Fiona Frost: Order of the Black Moon

Vol
2

Dr. Bon Blossman

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Dr. Bon Blossman
Dallas
, Texas
USA

www.fionafrost.com

The characters and events portrayed in this novel are
fictitious
.
Any similarity to real persons, alive or dead, is coincidental
and not intended by the author.

Blossman, Bon, 1970—

Fiona Frost:
Order of the Black Moon
/ by Dr. Bon Blossman

Summary:
Teen vampire cult members
from Godley Grove
are t
he primary suspects in a brutal
ritualistic murder deep in the
abyss
of
a c
ave.

ISBN: 978-0-9850363-6-2

[1. Crime- Fiction.
2. Mystery – Fiction
.
3. High Schools – Fiction. 4. Murder – Fiction.
5. Forensic Science – Fiction. 6. Vampires – Fiction
.
]

For Ella, Lauren and Madison.

A
blind eye
avoids swift judgment
.

I wish to thank all of my wonderful fans whose
continued
support has kept my writing alive, my mind creative
,
and my soul enlightened.

I appreciate each one of you.

A special thanks to Sylvia and Jason for your help in the final stages of the production of this book.
You guys are the best.

I wish to thank my husband Jason for being who he is
—
my love, my soul mate, my everything.

Another dead body, another killer
. My father was the district attorney
of Godley Grove, Texas,
and
while working
homicide
cases
,
he
rarely
filled
his seat
at the family dinner table
.
Fortunately, h
e
hadn’t missed too many dinners in my seventeen years.
I feared this was about to change.
Th
e
wholesome
town
that had
nurtured
me during my childhood
was
blackening
at
an alarming
pace
.

As butterflies
ravaged
my stomach
, I
addressed
my team
, trying to sort through the chaos in my head
.

“
There’s been another murder,
”
I said
in a grim tone.

The curious
faces
before me
melted into
morbid
masks of dread
.
Maddie cupped her mouth
, fear washing over her face.
Wolfe
inhaled
a slow breath
, staring
unseeingly at the ground
.
Lauren and Willow, the inseparable duo, engaged in a
private
whisper with widened eyes.

Standing on my
toes
, I caught sight of
t
he top of Carden’s blonde
head
—a
s usual, he
sat
at the back of the lab
,
head down, avoiding
eye contact.
A brilliant mind
, but I worried if he would be mentally strong enough to take over
the program
once
the rest of us
graduated
in
May. Holding up a hand to grab everybody’s full attention, I cleared my throat.

“The murde
r occurred in Arles Cave
.
”

Willow snapped her
tiny
fingers
.

“That doesn’t surprise me.
Criminals
hang out there
;
I’m pretty sure
.
I live two blocks away
;
the cave
shouldn’t be in the
city.
I told my moth
er she should bring
the issue
up at
the
city council
meetings
and suggest
to get rid of
the atrocity
and fill it
in
with dirt
.
”

She
sarcastically flipped her caramel locks off her shoulder
and surveyed the
team members
to see if anybody agreed with her stance
.

“I agree,” Lauren
said in a raspy tone.

I wasn’t a bit surprised—
they
shared a brain.

Maddie’s
pout
ed
lips
stretched into a humorless sneer as s
he
broodingly
gazed
at
the inseparable duo
.

“Willow,
the cave’s
a landmark.
They should
preserve
it
, if anything
. Have
you
been
inside?
There
’s
a
room
in there—
so
awesome
,
full of crystals
,
”
she said
,
eyes
focusing
on
Willow
with a slight intensity before her expression turned playful
.
“Smells a little funny, though.”

W
olfe
slid
from his lab stool
, landing on the balls of his feet.
He
scanned
t
he group to ensure he had the floor.

“I’ve b
een in
that cave
before
.
In the back
, t
here’s this
tunnel you
crawl
through to get to
these
stairs that
go down
to a creep
y
room
. T
h
e
tunnel
’s so narrow;
I almost
p
ass
ed
out
when I went in there.
”

He
gazed at me with a
charming
grin. I couldn’t help but
counter
with a
huge
smile
. M
or
e than
a
distractingly
handsome face
,
I admi
red hi
m for his intelligence and
charismatic personality.
H
is piercing
,
gray
eyes
possessed the
magnetism
of a black hole
, and each time I gazed
into them
,
I
lost time..
.
or at least it felt
that way.
Unlike the other
handsome boys
at school,
Wolfe Nero
didn’t
know he was
flawless
,
which
made him even more
irresistible.

Things had turned a
bit awkward between us after he
had
asked me to the prom.
However, I remained clueless if
he was
serious
about
the invitation
—he had a thing for jokes.
I had to jerk my head away to avoid an awkward stare.

“
My father’s
warned
me
to stay away
—
many cases
he
’s
prosecut
ed
have
involved
something
that
happened there
. However,
I
disagree with you
, Willow
.
I’m with Maddie—the cave’s
a
Godley Grove
landmark
, but I do think the police
should
monitor
it
more often.
”

Wolfe tapped on the l
ab counter to
grab
my attention as he slid back down onto his lab stool.

“
Fiona, I need to add something to defend what I said before about almost passing out in
the
cave
.
I
went
in there
on a dare back in elementary school
and have not been back since
.
I would
n’t
be
scared
of
the tunnel
today,
”
he said, smiling
as he caught
everybod
y’s reaction.

Laughter
filled
the lab
.
Always one to
break the tension
, he flashed everybody a warm grin, and
I
fought
to refocus.

“I didn’t think you’d
still be scared
, Wolfe,” I added
as M
addie
shot
a
good-humored
glare
in my direction
.

My best friend
sensed I had a
crush on
him, even though I refused to admit it.

“Can we get on with the details, Fiona
?
”
she
inquired, a
frisky
irritation g
rowing
in
her
tone
as she spoke
.

I nodded
with a smile
,
and s
he countered with a
n animated
grin.

“Yes
,
Detective Chase said this murder
was gruesome.
The victim had
gaping
chest wounds
made
with
a
long
sword.
They believe a
vampire
group
from
our school
is
involved.”

“What
!
Those
G
oth freaks are murdering people now
?
”
L
auren
shrieked, shaking
her head.

Willow
squeezed her lips together
in disgust
.

“Figures!
”
she
scoffed.

“Wait a minute, people.
Do you
even
know
any
body in that
group
?
”
I
inquired
sternly
as a chill tingled along my spine.

I
maintained a strong disdain for
confrontation.

“You mean
cult,
don’t you Fiona
?
”
Lauren snapped,
chewing her gum as if she were angry at it.

“I don’t know enough about them
,
and I hesitate to judge
people
based upon appearance.
I wouldn’t call them a
cult,
but
more like
wannabe vampires
.
In the end, t
hey’re
just
kids
like us
!
Y
ou’ve all heard the saying—”

“We know
…don’t
judge a book by
its
cover,” Lauren
interrupted before pausing to
gather
her
bushy
locks
from
under
her shirt collar
and adjust her cap
.
“
On a
possibly
related
note, d
id you hear about
the
blood that was
stolen
from the blood bank
over
on Dearing Drive?”

“I think I read about that in the paper yesterday
.
What does
it
have to do with anything
?
”
I asked abruptly.

“I think what
she’s
trying to say is nobody
normal
would want to steal blood.
Wh
at kind of people would steal
human blood?
Vampires,
” Willow huffed.

A lump formed in the back of my throat, constricting.
This way of thinking made me
angry
.
I
despised stereotypes and
firmly believed in
the premise of
innocent until proven guilty.

“Get
real, guys,” I said in disgust, flickering an icy glare
between
the
two members of the
inseparable duo.

“
Let’s
hear Fiona out before we start
convicting
kids at our school
of crimes without evidence.
Innocent until proven guilty
,"
Wolfe defended,
the corners of his mouth slightly upturning.