Veins of Vengeance
Why now?
Sighing, I picked up the phone and took the call.
“Hey,” he rasped into the phone almost immediately.
“Hey,” I returned, my throat patched.
“Uhm,” he cleared his throat, “I was wondering, you know, since my sister’s missing and all,” he cleared his throat again, awkwardly. “I was wondering if you could come see my local finals at my school tomorrow.”
I swallowed, wondering what this meant all of a sudden.
The tension between Dante and I had eased off a bit after I saved him from the claws of my father and his minions. But it didn’t mean we were exactly close buddies, or even buddies at all, for him to be asking this of me, especially now that his sister was missing.
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