Page 60 of Marked By the Pack
A branch hit the side of my house in the wind, scratching the siding in the way I imagined a witch’s fingers would sound.
Okay, screw this.
I’d lived alone for years. Nothing had changed.
Well…except everything. Because my bestie was dating a vampire, King had warned me more supernatural creatures were coming, and there was potentially still a serial killer loose in town. There’d been zero progress on figuring out what had happened to those poor people in the hay maze. And Officer Davis had pretty much told me there were no leads and therefore no investigation.
I was beginning to think that maybe the other supernatural creature was already here. Andhewas the murderer.
Seriously, stop thinking about this!
Emma had given me a task for tonight. King was a man with answers, and I needed answers from him. I was already dressed and everything. I’d just been hoping that Otto would show up and distract me tonight instead. But…he was a no show. Kind of like Elias. I tried to shake away the thought. Elias was fine. And Otto was fine. Everything was fine.
I turned on my computer, lights, and microphones, before shimmying out of my robe. I got on all fours on my bed and arched my back before going into my livestream. I knew how to keep myself occupied.
I tried not to cringe as I heard the witch’s fingernails again.Nope.It was just a branch.
My subscriber number was higher than ever. I smiled to myself. Boys really did want what they couldn’t have. I leaned over my basket of produce and wrapped my lips around the end of an eggplant.
But I dropped it when I saw Elias’ username.Thank God.I clicked into a personal session with him.
“Elias! Where have you been? I’ve been worried sick…” my voice trailed off when I focused on my screen.
Elias was at his desk, frantically pulling papers out of the drawers.
“Elias?”
He slammed the drawer closed and pulled another all the way out. It fell off the hinges and he dumped the contents into a box.
“Elias, what’s going on?!” I climbed off my bed to get closer to my screen.
He pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose as he stared at me. “They’re real.”
“What?”
“Vampires. They’re fucking real, Zoey!”
I’d never heard Elias curse before. “I know.”
“You know?! You’ve met one? In person?”
I nodded. Grudge and King already knew. One more person wouldn’t hurt.
“Zoey, you have to get out of town.”
Why did everyone keep saying that? Another branch hit the side of my house and I shuddered. The storm was getting worse.
“You asked me if they can control themselves. Well…they can’t.” He cursed under his breath as one of the drawers fell out onto the floor. He turned and grabbed some books off the shelves, dumping them unceremoniously into a box. He slammed the flaps down.
“How do you know?”
“Because she tried to kill me!” he yelled.
“She?”Fuck.I knew it didn’t make sense that Callum was the only vampire in existence. But I had kind of been hoping he was. How many were out there?
“I gotta go.” He closed the flaps of another box. “Leave town, Zoey. Before it’s too late.” He exed out of the private session before I had a chance to ask any more questions. Like if this female vampire claimed to drink only animal blood or not. But I guess if she’d tried to kill him...
Shit.Shit, shit, shit!What was I supposed to do with that information? Maybe she was just a bad vampire. The kind that King had warned me about. Callum wasn’t like that.
