Beyond: Snillotia Trilogy Book One

by Donna Wagner

He took out his cuffs and walked towards Jason. “Son, you’re under arrest. You have the right to remain silent-”

  Jason didn’t even let him finish reading him his rights. “But she has a blue light! It exploded everything. It killed my father!”

  Officer Abbot looked over at Tim, Anna, and her parents. “Don’t worry, folks. He’ll get the help he needs!”

  He motioned to another officer to take Jason away. They could hear the other officer again, trying to tell Jason his rights, over his rambling as they left the room.

  After asking a few more questions, Officer Abbot said, “Okay. We have enough for now. Go home. You’ve all been through an ordeal. Rest. We’ll send an officer to your house tomorrow to take a formal statement.”

  He motioned to another officer who led them back outside and to a waiting police car. The drive home was quick. Tim vaguely wondered where Adam’s car was but figured it could wait until tomorrow.

  An hour after they arrived home, Tim had showered and was finally able to relax in bed. Everyone was happy that their ordeal was over, and no one could still believe Jason was the one responsible. He heard a soft tapping on his door. Can I come in?

  Sure.

  Anna opened the door and walked in, stopping at the foot of his bed. “I know. It’s okay,” he said, moving over to make room for her. He didn’t know what was happening between them, but that could be something figured out later as well. They had had an eventful few day and neither one of them wanted to be alone. The silence stretched and Tim felt the need to break it. “So, uh, school Monday should be interesting.”

  Anna sat up next to him and exclaimed, “School! I forgot about school. Everyone will be talking about this and I haven’t done any homework yet this weekend. Not to mention the English assignment. We only have a week and a half left! We still have to find out what’s on that laptop and Eimaj’s letters! I almost forgot about them! We have to read them all and see what else we can learn!”

  Tim pulled Anna back until she was laying down again. “Calm down. There’s still so much we don’t know, but I think we have time. Whatever happens, though, I know we’ll be okay in the end, as long as we’re together.”

  Anna smiled and snuggled in the crook of his arm with her head resting on his shoulder. She didn’t say a word. The silence filled the room again, but this time, they both drifted to sleep, comforted by each other’s presence. Yes. They knew as long as they were together, they’d be okay.

  Epilogue

  Candlelight flickered, eerily, making shadows bounce off the filled bookshelves lining the walls. Randomly, the titles of the books flashed as the light hit them one by one. Intimidation, Invigorate, Invisible. The books, fourteen bound and one still free, told a very interesting story; as did the many, many pages of writing, first scrawled in a childish script, which had evolved over the years to a beautiful penmanship.

  Ronnoc looked at his shelves, lovingly. He gently caressed the spine of the book closest to him. He was quite thankful his insolent nephew had brought these books to this world and so carelessly left them for him to find. He now knew quite a secret. A secret hidden in those beautiful pages, displayed, plain as day, under the boy’s nose when he barged in a few hours ago, taunting him with his own son.

  Ronnoc smiled to himself. The boy wasn’t as clever as he thought he was. He had given away their location, not that there was anything Ronnoc could do about it. But his son would return. His son was his own secret weapon and there was nothing the boy could do to stop him. The time would soon come when Ronnoc would hold all the power and Tim Tollins would be an insignificant blip in history.

  About The Author

  Donna Wagner

  Donna Wagner grew up devouring any book she could find. After reading so many stories, she decided to give writing one a try. Her debut novel is Beyond, which is the first of a planned trilogy for young adult readers.

  She has a BA in English from Temple University and still resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with her family, which includes her three pugs, Mystic, Tazz, and Tug.

  Betrayed

  Snillotia Trilogy Book Two

  Coming Soon!