A Dangerous Game ~ Kurtz

~ Chapter Seventeen ~

Valencia knew the night would hold consequences, everything with Kurtz always comes with a price. So after the time with Kurtz she slowly made her way home, the tattered card still in her pocket. Kurtz' face had once again clouded her previous thoughts, he made her feel wanted, seen and made her feel things she had never felt before. Maybe that's why she couldn't ask him, maybe that's why now, only after she left, is she thinking back to the recked old bus and the stupid old quest card.

Once again the girl was met with FP jones, Jughead and her brother, all looking rather stressed. Sweet Pea sighed fed up of the young girls disappearing act.
'I tried to call' Jughead said.
'We all did' FP chipped in. Val nodded her head, 'I saw' she replied. Sweet Pea raised his eyebrows waiting for her to elaborate, to ease his worry.
'I went to get more evidence so I turned my phone to silent incase any gargoyles were lurking, the ringtone would have given me away. I tried all their locations; the old bus, ground 0 and that weird building they used to cook in' the girl lied through her teeth. The look on everyone's faces showed they didn't buy her story, knowing they needed more convincing, she pulled out a stash of photos and notes she had managed to pick up when she was last snooping around in hopes of it shutting them up for a while. Seemingly, this did manage to convince them for now as they took the paper from her hands. Shifting from foot to foot she contemplated taking out the card, if she handed it to them that would be them off her back for good, they would trust her again. Only she didn't know the whole truth behind the card, did she want to risk it? she should have told them.

'Why did everyone call anyways? Did something happen?' Valencia tried to take focus off herself.
'I thought you was dead.' Sweet Peas eyes met hers since the first time she walked back into the trailer. She froze.
'What?' She asked.
'We found two bodies last night, we wasn't sure if there would be more.' FP explained. Valencia's mind raced. Why would they think she could be dead? Why did two deaths lead them to believe there could be more. Why- they weren't just dead bodies. Sacrifices. Just as Kurtz had said.
'All sacrifices waiting to be made'. Then it all began to fall into place...

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Jeez it's been a while, I'm not even sure if anyone still reads this book but for the handful of people that still might and are curious to find out what happens next, this is for you. I apologise for how long it has taken since I last updated this book, I started this book before I started college and now I've finished college and I'm working all the time so I kinda forgot about the book with how busy things have been however I would like to take this book further so I hope you will stay for a few more chapters at least :) thank you for the support I've had on this book, I really do appreciate it! This is only a small chapter as it's currently 3am and wanted to get something posted however the next chapter will be much longer and a lot more should be explained!
(also can anyone guess what the quest card might be?👀)