Crawler

Chapter 36

"What happened to your face?!" Alexander yelled as he grabbed my chin and turned my head to examine me.

"I got my ass handed to me by the guy that killed my family." I said.

He let go of my face. "By who?"

"The man that killed my family almost killed me. He's hunting us down Alex. He told me himself." I told him.

Alexander breathed and a shaky hand ran through his brown hair.

"What's wrong?" Christa asked as she walked toward us.

"I'll tell you later...Can you get them cleaned up please?...There's going to be a meeting right after you guys get looked at." Alexander said.

Christa only nodded and took my hand and led me up the stairs.

"Boys you come also." Christa said without turning around.

We went into the first room closest to the staircase and it looked like the room I was in last time I was here.

"Take a seat Jamie." Christa said and I sat on the cold table causing goosebumps to rise.

Ian and Harry came in and stood in different corners arms crossed watching me.

Christa came to me with cotton swabs and a wash rag and a bowl of water which I assumed was warm.

She dipped the wash rag in the water and began washing my wounds.

She pressed the wash rag against my wound on my nose and I hissed due to the pain.

"Sorry love." She said quietly.

I only nodded a little as she kept cleaning the blood away. She got the cotton swabs and got in the creases of my nose and then she wiped my mouth with the rag.

"Okay. Almost done." She said.

She closed her eyes and twirled her finger in front of my face and then she opened her eyes and handed me mirror and it looked like I didn't even get my ass kicked.

I just looked exhausted which I was.

"Harry. Come here." Christa said.

I got up and placed the mirror down on the bed and waited for Harry to be fixed up.

She cleaned the blood away and made any new scars disappear.

"Come on." Alexander surprised us as he stood by the open door.

I walked out and so did the others and we followed Alexander to where the meeting would be help which was of course the library.

When we made it there everyone was sitting down but they didn't greet us. They all were looking down or rubbing their tired eyes.

I took a seat next to Liam and he gave me a weak smile and I was going to ask what was wrong but Alexander talking.

"As you all know...Chloe is dead but the body was left on our porch this morning..." Alexander said and Christa made her way to stand beside him as he spoke.

"Wait-"

"It wasn't put out that she was dead because obviously they haven't found the body yet..I'm working on seeing what Christa can do to heal the body and possibly bring her back to how she was before...You guys have got to be careful and we will have meeting here and we will be investigating who did this." Alex sighed before looking down at his hands and stretching out his fingers.

"Alex..We-"

"Kids. When your parents were killed and you were left under my care I made sure that you guys were protected and I loved every single one of you like my kids but..There are some things you guys don't know about that I should've told you." He said and Christa put a hand on her shoulder.