Chapter 17 _Haunted_

Chapter 17 "Haunted"

Kyoko glanced up when Kyou laid the phone on the nightstand and turned without saying a word, walking into the next room. Now that her momentary embarrassment was gone, she looked around the room wondering what the phone call had been about. Sliding from the bed, she hurried to get dressed, intending to go ask Kyou exactly what was wrong.

She could tell the phone call wasn't a good one even if his expression hadn't changed. His aura had turned a couple shades darker. More like dangerously dark, and she wanted to know why. The one thing that worried her was the fact that he was trying to hide it from her.

Kyou lifted the lid and reached into the display case housing both his swords and the twin daggers. His smooth fingertips skimmed over the cold surface of the daggers blades wondering at the power that seemed to crackle around them. With a narrowing of his eyes, he found himself reaching across them and taking his own powerful sword and sliding it into the s