Blood Descendants (St. Clair Vampires Book 1) by Beverly Toney Read Free Book Online Page A

back to
me.
    “ They’re
gone right now and we have to go, too.”
    “ What
the hell is going on?” I whispered, a little shook up.
    “ Just
hurry. We don’t have much time.” Tabitha looked me
straight in my eyes and asked me to do the impossible. “Trust
me”, she said.
    She held out her hand
and I took it, surprising myself to no end. For the life of me I
didn’t know why I trusted this girl, but I did. She quietly
slid through the open window and then reached up for the duffel bag.
Once I dropped it into her arms I did my best to squeeze my 5’9”
frame through the same tiny opening. I finally dropped to the ground
with a thud and wondered how Tabitha had done it with so much quiet
grace.
    As soon as I was on the
ground, Tabitha led me around the back of the bus away from the
lights of the gas station. Not too far from where we stood was a
steep hill separating us from the highway below. In complete
darkness, we started down the embankment toward the noise of traffic.
We climbed about 20 yards down and crouched behind a rock.
    “ So…”
I started.
    “ Look,”
Tabitha interrupted. “I will tell you everything once we get to
the house, I promise this time. What I will tell you now is this:
your life depends on us getting away from this gas station without
being heard or seen. Can you just trust me?”
    Before I could answer
we heard noises from the bus. The driver had returned and was trying
to start the engine when someone started yelling. At first I didn’t
understand what the problem was until I heard a boy’s voice and
I froze.
    “ Where
the hell is she? Did you check the bathroom and the store? What about
the Mc Donald’s over there?” The boy sounded furious.
    “ Are
they looking for me?” I whispered.
    “ Yes,
they are.”
    I
began to run through all of the reasons my foster mom would have sold
me out and greed just didn’t seem like one of her virtues. I
had to force myself to remember what I heard her say to the boy with
the white hair and steeled my resolve. I started to stand up when I
heard a sound of footsteps just a few feet from where we sat. I froze
and looked towards Tabitha. She was digging around the ground
frantically looking for something.
    Just as the footsteps
were getting louder and I began to panic, Tabitha grabbed my ponytail
in her hands and began rubbing something into my hair. It smelled
like…dog mess! OH. MY. GOODNESS. She just put dog crap in my
hair and now she was putting it into her own. I didn’t know if
I should be more horrified that I was being hunted or that I was
covered in crap! My decision was made for me when the footsteps
stopped on the other side of the rock.
    “ Raphael,
where should we look?” asked an unfamiliar voice.
    “ Everywhere!
She can’t have gone far. And she has to be with that blond
witch. I knew we should have killed her when we had the chance!”
    Finally, the boy with
the white hair had a name; Raphael. I would know that smooth voice
anywhere, and right now he was about four feet away from me. He
looked like he was in charge of the other two. But why did they want
me and why in the world would they want to kill Tabitha. I turned
toward her and saw that her eyes reflected the light like a cat’s
eyes would. If not for the current danger that she was keeping me
from, I would have run from her. A slight smile crossed her face as
she tilted her chin just slightly and sniffed the air. The only thing
I could smell was the dog crap stuck in our hair so I decided to hold
my breath.
    “ Call
it in,” said Raphael. “Grigor is going to be pissed.”
    From our position I
could see the faint light of a cell phone as the screen turned on to
make a call. The threesome had started to walk away so I was unable
to hear the conversation but I had heard enough already. Since she
knew more about what was going on, I waited for Tabitha to move, but
she stayed still for a long time. We heard the bus pull away and
watched it head to the on ramp and