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Oaklynn let out a whimper of protest. “I just don’t want to have to explain how I escaped from my attacker.”
“Saved by a ghostdoessound a little out there,” Alec agreed with a wince as he circled a finger around his ear, making the crazy sign.
When I sent him a dirty scowl, he quickly lifted his hands. “Not thatIdon’tbelieve her. I’m just saying…”
I turned back to Oaklynn and took her fingers. “We need to report this. What if they can figure out who broke in?”
“Yeah… About that.” Oaklynn cringed before she ducked her face and admitted, “I, um, I’m actually pretty sure I already know who it was.”
My eyes narrowed, and my protective instinct kicked in. “Who?” I growled.
Because tonight was going to be the last night the bastard drew air into his lungs.
But Oaklynn only winced some more. Then she glanced around at the other three in the kitchen and rasped, “I think it was…Thalia’s murderer.”
“Uh...” Hudson lifted a hand, looking very skeptical. “I have questions.”
But I merely shook my head. “What makes you think it was the same guy?”
She paused before answering, “Because when Thalia woke me up to warn me that someone was breaking into the apartment, she said no fucking way was she going to let the prick do to me what he’d done to her.”
“Oh Jesus,” I choked out, gripping my head and spinning away from the others to deal with the dizziness that assailed me. “Oh fuck.”
I’d seen with my own eyes what had happened to Thalia. It would haunt my memories until the day I died. But to imagine the same person who’d done that to my sister now targeting Oaklynn…
Nausea claimed me, and I had to rest my hands on my knees to catch my breath.
“But why would he go afteryou?” Keene was asking.
I straightened and turned back to the conversation, answering for her, “Because she got a lead on who the fucker might be from something Thalia told her.” Meeting Oaklynn’s concerned eyes, I growled, “You started asking around campus about this Josh guy today, didn’t you?Son of a bitch…” I gripped my hair and met her worried gaze. “You must be on the right track, and he found out about it.”
“Wait, I’m lost,” Hudson admitted. “What did you find out from Thalia? And who the hell isJosh?”
After Oaklynn explained her lead, Keene shook his head. “So who did Library Girl talk to about it?”
“I don’t know,” Oaklynn admitted, looking slightly worried. “I’ll stop by the library first thing in the morning once I reach campus and—“
“Oh, you’re not going anywhere near campus tomorrow,” I swore.
Not when a murderer was there, intent to make her his next victim.
“Damien.” She sighed impatiently. “I have a test tomorrow. And a news report to film. I can’t miss either.”
Before I could argue with her about it, the back kitchen door burst open.
Oaklynn screamed and launched herself at me.
I caught her in my arms and twisted so that my body was physically between her and whoever was entering.
But as soon as Foster stepped inside with a purple suitcase, he pulled up short and lifted his hands.
“It’s just us.”
Thane and Parker piled in after him.
“Hey, sweetie,” Thane greeted immediately, going to Oaklynn first and tugging her from my arms so he could give her a big hug. “How’re you doing?”
“I was very nearly killed by an intruder before being saved by a ghost, so—you know—as well as can be expected, I suppose.”
