Warrior Saints - Destroyer
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I didn’t hear another step, and couldn’t stop the beat of curiosity in my thumping heart. I put my thumbs on 911. “You have thirty seconds. Explain yourself. I’ll call the police.”
“Don’t bother. They’ve already arrested me once, and they had to let me go because I haven’t done anything.”
His phone light shone on his face.
“You’re the electrician who caused the gym fire and ran from me in Colorado.” I stumbled upward and tried to hit the buttons, but even I calmed down when I realized he was nowhere near me and didn’t appear to be trying to gain ground.
“I didn’t cause the gym fire,” he called up the stairs.
My gut did a flip. The way he dropped his gaze warned me that was probably a lie.
“I’m not even an electrician,” he continued. “I mean, I was, I’m certified, but that’s not my job. Not now. And I ran for a reason in Colorado.”
“Stonehaven Academy is on fire. Did you do that too?”
He looked straight at me. “What? No! Please. I only want to tell you something and then I’ll go.”
Rays of light bounced off his phone and mine as we maneuvered to see each other in the dim stairwell. The dogwalkers wandered by beneath us, and I felt no immediate threat from the stranger on the steps.
That in itself should have scared me more.
I didn’t get any closer, but didn’t continue to run either.
“Say what you need to say and go away. My mother will be looking for me, and I’m calling 911.”
“I’m not who or what villain you think I am, Ivy. That scoreboard fire looks like an electrical malfunction, and I sure haven’t tried to burn down your whole school. I didn’t even know about that.”
“How could you miss it?”
“I told you, the authorities just let me go.” He looked genuinely distraught through the bars of the rail below me. “Ivy Lynette Van Camp,” he called out. “Lynette is your grandmother’s name, by the way. That’s why it’s your middle name.”
“How would you know that?”
Especially when I didn’t even know that.
“You were born December seventh at two-thirty-eight in the morning,” he continued. “And you are my daughter.”
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Carla Thorne has been writing YA fiction since 2013. She is a multi-published, award-winning author as well as an editor, cancer survivor, life-long musician, speaker, and writing teacher.
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