Sitting up, I look at the screen. “You see it too?” He nods, and I take it from him to answer it.
My heart skips a beat, and a lump forms in my throat as I answer it, popping it on loudspeaker.
“Evie? Evie, you there?”
Shock hits me. Thaddeus nudges me with his arm, and I shake my shock off. “Lana?” I ask.
“Evie, I have been trying to call for hours! I need help, please! You have to help me,” she says, and I can’t help the tears of relief that she is okay. “Evie?” Her frightened voice comes again.
“Yes, I am here. I thought you are dead,” I tell her. Silence on the other end. “Lana?” I ask when she says nothing.
“I think I am. I don’t know, but I need help. I remember the bullet hitting me in the chest; then, I felt cold. I’m scared, Evie,” she says.
Thaddeus stands up; I wrap my legs around his waist as he starts walking toward the door.
“Wait, where are you?” I ask her.
“I don’t know; I am in some metal box. I can’t move. The door is next to my feet, and I can’t open it,” she tells me. Metal box?
I look at Thaddeus, and he says one word. “Morgue.”
Morgue? Thaddeus takes the phone from me while I try and wrap my head around what he said.
“Hi Lana, this is Thaddeus,” he tells her.
“Argh, hi, where has Evie gone?”
“Never mind that for now; do you feel strange?” he asks.
“My throat is burning,” she admits. Thaddeus kisses my forehead, and Orion comes over. I try to put my feet down and stand, but Thaddeus jostles me, making me remain where I am, his arm tightening around my waist, so I wrap my legs back around him.
“I am sending Orion to come to get you. You know Orion?”
“Yes, but why not Evie?”
“You will see Evie, but Orion is faster. He will come to get you and bring you here,” Thaddeus tells her. He hands my phone back to me, and I answer it.
“Lana, you there?” I can hear Thaddeus and Orion whisper to each other but can’t hear what they are saying. The next second, Orion disappears, the front door left wide open.
“Evie, is it true?”
“Is what true?” I ask her; she sounds so frightened.
“What April said, that Derrick….”
“Yes, Lana, but don’t worry about that. Orion is coming to get you, okay?”
“My phone is dying,” she tells me and the phone cuts out completely. I try to call her back, but it goes to voicemail.
“She is alive; April didn’t kill her,” I tell Thaddeus.
He shakes his head. “I think she did; you should prepare yourself. Lana may be different when she comes here,” he tells me. I don’t care if she is different as long as she is alive. Lana is alive. No matter how traumatized she is, she will get through it. But why is she in a morgue?
“Why would she be in a morgue?” I ask, as the realization of what Thaddeus said hits me. “Is she dead?”
Thaddeus nods.
“But how? I just spoke to her? She is human like me.”
“Many people are walking around with vampire DNA, completely unaware, so when they die, we find out when they come back as the small amount of vampire DNA brings them back. We learned all this when my mother died having me.”
“So, you’re saying Lana is a vampire?”
“I would be willing to bet my life on it,” he says. Either way, I don’t care as long as she is alive. She will get through this.
Ryland suddenly starts walking down the steps, rubbing his eyes and yawning. “Morning,” he grumbles, and Thaddeus lets me down. I rush over to him and jump on him. Ryland catches me, and I wrap my legs around him. “Why are you so happy?” he asks, confused, looking at Thaddeus.
“Lana is alive!” I tell him.
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