Fiona Frost: Order of the Black Moon by Dr. Bon Blossman Read Free Book Online Page A

Probably had their butler go to the station and escort her to a limousine,” Maddie whined cynically.
    I heard a particularly distinctive voice from behind me.
    “Oh crap, ” I mumbled dismally , dropping my shoulders, twisting around to see if my ears had played tricks on me.
    “What is it, Fiona ? ”
    Scanning the cafeteria, I stop ped on a familiar lanky blonde and lock ed into a n antagonistic gaze with her . My cousin Haley had taken her place in line and was smil ing at me like the Cheshire cat .

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    “No freaking way ! She didn’t get on the plane and crept back in to school! ” I shrieked , spinning my head back around to face Maddie —her face a mask of fury .
    “Text your parents right now , tell them , ” she demanded, glaring over my shoulder at Haley.
    Cursing under my breath, I frantically shot off a text to my mom and another to my dad. I figured that she faked them out at the airport and probably hitched a ride back to school. This was just the kind of thing she would pull , especially with Janice ill . I wasn’t surprised af ter my initial shock wore off.
    “Great, like we don’t have enough on our plates right now with everything that’s going on with my father! ”
    I sulked as I leaned down to grab my backpack .
    The rest of the day was a mental nightmare. P anicked and saddened from Wolfe’s note , I couldn’t come up with a viable solution — it was a solid out for me in one instance, but my heart screamed it was a mistake to let go of him that way. My parents had warned me at an early age that a boy could derail my ambitions, s o I had always remained cautious, never seeking relationships , keeping my nose in books . I had the rest of my life to worry with boys .
    As soon as the end-of-the-day bell rang , I rushed into my lab for the scheduled lab meeting . Lauren and Willow filed in , followed by Maddie and Carden , who scrambled to his seat at the back of the lab, as usual . I waited for Wolfe for a few minutes before checki ng my text messages. Nothing.
    “Oh, Fiona, I forgot to tell you. I saw Wolfe in the hallway , and he told me to let everybody know he had to jet after sch ool and would miss the meeting,” Lauren reported in a raspy voice.
    “Yea h , I saw him talking to that vampire chick, Camber, after fifth period, by the way,” Willow added sarcastically , laughing under her breath .
    I rritation surged from my core at her words. I couldn’t believe that he wouldn’t tell me directly he was missing a lab meeting , as he’d never missed a lab meeting before. This was entirely strange.
    “He was talking to one of the suspects, Willow? Are you sure ? ” I asked cautiously.
    “Uh, yea h . She’s my next-door neighbor; I know her . They looked a little flirty if you ask me, but I could be reading into things .”
    After swallowing the news of Wolfe’s hallway encounter, I rushed through the lab meeting and got everybody up to speed on the details from Detective Chase. I wanted to get out of there as soon as possible. We processed the evidence and organized who would be in charge of each type of data before engaging in experiments on the samples we had collected.
    The lab was dead silent, and I had forgotten about Gerald Smith until I noticed Agent Bronson pop his head into the lab —he had moved positions from the parking lot because the school had let out. He had taken a position outside of the laboratory door. After giving me a quick smile , he retreated to his spot in the hallway.
    My phone vibrated , and I rushed to pull off my gloves to see who the text message was from, hoping it was from Wolfe. It was my father . He said Haley would stay with us until further notice . There was a last minute issue with the boarding school , and he promised to g ive me the details later . This was not good news. A text message came through a second later from my mother that essentially said the same.
    After working in the lab for most of the evening, my assigned