Entranced (Goddess of Fate Book 2) by Tamara Hart Heiner

Author:Tamara Hart Heiner [Heiner, Tamara Hart]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-02-17T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Aaron put the car into Drive, and we didn’t talk the entire hour home. My tears dried up and I fell into a miffed silence, equally angry at him for questioning my loyalty and upset with myself for not knowing my feelings.

“We’re home,” Aaron said when we finally pulled up beside my white Honda. He grabbed my overnight bag and put it in the trunk of my car.

“Thanks,” I said stiffly. I got out and stretched my legs, standing beside him.

My phone buzzed, and this time, like the last two times, it was my mom, asking again where I was. She’d kill me if she knew I’d gone to New York this weekend. I texted back, Still with Aaron. Be home soon. I’d told her an hour ago that I’d met up with him. It was the truth. Just not all of it.

“Is that what you do to me?” Aaron said, watching me as he closed the trunk. “Tell me enough of the story that it sounds true while you hide the rest?”

I gasped, my face prickling with heat at his accusation. “Why would you say that?”

He shrugged, colder than I’d ever seen him. “You’re getting pretty good at this deception thing.”

I shut my phone, enraged. “I better get going.”

“See ya.” Aaron turned toward his car, then paused and swiveled toward me. He didn’t quite meet my eyes. “Oh. That little boy from the hospital?”

“Carter.” I rocked on the balls of my feet, apprehension squeezing my lungs.

“He’s all better, Jayne.” His features softened somewhat. “They discharged him yesterday. No sign of cancer, and his vitals are excellent.”

I pressed a hand to my throat and nodded. “Thank you for telling me.”

“So whatever’s going on, whatever power Laima might be losing, she still had enough to save him.”

I nodded, though his words made me think of something he’d pointed out earlier. Maybe it wasn’t Laima’s power Karta was after. Maybe it was mine after all.

His eyes flicked over my face, and his body twitched as if it warred against him. Then he gave a shake of his head, got in his car and drove away, leaving me alone in the parking lot, feeling emptier than I could ever remember feeling.

*~*

Mom stood in the driveway waiting for me when I pulled in. The only thing missing was a tapping foot.

I was in no mood for it. “What?” I said, getting out and grabbing my overnight bag. “Good grief, Mom, you act like I can’t go out for the weekend.”

“For starters, Jayne, you’re only seventeen. You can’t go off and only tell me afterward that you’ve gone somewhere.”

I relented. “Sorry. I should’ve told you first.”

Mom brushed me off with a wave of her hand. “I don’t even know who this girl is. Just because she’s Dana’s cousin doesn’t mean she’s someone we can trust.”

She could say that again. “You’re right.”

“I don’t want to be right,” she snapped. “I want you to be home. Something strange is going on, and I don’t want you out with people I don’t know.

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