White Rose - Gao Yang (best fiction novels to read .txt) 📗

"How would you know?" Jack didn't pay attention but he heard Bryce talking to him. Jack continued to look for a marking on the bow: her initials. He kept looking and looking and then he found the markings.

"This is how I know." He showed Bryce the initial markings.

"So? It's just a marking." Jack groaned and rolled his eyes.

"Yeah, it's just a marking but they're initials." Bryce looked at the markings again. "They're Isabella's initials." Bryce looked at the initial markings and it had the two letters of her name: IV. "This bow still looks pretty new and it's in the cottage." Bryce shook his head and just thought that someone might've stolen it and put it as a decoy or something.

"Jack, this could mean--" Bryce was starting to gain hope of finding her again. Jack scoffed as he looked around the cottage that was old and starting to fall apart.

"Look at the cottage, Bryce! It's old and abandoned. Our family hasn't been to the cottage for years. No one knows about this cottage but few, which made rumors go around in the village. Colin didn't even know about this cottage. The last time we came back here, our parents didn't want us coming back to the cottage because of how dangerous the woods were." Jack walked back and forth. "They knew how dangerous the woods were, with all the werewolves and vampires lurking every night and every day, just waiting for an opportunity to ambush."

Alison then walked into their conversation. "Jack, I think Bryce already gets the idea." She said as she placed her hand on his shoulder.

"No, Alison. He needs to know what horror and terror we had to face as children."

"Jack!" She pulled him back and looked at him. "What's wrong with you?" She let him go and walked up to Bryce and grabbed the bow from him. "But Bryce, Jack is right." Bryce lowered his head and looked at the broken floor. "Whether Isabella came back here or not, we don't know for sure." She looked at Jack. "But all we can be sure is that she may be alive and out in the woods alone by herself. She's probably even wondering about everyone as well; Mother, Father, you, me, Bryce, Percy, Charles, and Colin." Jack and Bryce looked at Alison and she nodded. "You may think that there's no hope of finding her no more, but remember that there's always hope."

Little did know, there was a stranger listening to their conversations inside the cottage. The stranger listened to every word of it but were also touched by them. Then the stranger walked away from the cottage as they cried on their own way, heartbroken.

"Anyone could've done anything to find you."

Publication Date: 06-29-2016

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