First Bite (Beacon Hills Chronicles Book 1)

4: Nordic Blue Monkshood

Playlist:

Bittersweet ~ Within Temptation

Whisper ~ Evanescence

I still couldn't believe that Derek had killed Meyers. What reason would Derek have to kill him? It didn't make any sense. Anna was still doing homework when I checked in on her.

"What are you still doing up?" I asked.

"Because my chem teacher is Satan reincarnate and gives us a million pages of homework."

"His name doesn't happen to be Mr. Harris, does it?"

"How did you know?"

"Because I think enjoys making everyone's lives hell. I had him for chem, too."

"I went and visited Peter today."

"You've been visiting Peter a lot."

"Did Jennifer tell you?"

"Yes, she's glad to see that he has visitors. She thinks it might help bring him back."

"He had another visitor today."

"Oh?"

"Yeah. He was real quiet though. He didn't stay very long after I got there."

I had a guess on who that could have been. I sat on the bed. "Dark hair, olive eyes, perfect jawline, sculpted torso, always has a scowl on his face?" Don't look at me like that. Derek seems to like wearing tight shirts. It's not hard to imagine what that torso of his looks like.

Anna turned and looked at me. "How did you...?"

"That's Peter's nephew, Derek."

"Laura's brother."

"Yeah." I got up and went and leaned over the desk. "Need any help?"

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 After school the next day, I went to pick Anna up from school. She seemed to be in a great mood today.

"I aced my history test," she said proudly as she buckled her seatbelt.

"That's great!"

"I think I got the highest — Oh, my God!"

A horn honked and I looked up. To see Derek on the ground in front of a steel blue Jeep.

"What the hell?" I said.

"Did Stiles just hit him?"

Scott ran over to him as Stiles got out of his Jeep. I started to unbuckle my seatbelt to go see if he was alright, then stopped. It was Derek. He was probably looking for Scott and probably just walked out in front of Stiles. Although, I really couldn't see Derek doing that. But he wanted me to stay out of whatever he was doing. Derek sat up after Scott knelt next to him.

"Stay here." I got out of my car and took several steps towards them.

Derek suddenly started wincing and Scott looked around. I knew something was wrong then.

"What are you doing? Stop that!"

"That's what I'm trying to tell you. I can't!"

"Derek, get up."

I reached them at this point. Cars had been honking the entire time. Derek was breathing heavily. I knelt next to him and saw that his eyes were glowing. Not a good sign.