Darkness & Discovery (The Bespelled Trilogy #2) (28 page)

I
didn’t feel anything.

“Lu!
Oh God, please no.” Joey was crying, tears streaming down his face.

“Love
you, Joey. Find Alastair. Take care of each other.” I hoped I said that out
loud. I couldn’t be sure, not of that, not of anything.

My
eyelids slid shut, and I didn’t have the energy to open them again. It was
cold, and it was grey, and somewhere, a long way off, my best friend was
yelling my name.

And
then there was absolutely nothing.

Epilogue

“So, this is what hell
looks like.”

“It’s
not quite hell,” Joey said, “but close. It’s actually the back of a 1970’s era van.
I don’t think hell has shag carpeting…but I could be wrong.”

I
sat up and looked at my best friend. He was seated a couple feet away, hugging
his knees to his chest and watching me with an unreadable expression. I pushed
my hair out of my face and asked, “What happened?”

“Elizabeth
tracked us down. She must have gotten word that Alastair was in Las Vegas.”
Joey’s voice was subdued, and he tilted his head, looking at me oddly.

“I
remember. We were at the hospital. She had a sword.” I looked down at my chest.
My sweater was caked with dried blood, and it had a hole in it, right above my
heart. “She stabbed me.” Joey nodded, and I said, “You found me, and you killed
her. And that’s all I remember. Was I badly hurt?” Joey nodded again. “How
badly?”

“You
were a moment from death, Lu. So I turned you.”

“Turned
me? You mean into a vampire?”

“Well,”
he said, knitting his brows, “that was the idea. But it…didn’t exactly go
according to plan.”

“What
does that mean?”

He
answered my question with another question, one that made absolutely no sense
to me. “What do you know about your father?”

“Nothing.
He left when I was a toddler. Why?”

“I
don’t think your dad was human, Lu. At least, not fully.”

“What
are you talking about? What was he?”

He
shrugged, still watching me closely. “I’m really not sure.”

“Joey,
I don’t understand any of this. Please tell me what’s going on.”

“You
were dying,” he said, “so I turned you to try and save you, like I said. Only,
you didn’t exactly come back as a vampire. You came back as…something else.”

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