Forget Me Not (The Ceruleans: Book 2) by Megan Tayte

Author:Megan Tayte [Tayte, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Heaven Afire
Published: 2015-02-20T06:00:00+00:00

28: PETER BLAKE’S GRANDDAUGHTER

The first thing I saw when I opened my eyes the next day was a crocodile. I shrieked.

‘What – what?’

‘Sorry – sorry!’

I grabbed Luke, who had shot up in bed and was urgently scanning the room for the threat. ‘It’s okay,’ I told him. ‘I’m an idiot. I just woke up and saw that, and it freaked me out.’ I pointed to the chair beside the bed, where yellow eyes were watching us.

‘Hey!’ shouted a voice from downstairs. Cara. ‘You guys okay?’

‘No!’ hollered Luke. ‘We’re being attacked by a bloody sequined crocodile!’

Cara’s laugh was long and loud. Luke cringed and took out his frustration on the beast, beating it soundly with a pillow.

‘Okay,’ I said, stilling his hand. ‘I think you killed it.’

He stopped pounding. ‘Sorry. It’s just – the humiliation! She drives me mad!’

I picked up the offending article and it hung limp in my hand. Why I’d mistaken it for anything dangerous was a mystery. It was a novelty sock, garish green with yellow sequined eyes and toes designed to look like jagged teeth.

‘I take it this is Cara’s work?’

‘Yes. She swapped out all the normal socks in my bag. Her idea of a fun prank.’

His expression was thunderous but I couldn’t help grinning.

‘You went out in these last night?’

‘Yes.’

‘Well, that explains why you didn’t want to give me your shoes outside the club.’

‘I would have, if it came to it.’

I pressed a hand to my heart. ‘You’d have braved the streets of Newquay in these for me?’

The storm clouds dissipated. ‘For you,’ he said, ‘anything.’

He pressed me to him and kissed me and we fell back onto the bed. But along the way I reflexively tightened my hand on the sock and a merry jingle rang out. We froze.

‘What the heck is that?’

‘Er, Disney, I think?’

A disembodied voice took up the tune of Peter Pan’s ‘Never Smile at a Crocodile’. A very close disembodied voice.

‘CARA!’ roared Luke.

‘Luke!’ she called back cheerily from the other side of the door. ‘Come on – up and at ’em. Aunt Maud’s expecting us at midday, and I really need Scarlett’s help with… er… choosing an outfit to wear.’

‘To see Maud?’

‘Yep.’

‘The cream,’ I mouthed at him, and pointed to my legs. Understanding dawned on his face, washing away most, if not all, the irritation.

‘Fine,’ he said loudly. ‘The sooner you go away, the sooner Scarlett’ll be down.’

We heard her moving away – but only just.

‘Since when is Cara stealthy?’ mused Luke. ‘Usually, you can hear her coming a mile off, stomping along.’

‘I’d better get up,’ I said.

‘Mmm,’ he agreed, then wrapped me in his arms so tightly that movement was impossible.

‘If I don’t, next time she’s bound to just walk right in.’

‘Probably.’

‘And find us like this.’

‘She’d probably cheer.’

‘She probably would, but I wouldn’t.’

‘I know. It’s just hard to let you go.’

A pause. Then his pout dissolved and, smiling, he took the lead:

‘But we still have another night here, after the surf.’

‘We do.’

‘And many more nights, back in Twycombe.’

‘We do.’

He squeezed me so hard I couldn’t breathe, and then released me.

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