Change of Fate (The Briar Creek Vampires, #4) by Jayme Morse & Jody Morse by Jayme Morse Read Free Book Online

her right
now.
    “My father’s gone insane,” Mary-Kate said, sniffling
into the phone. “He thinks Lexi was here . . . and he wants a
warrant put out for her arrest.”
    “For what?” Austin asked incredulously. “She didn’t
do anything.”
    “For breaking and entering,” Mary-Kate replied. “I
said she didn’t do it, but he didn’t believe me.”
    Austin felt the heat rising to his cheeks. It was
just like Greg Lawrence to blame Lexi for this. He had already had
a warrant put out for her arrest, claiming that she had murdered
someone. A second warrant was only going to stir up the pot and
make it even more difficult for Lexi to go out in public without
getting caught.
    “Anyway,” Mary-Kate went on, interrupting his
thoughts, “I just wanted to let you know about that. I figured you
could pass the information on to her, since I can’t seem to get
ahold of her myself.”
    “Yeah, I’ll let Lexi know,” Austin muttered. He
wanted to tell Mary-Kate about what had happened; she was Lexi’s
half-sister, after all. Austin knew that he couldn’t do that,
though. If he told her what had happened, Greg Lawrence might
somehow find out that they had all been inside his house.
    “Be careful, okay?” Mary-Kate said, more of a
statement than a question.
    “I will be,” Austin replied quietly. He couldn’t
help but notice the seriousness in her voice. She was genuinely
worried about him, and here he was, not caring about how she felt.
It made him feel guilty – but it didn’t change the way he felt
about her.
    “Austin?” Mary-Kate asked.
    “Yeah?” Austin said into the phone.
    “I miss you,” Mary-Kate whispered.
    Austin glanced over at Anna. She was watching the
movie that they had ordered on pay-per-view on the hotel TV. Austin
had a feeling that she was listening to his conversation carefully,
though. At least, he would be if the situation was reversed and she
was on the phone with her boyfriend who she still hadn’t broken up
with yet. Austin didn’t want to hurt Mary-Kate’s feelings, but he
didn’t have much of a choice right now. If he kept Mary-Kate happy,
he would be hurting Anna, and he didn’t want that.
    “Me too,” Austin said into the phone before hitting
the ‘end’ button.
     
    *
     
    When Craig got back to the hotel room, Gabe was
sitting across from the strawberry blonde haired girl who had come
looking for him. Craig wasn’t going to ask questions; Gabe had made
it quite clear that they were going to stay out of each other’s
business during this awkward trip. Craig couldn’t help but feel
confused, though. He was pretty sure that Gabe and Lexi had been
involved with each other . . . before Gabe had left and she’d
gotten involved with him, that is.
    Had Gabe really moved on from Lexi that easily?
    Craig doubted it. If there was one thing that he
knew about vampires, it was that they didn’t take romance that
lightly. Sure, there were sometimes one night stands, just like
there were with humans, but it normally only happened when a
vampire was, to put it bluntly, hungry. When a vampire got
romantically involved with a human, it was usually for the long
haul . . . unless that vampire had an ulterior motive, of
course.
    Once Craig saw Gabe and the girl sitting together,
he started to turn around and walk back out the door. Before he
left the room, Gabe called his name. “Craig? Can you come
here?”
    Craig turned back around and walked over to
them.
    “So, Craig? That’s your name, cutie?” the girl
asked, batting her eyelashes like butterfly wings at him.
    Craig smiled. “Yup, that would be me.” He sat down
on the bed next to her and looked at Gabe. “So, what’s going
on?”
    “I had a vision,” Gabe told him. “Ben is somewhere
near a beach. That’s all I’ve seen so far. I need to take a walk,
but would you mind telling Austin and Anna when you see them?”
    Craig nodded. “Sure. I’ll let them know.”
    “Thanks,” Gabe muttered before walking out of