TRYST - A DEREK HALE LOVE STORY (BOOK - 1 OF MONSTER SERIES)

CHAPTER - 36 : RESCUING CLAIR

After Charles' funeral, Venice once again went to the place where they found Charles' body. Lily was with her along with Nick and Allison. While Allison stayed with Venice, right beside her and Nick behind them, Lily was a few more feet behind them. She kept complaining that that place felt like death and all of them agreed. Nick kept looking around while Venice slowly ventured towards the dock. Everything seems to be much more non-bloody now. Mostly clean and the traces of murder now wiped out. But the place still held the impression of it in Venice's view. 

The fence of the dock was broken, a bit of the mesh of it dangling in the air. Venice touched it and walked till the end of the dock, tracing the mesh. There, Venice saw an indent on the floor of the dock. That place was dented to, the wood, slightly chipped off. Venice knelt down and touched it, tilting her head. 

A teenage girl, a couple of years younger than Venice came running down the dock, screaming Grace's and Charles' names making the two adults who were talking there to look at her. The girl was sobbing and wailing loudly and the two of them immediately ran towards her.

"Clair, what's wrong?" Grace said with a concerned frowned etched on her face while Clair threw herself at Grace and cried into her arms.

Grace hugged the girl comfortingly, rubbing the girls back.

"Grandpa.. Ben" Clair sobbed.

"What happened to them, child?" Charles asked. 

Suddenly, out of nowhere, Charles was thrown aside by an invisible force, a couple of feet away from them, knocking him into the fence of the dock, breaking a portion of the fence, the mesh of it dangling while Clair screamed in fear. Charles groaned and slowly stood up while Grace held Clair firmly, looking at their surroundings. 

Grace started chanting something, but was knocked away from Clair, onto the dock, her head hitting the dock very hard and her whole body landing there with a thud. Grace didn't wake up after that. Charles and Clair immediately rushed towards her, but Charles was knocked off the dock, to the side and just like that, his throat was cut open, he withered and gasped in pain while Clair let out another sob looking at him. 

Clair cried in horror when she looked at the figure, standing on the other end of the dock. The figure raised it's hand and Clair fell down and she along with Grace dragged towards the figure, with Grace's figure leaving a bloody trail on the dock, from her head. Clair kept clawing on the dock to stop herself, but the force pulling her was too strong. As soon as she was near the figure, Clair let out a loud scream of agony, which was what woke Venice up that night, at the first place.

Venice gasped, breaking out of the trance. Her eyes teary with a couple of them falling down her eyes, startling the remaining three. She fell back on her butt with her head in her hands while all of them kept asking her what happened. She then looked up at Nick who was standing right beside her.

"We have to find grandma and the other girl- Clair."

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Emma rushed towards the attic that was Venice's room at her parents' house while Venice set up a map of Beacon Hills on the study table that she dragged into the middle of the room while Nick held Grace's necklace, tracing it with his fingers.

"Your grandmother is a leader of a coven" Nick said, making Venice look at him.

He held the necklace up, the one she brought so that it could help her locate Grace.

"These are not just some random necklace. These kind are owned by the leaders of their covens" Nick told her.

"Well, I'd love to learn more about the spooky witchy stuff from you, Nick. But later. We gotta focus on finding Grandma and Clair" Venice said.