Voodoo Queen by Theophilus Monroe

Author:Theophilus Monroe [Monroe, Theophilus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

“Why are Mom and Dad so fucking dumb?” I asked Ashley—it was a rhetorical question. I didn’t expect an answer.

“You know they aren’t. Just idealistic…”

“They’re like baby vampires, barely have their cravings tamed and now they’re off to save a girl who betrayed us to begin with? And Dad probably doesn’t even realize he’s risking everything to save this girl, this girl we barely know… So… fucking… dumb.”

Ashley shrugged. “I’m as worried as you are, Annabelle. But think about it… they missed their chance to parent us. I mean, in any meaningful way. And what they were there for over the last nine years, they don’t remember. I don’t know Hailey—we weren’t here. But she’s still young, without parents. She was settling into a new world with no one but Mercy to guide them.”

“Mercy is older than Mom and Dad, by quite a bit.”

“As a vampire. But as humans, Mom and Dad were connecting to their human side, whatever of it still lingers. They couldn’t save us. They couldn’t spare us from a life of pain. Maybe they saw a chance to do what they wished they could have done for us.”

I rolled my eyes. “With a girl they’d barely met?”

“Look, it’s just a guess, Annabelle. Don’t ask me to psychoanalyze Mom and Dad.”

“I didn’t ask you to. I just asked you why they were so dumb, which was more of a statement than a question. You’re the one who started mind-shrinking them.”

“And now you want to go be the hero. Go save Mom and Dad again. Right?”

“They don’t stand a chance, Ashley. We just got them back. I’m not losing them again! And if Kalfu gets Dad’s new ability, trust me, Kalfu will have no problem mastering it. It’ll take him a whole five seconds to figure it out.”

Ashley glanced at the small crowd of people who’d gathered in Vilokan. My friends, and Mercy. I couldn’t include her under the “friends” moniker. Maybe I should have—but I still viewed my relationship with Mercy as one of mutual convenience. She was a friend only insofar as being the enemy of my enemy made her one. “And you think they can afford to lose you, Annabelle? Hell, do you think the world can afford to lose you? That hideous thing on your head suggests you have bigger responsibilities than taking care of Mom and Dad now. Put a little more faith in them.”

“It’s not hideous. It’s a Voodoo headdress!”

“It’s hideous, Annabelle.”

I chuckled. “I guess it sort of is, in a way. But there’s also a certain style to it. I could get used to it.” I removed the headdress. “I think it’s just a ceremonial piece anyway. It’s not like Marie Laveau wore the thing all the time.”

“Pauli has been standing there with his hand over his mouth fashion-shaming you since you two arrived.”

“No he hasn’t…”

“Look!”

I turned and looked at Pauli, who quickly pivoted away and covered his face with his hand, pretending he wasn’t staring stupidly at my newfound style sense.

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