Third Time's a Charm (Crimson Cove Mysteries Book 3) by Brown Tara

Author:Brown, Tara [Brown, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2016-05-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Let The Right One In

Lying in bed I sighed. The night had been perfect, except for the dark-haired girl coming to make me paranoid and the whole Rita apology. I hadn’t given much thought to the fact we’d kept her at arm’s length a lot. She wasn’t one of us, even if she was to the killer.

Unless she was the killer.

But beyond those things, it was a perfect night. We had laughed and joked and even Jake seemed as though he was having fun dancing with Lainey and being goofy. Only Sage had come alone, but she had a good time with the group of girls she had hung out with, the ones she knew from rowing club.

Finn had been the best part of my night.

He had gone from wiping my tears to including me in his thoughts, admitting how I had become his burden. The whole notion of it made me smile. I was his burden, his cross to bear. I didn’t care about the negative connotation. I only saw the “his” in the sentence.

I was mid reliving his lips pressed against my hand when I heard a noise.

I sat up, glancing across the huge room.

My bedroom window opened in the far corner.

“No,” I whispered and lay back.

A dark figure poked through the curtain.

I froze, not breathing or moving.

I contemplated slipping off the side of the bed to the floor and crawling under it, but I was frozen, except for my racing heart. It pounded so hard the person sneaking around in the dark must have heard it.

I wanted to slap myself for not being more afraid earlier and for thinking I hadn’t let the dark-haired girl win. She’d won. I wanted to profess it as I begged her to stop creeping about my room. I wanted to negotiate. All that big talk was gone and the big, brave Sierra had vanished into the dark.

Maybe I could buy her off. I could promise her things. Though that hadn’t worked in the cell or the torture room.

My heart raced and my mouth dried as she drew nearer.

My eyes longed to close but the muscles were frozen open.

I could taste my death in the air that had followed her in the window.

“Sierra,” she whispered.

I stayed perfectly still, like an ostrich with her head in the sand.

“Sierra,” she whispered again but this time a marginal amount of fear slipped away as I recognized the voice. Not hers—his.

I lifted my head to see a dark hoodie with the face of Jake staring back at me. “WHAT ARE YOU DOING?” I whispered harshly, almost doing a quick check for pee. “Are you drunk? Why are you sneaking in my room in the dark? You ass!”

“I have to ask you something. It’s been driving me nuts.” He sat on the edge of my bed, his eyes wide.

“What could possibly be this important? It’s the middle of the night.”

“It’s about that girl. The one who took you.”

“What?” My heart started to race again.

“When she had you there, did she—?” He paused, shaking his head.

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