Aftermath (27 page)

“I needed to get
away. I think even you could understand that,” I offered as an
explanation.

She nodded. “Your
brother is doing well.” I scoffed, because I didn’t remember
asking about him. “You on the other hand,” she continued, while
giving me a once-over, “you’ve really let yourself go, haven’t
you? What a waste, having a human form!” She laughed with a little
more humor this time.

“I was human. This is
my form,” I bit out. I wondered what she saw in me and I looked
down at my bare torso. It was no wonder, I wasn’t even properly
dressed.

“Mmm,” was all she
replied as she left me to sit on a chair.

“So, why am I here?”
I remembered my human courtesies and sat down across from her.

She regarded me for a
while and I was silent, letting her play her games.

Her mouth parted for a
while before the words came out, “I think it’s time to go back to
New Orleans.”

“I was just in New
Orleans taking care of that vampire situation.”

“I meant for good.”
She leaned back in her chair, her braids thrown over her shoulders.
“Are you still planning on destroying yourselves just to break the
curse?”

I clenched my jaw and
gave her a curt nod. Did everyone know what we were planning? That we
would rather not exist at all then have to continue to serve the
Underworld?

“What if there was
another way? Would you do it? How far would you go to be released
from the hold of the Underworld?”

“Anything,” I said
with slightly more emotion. She already knew the answer.

“Kill?”

I scoffed. Wasn’t
that what I was created to do?

“A human?”

Jenna-Lynne Duncan
graduated from the University of St. Thomas with degrees in Political
Science, International Studies and Middle Eastern Studies. She is the
author of the popular young adult novel
Hurricane
, and the
novella
Tempest
. She is currently working on a fourth
Hurricane
novel as well as another YA series. Besides writing,
Jenna-Lynne likes children and traveling. Preferably together.

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