Dream a Little Dream (The Silver Trilogy) by Gier Kerstin

Author:Gier, Kerstin [Gier, Kerstin]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781627790284
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Published: 2015-04-14T04:00:00+00:00

19

“I’LL TAKE YOU UP,” said Grayson after he had managed, as if by magic, to maneuver Ernest’s wide Mercedes into a tiny little parking space. “So you won’t be in trouble for staying out so late.”

“Are you crazy?” I slammed the passenger door much harder than necessary. “It’s ten past eleven, and we’re here only because you made up that fairy tale about my strict mother and I didn’t want to show you up in front of your friends.” And I’d have liked so much to stay there. In the time I had left to me, I hadn’t been able to ask even a fraction of the questions whirring around in my head. On the short drive back Grayson had said nothing to help in clarifying the situation; he had just told me off, saying “damn it all” and “downright stupid” with above-average frequency.

Even so, however, I’d been given a few answers that I needed to think over thoroughly. To be honest, I couldn’t wait to open my notebook and write it all down—this time maybe with the help of clearly organized graphs.

Grayson had climbed out of the car too. “We’re in London. Do you know how high the crime rate in this city is?”

“Yes, sure, it’s hardly safe to walk a step in this run-down area.” I pointed to the nostalgically old-fashioned streetlights ahead of us in the sleeping street, which looked like an advertising brochure for idyllic town living. “Street gangs indulging in shoot-outs the whole time, sex fiends lurking in front gardens, and isn’t that Jack the Ripper just coming around the corner—oh, shit!”

It wasn’t Jack the Ripper, it was Mom, who’d been taking Buttercup for her evening walk, just coming around the corner. But that was about as bad.

“If I were you, I’d get right back in that car and drive away, Grayson!” I hissed.

“Don’t make such a damn fuss. I only want to take you to the damn door, because that’s damn well the right thing to do!” Grayson wasted his last chance of flight by shooting furious glances at me from his caramel-colored eyes.

And by then Mom had seen us. “Yoo-hoo,” she called, letting Buttercup off the leash so that she could run on ahead and jump up at us.

I was able to relish the surprised expression on Grayson’s face for two seconds. “Your own fault, if you ask me,” I said sweetly. “Now you can explain why we’re back at only just after eleven.”

“Because her daughter always says yes when she ought to say no?” Grayson bent down to pat Buttercup and imitated my voice. “What? You’re doing something forbidden and dangerous that I don’t understand, and in addition I’ve been expressly warned against it? Yes, sure, I’d just love to join in!”

“You are such a…” As I was searching for the right word, Mom reached us.

“Hello, you two! Back already? Wasn’t it a good party?”

“Yes, it was great.” I smiled as maliciously as possible. “But Grayson wanted to get rid of me.”

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