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“No, Grudge is right,” Emma said. “I was asking Callum a little more about his powers last night. He’s fast. But the human eye can still see a blur. It’s not like he turns completely invisible or anything. And I don’t think that speed is fast enough to travel all the way to Egypt, find two people she doesn’t know, and murder them for no reason.”
“Not no reason. The coin is evil and she’s trying to hide the fact that it is.”
“But what about everything else I just said? She’s not that fast. She can’t be.”
“Just because Callum is a slow vampire...”
“Excuse you,” she said.
I couldn’t help but laugh. She looked truly offended. “Kebe is super old. Maybe the older you get the faster you get.”
“Pretty sure it’s the opposite of that,” Grudge said.
“In humans.”
“Still. I get honing your vampire skills. But quadrupling your speed? Eh. She’d have to be faster than any known mode of transportation. There’s no way. Besides, Kebe is so hot.”
“You’re not helping.”
“I think I’m helping a little,” he said.
My head was spinning. “She might have killed Bennett’s friends,” I said.
“But probably not,” Grudge said.
“Emma.” I looked at her. “She disappeared between the hours of Ray’s last text and when he went mysteriously missing. This can’t be a coincidence. And Patrick too? They both knew about the coin. It doesn’t make sense.”
Emma pressed her lips together. “Look, I’m not the first person to defend Kebe. Trust me. But I don’t see how she could have possibly done this. Did she even know the names of Bennett’s contacts?”
I sighed. That was a really good point. “No. I don’t think so. I didn’t even know their names until Otto told me in bed. And obviously Kebe was not in the room when that happened.” I’d also heard a few more storiesabout the guys yesterday. But Kebe wasn’t at our house or anything.
“So...Kebe is innocent,” Grudge said. “I can’t wait to meet all of you in person on Saturday.”
“Grudge, why did you call in the first place?” I asked.
“I just wanted to say hi. It’s a good thing I did call though. So we could figure out that other guy was missing too.”
My stomach churned. I didn’t want to be the one to bring the guys this information. This freaking sucked. “I have to go.”
“Do you want to do that video call real quick first?”
“Bye, Grudge.” I hung up the phone. I groaned and put my face in my hands. “They’re all going to be so upset when I tell them about their other friend.”
Emma rubbed my back. “I’m so sorry, Zoey. And now we’re never going to find out more information about the coin.”
“Yeah.” This was all such a big mess. But unlike Emma, I was still very suspicious of Kebe. I’d wanted to keep her around because she knew about the coin. But only bad things had happened since she’d come to Crooked Point. She was like a freaking plague.
I get that it seemed impossible for her to be murdering people halfway across the world. But...I just had a terrible gut feeling that she was still hiding stuff from us. We needed answers before anyone else got hurt.
Titan had originally wanted to torture her for information. I think it was about time to let the beast loose.
Chapter 21
Monday
Zoey
It was very possible that I was about to handle this whole situation wrong. But once a plan was formed in my head, I had a hard time changing it.
