Semua Bab So You Think Your Sister's a Vampire?: Bab 531 - Bab 540

Still, I couldn’t just blab everything to Elliott, especially not since I’d just decided I wasn’t even going to tell my sister. “What do you mean?”He ran his tongue over his lips like he’d also felt that blast of hot air and it had dried them out before he asked, “What were you doing yesterday when Daunator got stuck in your head?”I had known he was in the hallway when I was talking to Brandon, trying to get the monster out, but I didn’t realize until that moment how carefully he’d been paying attention to what I was screaming about. “I was checking on these people.” I tipped my head in the direction of the stacks of paper all over my coffee table but didn’t pull my hand out. I needed to get him off course, make him think he was wrong. “I found one of them. I was just about to go tell Cadence and Aaron—some of these missing people are those creatures Eliza fought. Daunator is ke

Mrs. Carminati is one of the nicest people in the world. I could seriously stand at her desk and talk for hours. She smells kind of like cookies and flowers, but in the sort of way that makes you just want to hug her. Even though I wasn’t feeling very good about myself when I walked into the office, her smile instantly made me feel better.“Well, hello there, Cassidy. How are you today?”“Fine,” I said, managing a smile. “How are you?”“Fair to middlin’,” she said with a little chuckle. I’d heard my grandmother say that before and figured it meant somewhere in the middle. “Glad the weather’s finally starting to cool off a bit. Us humans care about such things.”“I remember.” Had it been all that long since I’d been human myself? Not really, but it seemed like an eternity. I leaned against the counter. “Cadence wanted to see me.”“

Taking a deep breath, I knocked on Brandon’s door, hoping my mouth would be as confident as my feet had been when they led me here. I was praying he was home while I still had the nerve to talk to him about everything. But he wasn’t answering. I knocked again, a little harder this time, but not the bone-shattering way I’d pounded on his door the night before.Waiting for him to open up, I thought about the conversation I’d just had with the bosses. I didn’t want to go over it all again. I couldn’t explain why I felt the way I did, but I felt like I was letting everyone down. At one point, I actually thought I should go ahead and get Christian while I was sitting there, but I hadn’t done it. I hated the fact that Cadence had put me in the middle of the situation—keep my promise or help the team. Maybe I was just being stubborn.And with Elliott’s speech earlier, about how I’m not who I used to be and I’m

A few moments later, he stopped laughing enough to say, “Thank you for filling me in, Cass. It sounds like I’m missing out on a lot of information still, but at least I know what you’ve been up to. It must’ve been stressful for you, trying to keep Christian’s secret when you knew it would be better for both of you if you got him some help. I can imagine that must’ve been very distracting.”He seemed to think my confession was over, and if I was smart, I would’ve left it at that. But as long as I was baring my soul, I may as well press on and clear the air of everything. I didn’t want for us to get back together with any secrets between us. “It was difficult, Brandon, but if I’m going to be completely honest with you, I have to say, that wasn’t the only problem.”The color slowly drained from his face. “There’s more?”I wasn’t sure how to explain the rest of what

“Jamie is hoping Eliza or someone will take one of the creatures captive tonight so he can do some experiments on them when we get over there. I’m not sure what we can do, but we’ll try our best.” Cadence sounded hopeful despite the odds.“All right. Heather coming, too?”“We’ll need her. She can float things and throw shields.”“Right. We’re leaving at 8:00, so Brandon and I need to be at the airport at 7:30?”She was quiet for a second, and I could see her rolling her eyes in my head even though I couldn’t actually see her at all. “Cass....”“I need him there, sis. I don’t work as well without him as I do when he’s there. We just got back together. If you want me at my levitating best, I need my most trusted Guardian.”“Cassidy, it’s only necessary personnel.