Page 77 of Deviant

Might as well leave her to them.

I sure as shit wouldn’t want her messing around in mine.

With her little black book now in my hands, I can’t help but wonder if Nora might still be with us if I had been more vigilant. But as I flick the pages of her book, it dawns on me that my baby sister had bigger secrets than I could have ever imagined.

“Goddamn it, Nora,” I mumble as I read all the intel and research she had done onThe Scourgeand how she was strategizing a way out for our family by being chosen for the Harvest Dozen.

She was always smart. Clever too. And most importantly, she was motivated. Combined with her stubbornness, there was no way she wouldn’t have done anything in her power to get what she wanted. And what she wanted was to save our mother’s life.

Pain stabs me in the heart how she deluded herself into believing that leaving Blackwater Falls was the answer to all our problems.

ALS doesn’t have a cure. It was bound to take our mother away from us, whether we lived here or anywhere else. But Iguess Nora needed to believe that she had some kind of control over the situation.

Hmm.

When I reach a passage where Nora describes her talks with the old priest, I’m reminded of how Rowen’s life was almost cut short when she paid the wacko her own visit.

Wait…

Wait just one goddamn minute.

Could it be that Rowen is trying to follow in my sister’s footsteps?

Is that her plan?

Fuck. It must be.

But while Nora’s intentions in getting selected were to save our mother—a naive notion at best—I doubt Rowen’s are as selfless.

If I was a gambling man, I’d bet my last dollar that she’s trying to get selected forThe Scourgeso they could do the job she’s been too much of a coward to finish herself.

“My, my, my, isn’t this fortuitous?” I smile sinisterly as I read each line my sister wrote.

But how do I feel about that?

About someone else getting the pleasure of watching the life bleed away from Rowen’s eyes?

The fuck that’s happening.

No.

I’llbe the one to have that privilege. No one else. I’d kill the fucker who even dared to try.

But still, if that’s her intention, then I need to make sure she gets what she wants.

I always knew that all Rowen needed was a little push.

And this book right here in my hands, with all its details, is all the motivation she’ll need.

Soon, Rowen. Soon, you’ll have everything that’s coming to you.

I promise you that.

Chapter 14

Rowen

I stare at Aidan’s text and feel physically ill. He wants me to come over tonight and we all know what that means—another sloppy rumble in his bed, leaving him satisfied and me disgusted with myself.

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