Be Light (The Guardian Trilogy) by Schulte Liz

Author:Schulte, Liz [Schulte, Liz]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-12-14T05:00:00+00:00

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The next morning I was not filled with Christmas cheer. I couldn’t believe Holden was ruining my plans. He could have had this panic attack ages ago when I first started planning and would have had time to find a neutral location. Did he do it on purpose? He hadn’t wanted this from the start, I knew that, but I thought he would come around. What on earth set him off?

He woke up before me, if he even came back to bed last night, because his spot was cool to the touch. Just as well. I quickly dressed having decided I couldn’t hang out with him today and keep to my no fighting rule. As I emerged from the bathroom, he was standing in the doorway of the bedroom with a cup of coffee.

“What are you doing?”

“Going to work,” I said slipping my foot into my tennis shoe and tying it.

“You said you were taking the week off.” His face was blank which made me all the more angry.

“That was when I was going to have a fun Christmas.” I sounded petulant which made me cringe. I transported away before he could respond.

I appeared in the main room at the guardian complex. People were milling around the room, but no one greeted me. Most of them looked at me out of the side of their eye and scattered away. I tried not to let my irritation with Holden carry over. Don’t be scary. Christmas and really any holiday wasn’t taken off by guardians. It was our busy time of year. I took off because I could and really wanted this. I only had so many Christmases left with my mom until there wouldn’t be anymore. I wasn’t about to miss another one. I could feel tears prickling in my eyes. I shook my head. I was being selfish. No one here was crying over ruined plans. Maybe I was naïve to have made them in the first place.

“I thought you were taking off?” Quintus’ deep, warm voice came from behind me.

I clenched my jaw and fought to smile. “I changed my mind.”

“Would this have to do with Holden cancelling your party?”

Gah! Seriously, that man was impossible. “He already called you?”

Quintus gave me a sympathetic, dimpled smile. “I hate to take his side—”

“Then don’t,” I snapped. “Let’s not talk about this any further.” I straightened my shoulders. “What’s on the docket for today?”

Quintus clamped his hand down on my shoulder. “You going home and talking to Holden.”

“You can’t—”

“Your head isn’t in this today, but more importantly your heart isn’t. Go home and fix whatever is broken.”

“You know I’m your boss now, right?”

He laughed. “Firefly, go home.”

My phone buzzed in my pocket, but I ignored it. I recalled the address Baker gave me yesterday. No matter how annoyed I was with Holden, I still intended to give him his gift. Holden was getting a family for Christmas and he would damn well like it.

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