Caged Moon by Rachel Deagan

Author:Rachel Deagan [Deagan, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-01-18T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

I spun around, but he had gone. The absence of his presence made the goose bumps on the back of my neck fade, but I felt cold. How did he get out? The window by the desk sat open and I could hear the faint babbling of birds outside. Walking over, I peered across the front lawn. I didn’t see a sign of him anywhere.

“Where’d he go?” Ty asked.

“I don’t know.” I said. “I don’t see him anywhere.” I didn’t like this. “Let’s get of here.”

I didn’t need to ask twice. We sped out of the study, down the front hallway, and swung the main door wide. Several sparrows flapped and chirped as they startled off into the air, but that didn’t give us pause. My hands landed on the CRV with a flush of relief. My fingers couldn’t work fast enough as I fiddled with the door handle.

“Hurry, Charlotte,” Ty said from the passenger side, jumping and fidgeting. “I locked mine.”

“What?” I asked. The door budged open and I slipped inside. Leaning over, I popped hers ajar. “Who do you thinks going to steal this thing out here?”

Ty slipped into the warn seat. “Who’d have thought we’d be running from red haired dudes?”

“Good point.”

Gunning the engine, we took off down the small overgrown path that Liam and his friends called a road. Once the shrubbery faded into the main single lane highway heading back towards civilization, I sighed. “What was that?” I asked.

“Did you get the book?” Ty asked.

“Yeah, here.” I handed it to her. “I can’t even think about that right now. My head is spinning.”

“Yeah, whose idea was that anyway?”

I glared at her. “Amusing, Ty.”

“Okay, so it was kind of a bad idea.”

“Kind of?”

Ty shrugged, flopping back into her seat. “At least we got the book.”

“Yeah,” I said. I really didn’t want to think about this anymore, not now. My head hurt. I also realized we left Liam’s front door open. The idea of him knowing we broke into his house, made me feel like the worst person in the world. I wanted to get home.

Ty had drifted into a strange quietness by the time I turned onto my long hilly driveway, but as soon as the house came into view, she gasped. Sitting in front of my garage sat a beautiful black Ford Mustang.

“Wow, nice car,” Ty said.

I parked and shut off the engine, afraid to look.

“Is that Liam talking to your dad?” Ty asked. “What’s he doing here?”

“I don’t know,” I said, the words barely passing my lips.

Dad looked up from his conversation with a grin, and waved at me to come over. Liam turned from Dad and his gaze met mine. Panic gripped my chest. Did he know we broke into his house? No, there was no way he would, unless that guy called him. It seemed unlikely considering the time frame involved. Both Liam and Dad smiled at us. I needed to relax.

“Hide the book,” I said, forcing a wave back to them as I hopped down from the car.

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