Book 2 Kiss of Frost by Jennifer Estep

Author:Jennifer Estep [Jennifer Estep]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Professor Metis, Nickamedes, and Coach Ajax finished up their hushed talk and left the infirmary, probably to start tracking down the Reaper. Daphne went out with them, so she could let Carson know that I was fine. I didn’t ask the Valkyrie if she was going to talk to Logan—or if the Spartan had even asked her whether I was okay or not. I didn’t want to know if he hadn’t.

Half an hour later, Metis came back into the infirmary and handed me a cell phone, since my own had been swept away by the snow. “Your grandmother, as promised.”

“Thank you,” I said. “And I’m sorry for, well, everything. But mainly for not telling you about the Reaper in the first place. You told me a while back you’d always look out for me, because of your friendship with my mom. I should have trusted you the way she would have.”

Metis looked at me a second, then gave me a curt nod. Her face was still tight with worry, but her green gaze was a little softer than it had been before. She might not like it, but I think Metis understood why I hadn’t told her about the Reaper. I hoped so anyway. I also hoped she could forgive me for keeping my mouth shut—and the other things I planned on doing to discover the Reaper’s real identity, just as soon as she and the Powers That Were let me out of this hospital bed.

The professor stepped back outside and shut the infirmary door behind her, giving me some privacy.

I raised the phone to my ear. “Hi, Grandma.”

“Hi, pumpkin,” Grandma Frost’s voice flooded the line, as warm, soft, and comforting as a hug. “Are you okay?”

“I’m fine. Really, I am.”

“Tell me what happened.”

I drew in a breath and told Grandma everything that had happened since I’d left her house on Wednesday afternoon. When I finished, she stayed quiet for a few seconds.

“Do you want me to come get you, pumpkin? Bring you home with me?” she asked, worry making her voice sound low and strained.

Part of me really, really wanted to say yes. To let Grandma Frost come get me and take me back to her house, just like she had when I was a little girl and I’d woken up scared and crying in the middle of the night the first time I slept over at a friend’s house when my mom was out of town.

But the other part of me wondered how much danger I would be putting my grandma in if I let her do that. Word would get out if I’d left the hotel before the other kids, and it wouldn’t be too hard for the Reaper to track me back to my grandma’s house. He already knew where it was since that was where he’d tried to kill me in the first place.

Besides, I wasn’t a little girl, and I didn’t want to act or be treated like one. Yeah, I was only seventeen, but I’d grown up a lot since coming to Mythos.

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