She had.
Her smile was warm when she said, “I hope so.”
I reached down, brushing her hair back over her shoulder, then traced the line of her jaw to the point of her chin.
“You’d better be planning on kissing me, Brian Shaw,” she said in a breathless whisper.
“I am,” I whispered back, sealing her lips to mine.
Tiny, electric currents heated our bodies, and all I could think was there was nothing in the world that had ever felt more right than holding this one girl in my arms. If she was the only one I would ever hold again, I’d die happy. And from the way she melted into the kiss, wrapping her arms around my neck, I was sure she was thinking the same thing.
Unfortunately, the moment was interrupted by an enormous crash in the building behind us.
Unlike normal teenagers, who would have stayed in the moment, and ignored the world around them, we both jumped, and I instinctively shoved her behind me, away from whatever threat might come.
“What was that?” she asked, peeking around my shoulder.
“I don’t know, it came from inside the school,” I whispered.
“Isn’t Wynter the school librarian? Maybe it’s her. No one has seen her since she left the crypt. Maybe she isn’t well,” Tori was thinking aloud, “What if she needs our help?”
I rolled my eyes, “I doubt a Spriteblood actually needs any help from the likes of us.”
“We need to go make sure,” she said stubbornly, crossing her arms over her chest.
“You really are going to make me save you all the time, aren’t you,” I said, amazed.
She grinned, “You bet.”
The front door of the school was unlocked, which in itself was strange. Those doors were always secure when school was not in session. We crept down the hallways, peering into the glass of each door we passed.
Another crash erupted with the sounds of splintering wood, pointing us down the hallway to the enormous doors of the library.
“I told you it was her,” Tori hissed.
As quietly as we could, we opened the door and slipped inside.
Books lay everywhere, masses of strewn paper and filing cabinets were flipped over. Bookcases were turned over. But the source of the crashes came from behind the desk, where a single figure of a man stood, enormous double-edged axe poised to strike once again at the remains of a plain, paneled wall.
The axe was three times bigger than the man who wielded it. He struck the wall again, and chunks of insulation and paneling flew through the air. The magic in the library had gone, Wynter had taken it with her. But someone still searched for it.
Tori gasped as a piece of wood landed near her feet.
Hearing her, the man turned. He was short and bald, with eyes that seemed ready to bulge from their sockets. The image of the school principal flickered like a light bulb, and then went out.
“What have you done?” the Woodsburl snarled through his tusk-like teeth, “She was the only one who could keep them away!”
He swung the axe down from his shoulder, burying it in the middle of the desk in fury.
“She’s gone, thanks to you,” he fixed us with an angry glare. “And we’re all doomed.”
K.R. Thompson was raised in the mountains of rural Virginia. She resides in Bland County with her husband, son, two cats and an undeterminable amount of chickens.
When she is not writing, she is an avid reader and a firm believer in magic. She still watches for evidence of Bigfoot in the mud of Wolf Creek.
She can be found on her website —
http://authorkrthompson.wix.com/thekeepersaga
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Welcome to Bland!
Chapter One Ella
Chapter Two Brian
Chapter Three Brian
Chapter Four Ella
Chapter Five Brian
Chapter Six Ella
Chapter Seven Brian
Chapter Eight Ella
Chapter Nine Brian
Chapter Ten Brian
Chapter Eleven Ella
Chapter Twelve Brian
Chapter Thirteen Ella
Chapter Fourteen Brian
Chapter Fifteen Ella
Chapter Sixteen Brian
Chapter Seventeen Brian
Chapter Eighteen Ella
Chapter Nineteen Brian
Chapter Twenty Ella
Chapter Twenty-One Brian
Chapter Twenty-Two Ella
Chapter Twenty-Three Brian
Chapter Twenty-Four Ella
Chapter Twenty-Five Brian
Chapter Twenty-Six Brian
Chapter Twenty-Seven Brian
Chapter Twenty-Eight Brian
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