The Kelpie's Curse (book #1 in the Kelpie's Entrapment trilogy)

Day 5 Pt. 3

As they walked back to the house well after noon, Renestrae couldn't help but feel a little bad. Maybe she shouldn't have been so harsh with their training, but then again desperate times called for desperate measures. She would think that people dying left and right around here would be considered desperate times.

    However her guilt at pushing them a little harder than she should have quickly died away as she caught sight of a pacing man with black hair and a cherry 1957 Chevrolet Bel-Air in the driveway.

    Was it bad to admit that her first thought at seeing them had nothing to do with the man and everything to do with wanting to touch that car?

    It probably was, so best not to mention that.

    "Looks like you have a visitor, Ren." Kaloria teased, nudging her shoulder as she did so.

    "Are you sure going out with him is a good idea?" Evelyn asked.

    "Why wouldn't it be?" Kaloria  asked before Renestrae could open her mouth to respond.

    "Oh I don't know, maybe because we just got done bow training because there's a killer on the loose. How does she know she can trust him?"

    "I'm sure it's fine. Ren isn't stupid and she's a much better shot than we are."

    "Guys." She tried to interject but she was swiftly ignored.

    "That's not the point and you know it Kali."

    "Guys," she tried again a little louder, but to no avail. Was this how Evelyn felt a couple days ago? Jeez, no wonder she had blown up on them.

    "I just don't see what the big deal is." Kaloria retorted.

    "If  you can't see it then you're delusional!"

    That was it she'd official had enough of the petty squabbling.

    "And you're a mother hen!"

    "GUYS!" Renestrae finally shouted as her patience snapped. "As much fun as all this back and forth bickering is, you might want to tone it down a bit. Otherwise if the nice man with the expensive car is the killer then he knows everything the two of you just said."

    Instantly they looked contrite.

    "The two of you can continue squabbling if you so desire, but I'm going to go over and talk to him before our ticket to more information goes away." She turned on her heel then and walked off.

    The nerve of those two! Like she couldn't hear every word they were saying, like she wasn't even there! It had been bad enough in school where she'd practically been invisible, but she expected more from her two best friends. She expected-

    "Lass!"

    She looked up then and stopped in her tracks, not because of the word but because of the emotion behind it. He sounded worried when because of his pacing she had been expecting agitation.

    "What-"

    Before she could finish her question she found herself in his arms and being twirled around. As he put her down she stared at him in shock, it wasn't that it wasn't nice, it was just unexpected. What the hell was all that about?

    "Och Lass, thank god ye are alright."

    She couldn't help it, she raised a single dark eyebrow at him. "Is there a reason why I wouldn't be?" Of course there were the attacks, but surely the police would have found some kind of evidence, some kind of clue with the number of bodies they had.