Chasing Polaris by Erica Cope & Autumn Doughton

Author:Erica Cope & Autumn Doughton [Cope, Erica & Doughton, Autumn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01N5NBQFO
Goodreads: 25048361
Published: 2017-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

You would think that rolling in a pit of bubbles with someone would go a long way toward softening the mood, but in this case, not so much.

“Thanks,” I tell her when we’re in the car. “For helping back there.”

She snorts. “I didn’t do it for you. I just didn’t want Amelia to come back and find out that her kitchen had floated away.”

“Either way. It was cool.”

No answer.

After that, the conversation only gets worse. A nervous energy is buzzing through the silent car. My brain searches for something--anything--to talk about, but I’m blank. All I can think of is a black hole, just a sucking empty space where all the good stuff should be.

I keep coming back to all the ways things could have gone differently after Imogen crawled up onto that stage last night. What if I’d been straight with her from the beginning? What if I’d never even stepped in and taken Marcus’ place for the scavenger hunt?

It’s entirely possible that in another world and in another life I could meet Imogen Shaw for the first time and get things right. But in this lifetime I screwed up and I don’t know how to set that right.

“In two blocks take a left at the stoplight and we’ll be on my street,” she says flatly.

What follows is the longest two blocks of my life. The pounding in my chest increases rapidly. I start to feel hot, like a bunch of dust mites are crawling around beneath my skin. I want to glance over and see her face to get some clue about what she’s thinking, but I don’t trust myself enough. So I keep my eyes ahead, my insides grinding like tractor wheels.

“Just up here,” she says and points out the street.

My stomach does a somersault and I realize that this is it. The moment. My last chance.

In seconds I’m going to make this turn and then I’ll drive onto her street and pull into her driveway and that’ll be the end. Finito. Imogen will get out of my car and that will be the last I’ll ever see of her.

The stoplight changes to yellow, but instead of gunning it, I slow to a stop. Anything to delay the inevitable for just a few more minutes.

I shouldn’t have lied.

That much is obvious. But if I’d been straight and told her everything from the very beginning, would I have gotten to spend the whole night with her? Probably not.

Squinting through the windshield at the road, I almost laugh. It’s a twisted kind of cosmic joke, isn’t it? I do the wrong thing and I get the good stuff. I do right thing and I miss out on all of it.

My hand tightens on the steering wheel. I take a breath and turn to Imogen. She’s facing forward staring out the windshield. She must feel my eyes on her because she tilts her face my way. I stare, drinking in her light grey eyes, her long lashes and that small, stubborn mouth.

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