Clarity: A Young Adult Paranormal Vampire Romance (Blood Haze Book 4) by Tara Shuler Read Free Book Online

of the exorcism and helped save us all. Now I had belittled her simply because she had no special abilities.
    “I’m sorry,” I said quickly. “You’ve always been very helpful. That was stupid of me to say.”
    “It’s ok, Alice,” she said quietly. “I know I can’t do all the fancy things you guys do, but I can help if only you’ll let me.”
    “And you,” I said to Will. “We need to figure out something you can do.”
    His ears reddened, and he said, “I’ve actually discovered that I have an ability, too.”
    “What? ” I gasped. “Why are you just now telling me?”
    “Well, it’s not much,” he said. “But I can move things with my mind.”
    “Like Liam?” I asked.
    “No, not like Liam,” he said. “I can’t move big objects, and I can’t move stuff with force, but I can manipulate smal l objects. Like, I can unlock a door without a key, for example.”
    “That’s great!” I said, squeezing his shoulders. “I never knew you had an ability! How did you discover it. ”
    “Don’t tell her, Will,” Jamie begged.
    “Alice is family,” Will told her gently. “You know she won’t tell anyone, and she won’t laugh.”
    “Fine,” she muttered, dropping her head in shame.
    “She somehow managed to lock herself in the bathroom,” he whispered, leaning in close. “She realized she had no toilet paper in there with her and she started crying, and Mother was supposed to be coming to visit soon, and I knew I had to get her out of there. So I just looked down at the lock kind of helpless and it just opened.”
    “Wow!” I gasped. “That’s so cool.”
    “You think so?” Will asked. “I thought it was kind of silly.”
    “No, that could be really helpful,” I encouraged him.
    Will looked skeptical. “I don’t know, it’s just a parlor trick, really,” he said.”
    “You could help people escape from captivity, get into locked rooms, all kind of stuff. We really need someone like that. I’m serious!” I said. “Maybe Liam can help you practice. He was helping me train before…” I froze.
    “Before what?” Will prodded me.
    “Never mind,” I said. “Are you guys hungry? It’s almost lunchtime and Alexi forces me to eat  at certain times, and I’d love the company.”
    “I’m famished,” Will said.
    “Can I see the kitchen?” Jamie asked.
    “Sure, but why?” I asked her.
    “Jamie’s really gotten into cooking lately,” Will said. “She wants to be a chef.”
    “Jamie, that’s great!” I told her. “Let me take you into the kitchen and show you around. I’ve only been back there once, but it’s got all the equipment you could ever hope for!”
    “Speaking of that,” Liam said from his watchful spot near the stairs, where he’d been silently guarding me. “It is time for you to eat, Alice.”
    The cooks weren’t exactly thrilled that I’d brought an interloper into their kitchen, and even less so when I declared that Jamie would be preparing our lunch. But they could hardly argue with the Chancellor. It was the first time I’d felt a little bit of power in ages.
    Jamie turned out to be a fabulous cook. She made us a spectacular lunch of Thai food, including a spicy noodle soup that contained shrimp and cilantro, and chicken and vegetables in a coconut curry sauce s erved on top of steamed jasmine rice that left me actually wanting more. I hadn’t enjoyed a meal like that in so long.
    “Jamie, will you cook for us more often?” I asked her.
    “Won’t the cooks mind?” she asked.
    “Who cares? If they could cook like this I woul dn’t have to ask you to!” I said. “Please, Jamie. I’m begging you. Alexi forces me to eat, even when I’m not hungry, and the only way I can bear it is if you’re the one cooking. You don’t have to cook for everyone, just me.” Will nudged me, and I added, “And Will, of course.”
    Even Liam agreed, saying, “I hope I’m included, because the last time I tasted Thai food this delicious was when my