Fury Frayed by Melissa Haag

Author:Melissa Haag [Haag, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shattered Glass Publishing LLC
Published: 2018-01-22T18:30:00+00:00

Fourteen

I took my time in the shower and thought about the day before.

A dead body.

A weird conversation where adults hadn’t seemed overly concerned about who’d made the body dead.

And Oanen.

He’d managed to weird me out again. After Eliana had ditched me in the living room to warm my breakfast, Oanen had sat next to me on the couch and watched TV. Simple. No big deal. Except he’d put his arm behind me on the back of the couch. Still not that big of a deal. Until I’d felt his fingers on the back of my neck again. The soft stroke, up and down, had spread a tingle of something racing under my skin.

I’d bolted. Me. I didn’t bolt. I decked people.

I groaned and stuck my face in the spray of hot water, wishing I didn’t have to go to the Academy. The idea of skipping Monday check-in bounced around in my head until I remembered how Trammer had come for me the last time. If I wanted to avoid a ride in his dead-body car, I needed to go with Eliana.

Turning off the water, I mentally prepared myself for another Monday.

By the time Eliana pulled up in front of the house, I’d talked myself up enough to greet her with an enthusiastic smile.

“Hey, Megan,” she said when I got in. “You look much better than yesterday. Headache gone?”

I only felt a tiny bit of guilt that I’d lied about having a headache to get her and Oanen to leave.

“Yep. All better.” I leaned forward and eyed the skies. “No Oanen?”

She shook her head slightly. “He’s running late, but he’ll be there.”

I settled back in my seat as she took off and debated asking her about him. He was like her brother. Did that make him a closed topic?

“Can I ask you about Oanen?”

“Sure. But you better make it quick. I’m not sure how long it’ll be before he catches up.”

“Does he have a girlfriend?”

Instead of the yes I was hoping for, she let out a crazed shriek that nearly gave me a heart attack.

“Oh my gosh! I can’t believe I was right. I mean, I saw you checking him out that first day we rode together, but I wasn’t sure if it was check-checking him out. He’s going to go crazy when—”

“Whoa, whoa, whoa. Timeout. I wasn’t asking because I’m interested.”

“Right.” She drew out the word in obvious disbelief. “I’m a succubus. I know you’re interested every time I get a whiff of your l-lust when you look at him.”

I ignored her stumble on the word and her beginning blush.

“What? No way.”

Her peal of laughter filled the car.

“It doesn’t mean anything,” I said quickly, denying the possibility of me with Oanen. “It’s like window shopping. I might like looking, but I have no intention to buy.”

“Too bad,” she said. “Because I’m pretty sure he has his eye on you. And he really wants to buy.”

“I’m not for sale. Ever. We talked about this. I have way too many issues to be someone’s other half.

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