Beginnings (The Trifectus Series - Book One) by Logan Byrne Read Free Book Online

make James jealous.  Maybe if he thought I was talking to another guy, he would get jealous and want me.  Maybe I could use Marcus to get to James.  There was no way I was ever going to be able to corner James anywhere anyway.  He was faster than anything I had seen before. 
    “Hey you,” I typed to Marcus.
    “Hey Juliet, how are you doing?” he replied.              
    “I’m good.  I’ve been thinking about you,” I said flirtingly.
    This was wrong, I thought.  How could I do this to such a good friend?  He had always been there for me and now I was using him.  I was using him to get to James and it was wrong.  I was desperate, though.  I needed to feel James’s strong arms around me again.  I needed to see his glistening smile.  I needed him.
    “I’ve been thinking about you too,” he replied.
    It was too late to turn back now.  Now he is flirting back and I can’t take back what I said.  I can’t come out and say it was a mistake or I don’t mean it.  It would crush him and crush our friendship. 
    “Juliet!  Get down here!” my father yelled.
    As I went downstairs, I was wondering what could be wrong.  Did he find out and now was furious?  I went down to see him watching the news.
    “This is Terry Kerrington live at the scene.  Reports are surfacing that approximately thirty minutes ago, another bank was robbed downtown.  Here with more details is Deputy Tim Masterson.”
    “Yeah, what we have here is another androidian robbery.  This time they struck another Midtown Bank and Trust branch.  There were no casualties, and once again the robbery was swift and efficient.”
    “Deputy Masterson, what steps are your force going to take against these robbers?”
    “Well, I’m glad you asked, Terry.  We are going to be placing on-duty police officers at every Midtown Bank and Trust in town.  We feel that for some reason they are targeting this specific bank.  Once we get more details we will make them known to the public.”
    “Thank you, Deputy Masterson.  This is Terry Kerrington, signing off.”
    “Can you believe this?” my father screeched.
    “Another bank was robbed.  This is starting to get way out of hand.  How are they doing this?  Those wired freaks have always been nothing but trouble.  At least the vampires and werewolves aren’t breaking into places and stealing people’s money,” he exclaimed.
    I hadn’t seen my father this heated in a while.  He hadn’t been this mad since the androidian attack seven years ago in London.  I started to make my way back upstairs to talk more to Marcus.
    “Can you believe that?” I typed to him.
    “What?” he asked.
    “There was another bank robbery today.  Those androidians are all bad news,” I said.
    “I don’t think all of them are bad,” he said.  “There are always bad people in any group.  You shouldn’t label them all bad.”
    “I don’t know.  They all seem pretty bad to me.”
    Right after I said this, Marcus signed off.  What did I do?  Almost everyone thought badly about the androidians.  They were never around anywhere and when they were, bad things happened.  Of course people would think they are a bad group of people.  What else do we have to think?  That they are stand-up citizens who play with puppies in the park?
    I thought a lot that night.  I thought about James.  I thought about Marcus.  I even thought about Ashley and where she was right now.  Everything was my fault.  James wouldn’t talk to me.  Marcus was mad at me.  Even Ashley was probably in some prison somewhere because of me.  I was walking bad luck and who knows what I would do next.
    As I went to bed, my head was racing.  I slowly started drifting away until I was woken up by faint tapping on my bedroom window.  It was James.  He was there, looking at me, waiting for me to wake and open the window.
    I made my way over to the window and slowly and quietly opened it.
    “What are you doing