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“I didn’t cry,” Kylie said.
“They’ll never understand,” Della said.
“You don’t know that for sure,” Kylie said. “What did he say to you?”
“He didn’t say anything.” Della told them about the Chis’ murder and how her father looked at her as if she’d done it. Then she told them what her mom had said about him being hospitalized after his sister’s murder. “Why would he need to be hospitalized if he hadn’t seen anything?”
Miranda made a face. “Because his sister was killed. I mean, that could be upsetting by itself.”
“Maybe,” Della admitted. “But if you could have seen how he looked at me. He’s afraid I’m going to kill him or my mother and sister.” Tears stung her sinuses and a lump formed in the back of her throat.
“So are you going to confront him?” Miranda asked.
“And say what?” Della snapped. “Hey, so you know I’m a monster?”
“You’re not a monster,” Kylie said.
“Right.” Della swallowed down a lump of pain. “But I am the one who brought this whole court case down on him. What if they convict him? He could get the death penalty.”
“Don’t think the worst,” Kylie said. After a second she asked, “Did Chase turn your uncle in?”
“No, he says he doesn’t know where he is. But he also says my uncle didn’t kill my aunt. That it was another vampire.”
“Do you believe it?” Miranda asked.
“I don’t know what I believe anymore,” Della sighed. “Tomorrow we’re getting my dad’s case file from the DA.”
Kylie turned the soda can in her hand. “Maybe you’ll find out what he told the police and then you’ll know for sure if he saw the murder.”
“Yeah.” Della looked again at her phone, and when she glanced up both Miranda and Kylie were studying her.
“Who are you dying to hear from?” the witch asked.
“I’m not. I … Oh, hell!” She pulled in a pound of oxygen. “Chase is doing something stupid.” She told them about Chase’s visit to the prison.
“And you’re not going to call Burnett?” Kylie asked.
“No, because if the situation were reversed and he told Burnett on me, I’d never tell him anything again. He’s working my father’s case. I need him to trust me.”
“But if something happens to him, you’ll never forgive yourself,” Kylie said.
“Do you see what a position he’s put me in?” Della snapped.
“Well, maybe you told me and then I told Burnett. It wouldn’t be your fault.”
“He’d still be pissed.”
“But at me more than you,” Kylie said.
Della looked at her phone for the hundredth time. “Give him thirty more minutes. If he doesn’t contact me, then you can call Burnett.”
Miranda turned her Coke in her hands. “Have you seen Steve?”
Della frowned. “Yeah. He heard about me going to identify some bodies and he came to see if I needed to talk about it.”
“That’s sweet,” Miranda said.
“Yeah,” Della said. “Steve’s sweet.”
