Storm (Blood Haze: Book Two) A Paranormal Romance by Tara Shuler Page A

through this because he wanted
    to save you,” Jamie said. “He wouldn’t want you
    in harm’s way. Otherwise, all of his sacrifice
    would have been for nothing.”
    “No!” I argued. “We have to do something!”
    “Send him my email address,” Jamie said.
    “You can’t risk a Viewer finding our location
    through your eyes, but they can’t see through
    mine.”
    “Absolutely not,” Kai demanded. “If you tell
    him our location and they catch him, they could
    read his email on his computer and find us. He
    wouldn’t want you at risk, and I certainly don’t,
    either.”
    “We have to do something !” I screamed.
    “Lower your voice,” Kai implored. “People
    will get suspicious.”
    I took a deep breath. “We can’t just leave him
    on his own.”
    “Wait,” Jamie said. “I won’t tell him where
    we are. Tell him to email me. He has my
    address.”
    “What are you…” Kai started to say.
    “ Trust me ,” Jamie emphasized.
    “I do trust you,” I said to Jamie.
    I fired off a quick email.
    Max,
    Email Jamie. She said you have her address.
    She’ll take care of this. We’re trusting her to
    help you out without giving away our location.
    Please be safe, and hopefully we’ll see you
    very soon.
    Alice
    I clicked the send button and waited. A
    moment later, I got another email.
    Alice,
    I’ll send her an email right now, and then I
    have to get back on the road.
    I won’t do anything to put you at risk. I
    promise you. Your safety is the most important
    thing in the world to me.
    Love,
    Max
    I heard Kai’s teeth grinding together once
    again. He wasn’t thrilled that I was so worried
    about Max, and he especially didn’t like reading
    Max talking about how my safety was the most
    important thing to him.
    I sent Max another email.
    Max,
    I’m going to be right by my computer all
    day. I’m here if you need anything at all.
    Alice
    I clicked the send button and turned the
    volume all the way up so I would hear whenever
    I received an email.
    Jamie went back to her room to work on a
    plan with Max, and I lied down on the bed and
    stared at the ceiling. I felt so helpless. Max had
    risked everything to protect us – to protect me –
    and all I could do was sit around and wait.
    I decided to call my mother and see how she
    and Will were doing.
    “Hello?” my mother answered.
    “Mother?” I greeted. “How are you and Will
    doing?”
    “We’re fine,” she said. “How are you?”
    “I’m worried sick,” I told her.
    “Jamie told us about Max,” she said quietly.
    “What should I do?” I pleaded. “Tell me what
    to do.”
    “All you can do is wait,” she said honestly.
    “Jamie will take care of things.”
    “She’s done more than enough,” I said. “I hate
    to keep having her do everything for us.”
    “She wants to,” Mother said.
    “She seems so happy these days,” I
    commented. “Do you think it’s actually making
    her happy to be going through all of this?”
    Mother laughed. “No, I don’t think that’s it.”
    “Then what?”
    “It’s not really my place to say.”
    “Not your place to say what?”
    “Alice…”
    I thought for a moment, and then it hit me.
    Jamie and my brother!
    “Are she and Will…” I gasped excitedly.
    “I think so,” my mother answered. “I see the
    way they’ve been looking at each other.”
    “Wow,” I breathed. “I had no idea. I’ve been
    so absorbed in my own problems I never even
    noticed.”
    “I don’t think they’re really expecting anyone
    to know,” she said. “So let’s not say anything to
    them until they’re ready to tell us themselves.”
    “Okay,” I agreed.
    “Alice?” she said gently.
    “Yes, Mother?”
    “Max will be okay. Jamie’s a smart girl. She’ll
    take care of him.”
    “I know,” I agreed. “I just hope she isn’t too
    late. And I wish there was something I could do
    to help him the way he’s helped us.”
    “He understands,” Mother said, trying to
    comfort me. “He