regretted not paying attention whenever Adler explained things to both of them. Or when Max tried to get her to sit still to listen to his own explanations as he tried to dumb it down for her. Max was the smart one but he wasn’t here. Where in the world was Max? That was the million dollar question. He couldn’t be dead. She would’ve felt it, wouldn’t she? Adler would’ve called her. Someone would’ve told her something.

Adler kept a library in the lake house with an array of thick tomes. After getting caught using two thick books for target practice with her daggers, Gabby had been warned to stay out of the room. Alder had hand-picked reading materials she kept in her room, but they collected dust. She’d never bothered to open them. Gabby admitted that reading wasn’t her thing.

Opting for quick answers, she followed the trail to Heather at the fairgrounds. The fortuneteller loved scaring the kids that came to her tent, using her knowledge of dark magic and the supernatural. Gabby’s situation couldn’t get any darker...or weirder. Heather had to know what this meant, or at least point her in the right direction.

Close to the rim of the wooden part of the landscape, Heather’s tent had an extra illusion of being creepy. And people loved creepy when they believed they were safe. Gabby ran there and slipped through the sliver between the closed flaps in the tent and shrieked when she saw Sarah, half-naked with a boy.

“Gabby! Don’t you knock?” Sarah snapped.

Gabby whirled around as heat rose to her cheeks. “Sorry.” She didn’t intend to leave. It wasn’t the first time Gabby caught Sarah in a tangle of limbs under bed sheets with a boy. “I’m looking for Heather, is she here?”

The boy, Jason, gave Gabby a sly wink and a low growl. “I’ll see you at the Crossroads later?” He didn’t wait for an answer and took off still buttoning his jeans.

The Crossroads was a run-down shack in the middle of nowhere. A great place for kids to hide things, especially themselves.

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