Turning Point by K M Smith

Author:K M Smith [Smith, K M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-27T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

Sarah

Disoriented and exhausted, Sarah faced Adam from her perch on the stairs, her mind reeling from information overload. It had been such a strange evening: vampires, old wounds reopening, kidnapping, dead husbands not being dead, moving from place to place faster than she could conceive, vampires. Sarah had always considered herself open-minded, but vampires? Even in the presence of a man who claimed to be one, and except for the lack of a demonstrative fang display, had proven to be one, she still couldn’t wrap her mind around the existence of these mythical creatures. If vampires were real, what other legends might exist? Should she line her house with silver during a full moon to ward off werewolves? Would that work? What about zombies? They must be real. She shuttered at the thought. Adam, man or vampire, had told her he thought her daughter had been kidnapped by her husband, whom she had presumed to be dead. He seemed earnest, but maybe he was throwing some sort of vampire juju on her to make her think that. Deep down, and as crazy as it all sounded, the stories he told her made sense. And why would he lie about this? Why come to her, talk to her, comfort her, then kill her? Not even the vilest creatures would spend so much time playing with their victims before committing the inevitable crime—except for maybe cats, and they had their reasons. No, for now, she had to believe him. She would do whatever he needed her to do to get her daughter back home safely.

“Why would Andrew take Alice?” Sarah asked, her body coiled up tightly as she searched Adam’s face for answers. Motionless at the bottom of the stairs, he returned Sarah’s gaze but gave no clues to his thoughts. A mannequin’s expressions would’ve been more readable. Finally, he spoke. “He’s never met her, maybe it is just simple curiosity.”

“Hmmph,” Sarah uttered. “Do you do things out of simple curiosity?” She could think of a few reasons Andrew might have taken her daughter and curiosity didn’t factor into any of them.

“Sarah, I—” Adam began to answer her question but hesitated. He looked down, avoiding her gaze.

She cut him off before he had the chance to lie. “Can you find them?” she asked and stood up to walk him to the door. She would deal with whatever he was hiding later, if any of this actually happened, that is. She couldn’t shake the feeling that she was dreaming and would wake up in an hour feeling silly.

Adam stopped at the door and looked at her. Sarah held his gaze, not worrying about the consequences of eye contact. He blinked, and a brief flash of worry appeared before his confident smile and bright eyes returned. “I want to find them,” he said at last.

Sarah nodded and broke eye contact, her arms wrapped around her middle. She should be shouting and crying and feeling anguished that her daughter may have been kidnapped, but right now, she was tired.

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