2 Empath by Edie Claire

Author:Edie Claire
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: ghost, family secrets, surfing, humor, romantic suspense, YA romance, family reunions, Hawaii, romance, love, YA paranormal, teens, contemporary romance
Publisher: Edie Claire
Published: 2013-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

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I stared at my phone with gritted teeth. Its silence was killing me.

I had texted Zane as soon as the plane landed, and I still hadn’t heard a thing. He didn’t know exactly when we were arriving, true. I had been deliberately vague about that because I wanted the chance to surprise him. But the closer the big day became, the colder my feet had gotten. Could I even find where he was living? Did I plan to just stalk the beach until he appeared? And most frightening of all — would he really appreciate a drop-in visitor, when he’d so obviously discouraged me from visiting him in California?

“It was in a box labeled ‘Kitchen,’” my mother said, her voice harassed. “You’d think that would be plain enough. Unless they lost it altogether…” A lock of her hair, curly and unruly as mine, though much shorter, had escaped from her hairband and was hanging in front of her eyes. “It must be around here somewhere. If not, we’ll have to shop tonight. I can’t manage without the utensils and the cookware!”

I rose quickly from the kitchen floor, where I had been helping to unpack the dishes. “Shop tonight” was not a phrase I wanted to hear. We had only the one car still, and I had to get to the North Shore. Losing my wheels was not acceptable. “I’m sure it’s here somewhere,” I said with conviction, heading for the stack of boxes in the family room. “I’ll find it.”

My dad, who had been carefully placing his favorite books on his favorite bookshelf, also stopped what he was doing and joined in the search. He surveyed my efforts with a grin. “Got other plans for the evening, I take it?”

I grinned back, though I was pretty sure that the plans he was imagining involved different personnel than my own. My dad rarely acknowledged my situation with Zane, which was annoying; but I knew it was no reflection on Zane as a person. Even if the perfect son-in-law (a.k.a., Matt) were not in the picture, the unseen surfer boy’s existence fell into the same can’t-deal-with-it nether zone as my seeing the shadows. Out of sight, out of mind.

But that was about to change.

“I’m hoping to take the car and drive to the North Shore to see Zane,” I admitted. I looked back at my phone. “But I’m not sure when, yet.”

My father’s face fell. He harrumphed. “Well, it can’t be too late. You’ll be jetlagged, you know. Midnight here will feel like three in the morning.”

“I know, Dad,” I said automatically, then realized that wasn’t true. I hadn’t even considered the time change. What did it matter? I was seeing Zane today, and nothing was stopping me.

I stared at my silent phone again, then shifted another box to read its label. Where was the stupid kitchen one my mom wanted?

“Have you heard from him since we landed?” my mother asked, poking her head out from the kitchen.

I felt a sinking feeling in my gut.

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