Goddess of Fate by Alexandra Sokoloff

Author:Alexandra Sokoloff
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2015-07-23T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

In the car again, Aurora was silent, reflective. As Luke drove the familiar streets, he was roiling with emotion and confusion, thinking like a madman. Literally. Because he’d heard Nona and Aurora talking.

His old-country, old-school grandmother actually thought that this woman was a Norn.

“I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with this,” he said aloud.

Aurora looked at him with azure eyes, and he could see that she knew what he meant. “You need to do what you know you need to do. And trust that I’m here to help.” Her voice dropped. “Do you trust me?”

He realized that he did.

“Then you know what you need to do.”

He was torn between stopping everything and having the full-on freak-out that this reality-bending deserved. But a) being with her felt so natural that he couldn’t really find the supernatural in it, and b) the case was driving him. He felt that if he could only make sense of that, then everything else would make sense, too.

And c) Aurora was looking at him in that way again. A way that, regardless of whether she was Norn or not, made Luke want to head over to the curb and pull her into his lap so he could feel the shimmering silk of her hair spill over his arm as he kissed her. Her mouth would taste like lingonberry...

Eyes on the road, he warned himself.

“All right, then. We’re going to the school and we’re going to find Tomasson.”

* * *

The sight of the school was so familiar, not just from Luke’s past memories, but from his dream. Time can do strange things, Aurora had said. It really felt as if he had been there just hours ago.

Pacific High wasn’t a typical high school; the huge main building was a former monastery and as elegant as any university’s.

He held the door open for Aurora as they walked in through the Administration office door of the main building, and she looked up at him in a way that gave him a sudden rush of déjà vu. It felt like—really felt like—he’d done this with her before.

That was the dream, wasn’t it? Or is there something more?

He flashed on the image he’d had that morning of a girl with red-gold hair. Could it really be? From that long ago?

She looked away from him as if she knew what he was thinking.

There were a few students passing in the hall, including a tall, broad boy in a letter jacket walking with a slim and pretty girl. As they approached him and Aurora, Luke had the feeling that he was seeing his high school self through the mirror of time.

He glanced at her and she looked back at him and he had a nearly irresistible impulse to take her hand—but resisted.

He nodded ahead to the office, and said gruffly, “There.”

It was times like this that Luke loved being a detective. When he handed his shield across the counter the clerk stared down, then raised her eyes with a slightly starstruck look.

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