Chapter 74: The Librarian
"A book?"
"Yes," I unlocked the door, taking out the book I hoped to return. It has already stayed longer than I expected due to my incident, let’s hope she doesn’t charge
cash for this.
"Founding Juneau?" Owen asked, gazing upon the cover strangely.
"Yes, back when everyone was focused on keeping the truth from , I thought I might find answers from it" I shrugged, walking ahead but he followed.
"Where did you get it from?!" he suddenly demanded.
"A bookstore from around here, I had no idea I passed my aunt’s shop when I did,"
"Emma"
I faced him.
"Founding Juneau was not supposed to reach you"
I frowned slightly.
"What do you an?"
"Like you said you got this book when you knew nothing, the librarian wasn’t supposed to give this to you, my parents own most of the bookstores here and I know that"
I paused, that was alarming, no wonder when Dace saw it, he said he was surprised I was given this book.
"But it’s just history here, nothing unusual," I shrugged.
He sighed. "Co on show
the bookstore"
~
Owen seed alard by this, I an why should he? Because of the fact I was given the book? That aside, it seems sothing else was bugging him, he has been asking all sorts of questions.
"This is the place," I said as we ca to a stop at the bookstore, it looked the sa so it was definitely not hard to recognize. For a minute there with Owen’s demands and questions I thought I might have hallucinated the shop, well thank god it was here then, or else that would have been super weird, but definitely not weirder than what I have seen in the past weeks.
Owen walked in first and the bells made a noise, what’s with all the shops in this town and bells?
"Hiya Owen, nice to see you" a tan-skinned man around the age of maybe 40 or more said at the counter.
"Hey Tom"
"What can I do for you?" he asked.
"Emma, this is Tom, he’s the librarian for this bookstore"
"Okay," I nodded. "Seems like shifts happen here"
"Shifts?"
I faced Owen.
"I told you, a lady attended to , not..." I looked back at Tom who gave
a smile. "Tom"
"A lady?" He intoned. "The only lady here is my wife, but she’s off duty today"
"No she’s not old, she’s young and beautiful," I said certainly, but it felt like I was telling a lie due to the look he gave , okay what was going on?
"Emma"
I faced Owen with a confused gaze.
"Tom and his wife are the only ones who have access to this bookstore"
"What?" I said in a faint tone.
"Whoever you t here was not supposed to be here"
"No, I’m certain... she gave
this book" I showed Tom who now had wide eyes when he saw the book I held. He quickly snatched the book away from , making
gasp at his sudden harsh behavior.
"How did you get your hands on this?!" he demands. "It’s not for you!"
"Easy Tom, I know Emma, and she’s telling the truth," Owen said to him, probably trying to calm him down, but this Tom didn’t seem to have, his ardent gaze pinned
down and I was shaken by this, I only just took a book, not killed a person.
"It’s just an ordinary book" I muttered, shaking slightly.
Owen placed a hand on my shoulder. "Hey, it’s okay"
"No it’s not, soone attended to , she spoke as if she knew , knew my aunt and, and... and I... I"
"Hey hey," he rested both hands on my shoulder blades. "I believe you, okay?"
"If it wasn’t Tom’s wife then who was that?"
I noticed Owen’s eyes hardened. "I will find out"
~
"There must be an explanation for this" Vanessa spoke up, we were back at the shop and I was still trying to wrap my head around what happened.
"I talked with Tom, his wife was on duty that day and she never leaves the shop," Owen said but then he rubbed his forehead. "Except when she had to pick up her dog at the vet"
"That must be it"
"Every Thursday"
"I went there Thursday, ’’ I said in a faint tone. "If you guys know sothing or anything, do not leave
out of it" I spoke up.
"We have a theory," Carly said and I faced her.
"Vampires"
I paled.
"Yes, what Carly said, Vampires have the tendency of taking a human form when they drink them dry"
I think my insides turned to ice at the re ntion of that, the chill was so deep that it got
shivering.
"Emma dear, give us the description of the lady that attended to you," Vanessa said. And I explained her looks as best as I could rember, she took the description on her phone, maybe she wanted to send it to soone to get a search.
But sothing was still bugging , I knew that look Tom gave , it wasn’t just about soone invading his shop but about the BOOK, like I wasn’t supposed to touch it or sothing like I did a cri, I knew deeply there was nothing in there, or it wasn’t just history, maybe sothing else.
"That book" I spoke to Carly as Owen and Vanessa were on sothing. "Why is everyone freaking out that I had it?"
She seed hesitant to say sothing, but I gave her a pleading look, I wasn’t set aside in this anymore and she know that, I really want her to say sothing, whatever it was I could take it, I was sure it wasn’t as daring as getting tricked by a vampire or whatever that lady was.
I was sowhat relieved when she opened her mouth to speak.
"Well in a bookstore such as the one you visited, Owen’s parents own most of them" she rubbed her hands on her knees, still looking hesitant.
"And?" I urged.
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