Moon Phased: The Triple Claim novel Chapter 105

Chapter 57-1

Raven’s POV

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“What offer?” Mazie asked with a suspicious look on her face, but I knew that I couldn’t say a word

to her about what Mrs. Jacobs just offered me, because Mazie would try and talk me out of

leaving, if I decided to take Mrs. Jacobs up on her offer.

“It’s nothing. It’s just about school and my academics.” I told Mazie, being able to keep a straight

face, because I wasn’t completely lying to her, but Mazie’s head turned to watch Mrs. Jacobs,

disappearing from our sight, leading me to believe she wasn’t buying it.

“I trust that woman just about as much as I trust her daughter, and that isn’t saying much.” Mazie

says under her breath, making me now question Mrs. Jacobs‘ true intentions, with the mentioning

of Jessica, gave me something else to think about when considering her offer.

But right now, I needed to change the subject before Mazie continued to question me about it. “So,

what are you doing here?” I asked Mazie, drawing her attention from Mrs. Jacobs, back to me.

Turning back around, Mazie begins to stumble for words, as if I had busted her in the act of doing

something, while her eyes look past me to the headstone behind me, before she finally says, “I

came here to pay my respects to my Aunt Zara.”

Turning to look at the headstone behind me, I said to her, “I was wondering if she was a relative of yours. She was so young when she passed. May I ask what happened?”

Mazie steps to my side as she shakes her head slowly, while we both stare at Zara’s headstone,

before she says, “I asked when I was a child what happened to her, and my father told me to never

speak of it again. I can still remember the pain in his eyes, so I never questioned him again about it, but I have always wondered what happened to her.”

She then took a step back before she said, “To all of them. The elders of the town won’t speak a

word of it.”

“Actually, Mrs. Jacobs just did.”

Mazie’s eyes widened as she turned to look at me, before she asked, “What did she say to you?”

“She claims that her brother was murdered.”

Mazie’s eyebrows furrowed, as she looked away from me at Mrs. Jacob’s brother’s grave and then to her Aunt Zara’s grave, before she says, “That doesn’t make any sense. There’s nothing in the history of our town stating about a string of murders, let alone one. Trust me, I would know about it, working at the Diner. It’s like the gossip capital of this town.”

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“But you said yourself, that the elders don’t speak of it.”

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Mazie then turned her head, looking at all the other headstones beside her aunt’s grave with

similar dates of deaths, all around the same age. She remained silent as if she was thinking, and I

wondered if she was starting to believe that it could be possible, but when she turned back to me,

she had a suspicious look on her face.

At first, I thought that she had maybe figured something out, but as she asked me, “Raven, what

are you doing here?” I realized that her mind had gone in a different direction.

“I…” I began to say, now stumbling over my own words, busted by my best friend, wanting to tell her the truth, but knowing how crazy I would sound once again. So instead, I stuck to the story that I had told Mrs. Jacobs. “I came here to pay respects to my great–grandparents, but Mrs. Jacobs informed me that my people aren’t buried here. I guess I’m going to have to ask my grandmother where they are buried, since this is the only cemetery on the map at the library.”

Mazie’s face fell as she looked at me, before she turned her head away from me, making me

wonder if she wasn’t buying my story, especially when she says, “That’s not true, or at least I think it’s not true.” Making me believe that she had busted me in my lie, but then she says, “Follow me.”

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