Cold Hard Truth by Brown Anne Greenwood;

Author:Brown, Anne Greenwood;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Published: 2018-05-06T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

ASSAULT

Emmie pulled her skate up on the bench and untied it. Max was right. They were too big. Maybe tightening them would keep her from looking like a flailing wombat on the ice. The adrenaline from what almost happened—and what was sure to happen as soon as he returned—was still ripping up her bloodstream like an electrical current. Max was always taking care of things. She was starting to maybe like that about him. Maybe.

She’d just tightened her second skate when Max returned. Except that when Emmie spun around on the bench, it wasn’t Max.

It was Angie. Frankie’s girlfriend and—before Emmie—the only girl Nick had let into his inner circle. Angie’s pupils were dilated, and there was a fresh bruise on her right cheek. She looked like she was ready to kill someone. It looked like that someone was Emmie.

Emmie got up on still-wobbly ankles. “What are you doing here?”

Angie laughed without any humor. “Oh, I think you know.” Then she threw her arm out to block Emmie’s path to the door.

Emmie’s mind slipped into survival mode. There were plenty of people outside. Nothing bad would happen if she could get out of this warming house. She was unsteady on her feet, but the fact that Angie was obviously riding the edges of a recent high leveled their playing field.

Emmie dug her toe pick into the plywood floor and got as much traction as she could. Then, with her head down, she rammed into Angie, whose body still blocked the door. When Emmie’s head made impact, Angie let out an Uff! then staggered backward, arms grasping, and they both pitched out the door, landing in the snowbank near the edge of the lower rink.

Emmie wasn’t sure which one of them got to their feet the fastest, but Angie gripped the fabric of Emmie’s coat at both shoulders and said, “Emmie, please. You got to help me.”

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