Fading Into Darkness: The Under Series Book 2 by Dakota Lake Read Free Book Online Page A

dress code.
The male servant posted at the front door held it open for us and I followed Cam outside.
“So I was talking to Emmett earlier. He said your memory loss has been upsetting you recently.”
I shrugged. Annoyed with Emmett for telling him.
“Only some days. It's just annoying not being able to remember anything about growing up here. It
still all looks so....so....I don't know, not quite right to me.” I said looking over at a hedgehog with
blue spikes running across the grass.
He nodded listening carefully.
“This place takes a little getting used to,” he smiled. “Emmett said you haven't been spending as
much time with him as you used to.”
Was there anything Emmett didn't tell him? Emmett was a sneaky little weasel and every day I grew
more and more distant from him. I didn't like talking to him and I didn't trust him and I was sure he
had been spying on me for Cam.
“Emmett gets bored of listening to me. He thinks I whine too much about my memory loss so I
don't want to bore him anymore. I prefer spending time with the horses on the meadow that and
they don't choke me with second-hand smoke.” I said hoping he would drop the subject.
“So who else do you talk to?”
“I dunno I don't keep track of the people I talk to,” I replied a bit hastily. “Um I spend a lot of time
with Kenzie when he's here. He's a lot of fun.”
“Emmett said he's seen you going up to the third floor.”
I clenched my fist. I would love to punch Emmett in the face right now.
“Yeah I've been up there but only a few times. I like the pool tables. But I don't go up there much
it's a bit noisy and smoky for my liking and the boys are quite loud.”
“Anyone in particular you play pool with up there?” he asked digging for information.
“No not really. I can never remember their names there's so many different faces up there. I know
one of them is called Alex I've played pool with him before.”
It wasn't a lie I'd played pool with Alex a couple of times. And I did remember many of their names
because I spent more time than I liked to admit up there. Lucky for me Emmett didn't follow me up
there. Senka had once told me that Emmett wasn't welcome on the third floor. Not many up there
liked him and I'd heard many of the guys upstairs joking that Emmett was Cam's obedient little
minion and dogsbody. So I knew it was a good place to hide from him and Cam never went up
there. Senka had said it was none of Cam's business what everyone got up to up there it was their
own private area. I felt kind of special knowing the guys didn't mind me up there, well except for
Alex.
That's why I had given Alex's name to Cam, I knew if he questioned him Alex wouldn't say
anything because he was friends with Senka. He may not like me very much but he wasn't going to
rat me out because he knew Senka was friends with me. I didn't like to think about what Cam would
do if he knew I played poker with the guys and did shots at the bar. I would probably be banned for
improper behaviour. Ugh! Cam was so old fashioned.
“You know it's your nineteenth birthday soon.”
“Is it?” I replied dryly not really bothered by this new information. I had other things on my mind.
“You missed you eighteenth because you were sleeping. I thought we could do something special
for you for your nineteenth.”
“You mean like a party?” I asked.
“Yes. There are many people that would like to meet you and with you waking up we have even
more reason to celebrate. What do you think?”
“Who are these people and why haven't I met them before?”
“Just distant relatives of mine. You've never met them before because they haven't been over here in
a long time.”
He had said 'a long time' . I thought it was strange seeing as I had apparently been here nearly
nineteen years. I thought I would have met Cam's relatives before now.
“Sure, whatever.” I said noticing he was waiting for my answer.
“Don't be too enthusiastic about it.” he joked but he