Semua Bab So You Think Your Sister's a Vampire?: Bab 141 - Bab 150

Once I was in my room, I closed the door behind me, sat down on the edge of the bed and called my sister. It went to voicemail. I was so agitated, I almost chucked my phone across the room. I sent her a text. “Now is good.”I wouldn’t have been shocked if Cadence made me wait an hour or two. Trying to calm my anxiety over what she might have to say and head off my agitation, I picked up my laptop and scanned the news sites, something I’d been doing basically every day since Elliott had mentioned this to me around the time of the killings in Cabo. The headlines jumped out at me. Two plane crashes near Dallas, a school nearby having some sort of vague intruder scare, a truck wreck leaving a man dead. Apparently, my sister had been in Texas.My phone rang, startling me. I set my laptop aside and answered it. “Hello?”“Well, hello there, dear sister. You sound irritated.”“I tried to call you, and you didn

I was glad calling my sister didn’t actually require any dialing because I imagined I’d be like one of those nervous women in one of those old films, trying to get her shaking finger to make the rotary dial go all the way around in a circle. Instead, I only had to press a few buttons to get my sister on the phone. For some reason, I decided to FaceTime her. Probably not the best idea since Lucy and Emma were there, and I didn’t know if Cadence was aware they’d been helping me. I had a feeling Aaron knew—he seemed to know a lot of things he shouldn’t be aware of—but at the time, I didn’t care. I just needed my sister to see the sincerity in my expression when I told her the big news. We’d actually found Giovani.“Cassidy? What’s up?”Cadence looked relieved to see I was calling for some reason. Though her greeting was nonchalant, I could tell by her tone something was going on. I tried to figure out

“Well, I’m not staying up for all that,” I said, yawning. “I say, we go to sleep, and we can work on that tomorrow. And if I can talk my sister into letting me go to KC tomorrow, then I’m doing it, and you two can fend for yourselves.”“Like you were any help anyway,” Lucy teased, and I glared at her before she started giggling. “Okay, I agree. And I must say, I’m very proud of you for staying off of there without us the last few days as we agreed. And for staying away from the news headlines.”“Thank you,” I said, getting up to grab my pajamas out of my dresser drawer. Emma had brought her sleeping bag and would crash on the floor, and while Lucy and I would both fit in the bed, I thought I might go sleep in Cadence’s room just because I kinda wanted some quiet, and Lucy had a tendency to talk until she passed out. “I have to say, though, this is truly killing me, you guys.&rdquo

My sister actually got to our house early, which shocked me, but then I found out that she’d insisted Aaron fly her so that she could take a nap. That was fine with me, though. That meant we’d get back to headquarters all the faster.Mom and Dad were not thrilled to find out I’d be spending the weekend in Kansas City. “I just think it’s all too fast,” my mom said as I sat in the living room with my bags, waiting for Cadence to arrive. “You’re only sixteen, and barely that. You don’t even have your driver’s license yet, sweetie.”“What does that have to do with anything?” I’d asked, trying not to be snarky.“Your mother is just saying, it’s been an awfully lot of change this past year,” my dad had explained. “I think you should just slow down a little, honey.”“You know Cadence will keep me safe,” I reminded them. “Nothing dan

My sister was already headed toward the door. I remembered the remark Aaron had made in the airplane about Cadence having no clue what was going on with me and decided to mess with my sister a little bit. “Which one is Jamie?”Cadence held the door for me and said, “He’s the Healer.”“The one with the spiky hair?” I asked. Not, “The one that took me to visit Grandma?”“That’s him.” We waited for the elevator to reach the penthouse level, and she didn’t even seem to think it strange I wouldn’t know who Jamie was. So, I continued to have my fun.“I remember Meagan and Aurora. What’s that other guy’s name? The one with the weird accent?”“That’s Christian,” Cadence replied as we stepped into the elevator. “He’s not here right now, though.”“Oh, where’s he at?” I found that surprising a