Discovery by Char Webster

Author:Char Webster [Webster, Char]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: teen paranormal, teen action adventure, teen adult, teen and young adult, teen romance paranormal fantasy, adventure and fantasy, teen and young adult fantasy, teen young adult love stories, teen and young adult action adventure
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Zach and Alex were sitting in the family room when Kate came downstairs. She had wanted to give them some privacy to talk to their uncle, and she also didn’t want to hear if they had chosen to live with him instead of staying with her.

She was nervous about talking to them and wanted to prolong it as much as possible.

Both kids were looking a little uncomfortable and fidgeting in their seats.

“It’s really early,” Kate said, stalling. “I didn’t get to ask you before. What are you guys doing back from Eric and Emily’s house? Is everything alright? Did something happen?”

“Everything was fine. We stayed up all night playing video games and watching movies. We came back to get a movie they had brought over last week. We were going to go right back, but we texted and told them we would catch up later,” Alex answered.

Kate took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. “Did your Uncle Bud leave?” Kate asked.

“He left but said he’d be back soon.” Zach told her.

“Are you guys dating? You were eating breakfast at 6:00 a.m.,” Alex questioned.

“No!” Kate said a little too loudly. “Why would you even think that?”

“It looks like you’re dating him. He spent the night,” Alex added.

“This is not an appropriate conversation to be having right now.” Kate tried to steer the conversation back to a safer place.

“Did you two have a date before he spent the night?” Alex asked.

“Guys, we’re not talking about this,” Kate was getting exasperated.

“Do you like him?” Zach asked.

Right now, I want to clobber him, Kate thought, and then realized they could hear her thoughts.

“Yeah, you like him,” Alex said with a smirk.

“We’re friendly because of you three, and that’s all.”

Both kids looked like they didn’t believe her. “He said you were friends,” Zach told her. That upset Kate and she wasn’t sure why.

Kate took another deep breath and decided to just go for it. “I know your uncle is around now, but I really want you to stay here with me. I love all three of you, and I want us to be a family.” Kate was so scared that they wouldn’t want to live with her.

“Uncle Bud told us that we should stay with you, at least for now,” Alex explained.

“He did?” She was surprised.

“Yeah, he told us that it was safer here with you and that he was trying to find out who killed our parents,” Zach blurted out.

“He did what?” Kate couldn’t believe he told them about that.

“Kate, it’s okay, we’re not little kids. We know you will take care of us.”

“I need to talk to your uncle,” Kate said, exasperated.

“He said he would see us later,” Zach reminded her.

Alex said, “I think I’m going to try to get some sleep since we didn’t get any last night.” Zach agreed, and both kids went upstairs to their bedrooms.

Kate felt completely mentally exhausted. Everything was falling apart and it was all Nick’s fault.

Kate didn’t have long to wallow in self-pity. Maddy woke up a few minutes later, and Kate was happy to be distracted by her.

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