The Blood Moon Twins – Chapter 13
REMY
\tWhen I woke up, my neck was stiff from the position I had fallen asleep in. I cracked my eyes open and saw that Harper was still asleep on the bed with me, but Caulder was nowhere to be seen. I slowly sat up and stretched my body. I had slept curled into a ball to make room for the extra people in my bed, and my body was now complaining.
\tAs I stretched, Harper stirred awake. She groaned and grabbed a pillow, hugging it tightly. “What time is it?” she muttered, trying to bury her face.
dn’t move.
sition. She poked me in the side. “Come on. Let’s go get breakfast before all of the good stuff gets eaten.”
ven though my stomach was with Harper.
bbed my hand and started pulling
ed. “I don’t want to go by myself.”
s at her. “If I agree
t of the bed and started to play with her hair. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
t, because I didn’t want to scare either of you, but did you really think you were being sneaky? Come on. Spill. Are you two dating or what?”
ose two dating, even if a small part of me was jealous. I knew they would be good for each other, and I wanted to see both of them happy.
It was a pretty bad habit of hers. “But I may have kissed him last night.”
e flirting, but this was unexpected. “You kissed him?”
momentary lapse in judgment.”
ndication of actually liking him before, so I wasn’t expecting this sudden switch. But maybe I had just missed the signs.
tried not to entertain the thought before.”
ad never said anything before. “How long have you liked him?”
in response. “I used to
ret from me.
der or anything else.”
s my twin brother. She was my family, too. “Harper, I want you to know that I am on your side one hundred percent when it comes to you and Caulder. If he does anything to hurt you, I will beat him up myself.” I grabbed her hand and pulled her over to t
e breakfast.”
ck of my head, but I didn’t want to mope about it today.
. I suddenly stopped and said to Harper, “Go on ahead. I’ll be there in a moment.”
d I wasn’t in the mood to talk to my mom.
” Ginger asked without even looking up.
xth sense about people, and it startled me on occasion.
as sitting in her little arm chair in the corner of the room, and it looked like she was knitting a scraggly little scarf for a rat. I
yarn and then cursed under her breath as the yarn slipped again and again.
ppened yesterday, that was what made the least sense to me. It didn’t seem to tie into the attack, and no one else saw it happen. It didn’t relate to anything from what I could see, but it had to mean something.
ion. She set down her project and looked at me fully. “Some sorcerers can predict the future to a certain extent, but that is only a matter of being able to observe your sur
tle eerie. It was like she could read my mind or see the future, but she swore it wasn’t the case.
“But do you ever see an actual image of the future, like a vision?” The moon turning red had felt so real, so I didn’t think it was a hallucination, but since no one else saw, I also knew it hadn’t happened in r
en she spoke, which left an implication lingering in the air.
ll light in the palm of my hand. If this meant I had some sort of magical ability, it would mean maybe I had more magic than I thought possible.
was looking deep into my soul. “What did you see, child?”
e wasn’t exactly much ability for me to hone when it came to magic, unlike Caulder. However, I still viewed Ginger as a grandmother. She was someone I could go to with my problems when I felt like I couldn’t talk to my parents.
e,” Ginger said.
that?”
and she grew tired more easily. She never told us how old she actually was, but the wrinkles on her face told me she had seen many decades, and I knew she was the oldest person I knew.
en, the moon will turn red for a brief period of time.”
hat.”
d he lived outside of the pack house, so I didn’t see him very often. I had been to his house a few times with my mom, and it had looked like an unorganized library. He talked fast, barely taking a brea
myself. It was just difficult for me to talk to him, and I wanted to avoid the awkward interaction.
get to breakfast. Harper is waiting for me.”
ld have been shifting, and I can feel something looming over us.”
lowed hard and my heart began to race. If what had happened yesterday was just the beginning, I needed to figure out what the blood moon had to do with any of this as soon as possible. I