Hero by Mike Lupica

Author:Mike Lupica [Lupica, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Published: 2010-10-15T07:00:00+00:00

18

KATE Paredes considered herself a brave girl.

She didn’t wander all over the city by herself, but neither was she easily intimidated by it. Her mother, her wonderful mother, Alba, the giver of the best advice in two languages, had once told her something she never forgot:

“If you think you’re in the wrong place, you probably are.”

Kate didn’t take silly chances, but that didn’t mean she didn’t like to test herself occasionally. Get out of her comfort zone. The summer before, despite all the kidding she got from Zach, she’d signed up for Outward Bound, putting herself out there in the woods of Maine for a couple of weeks. And she’d liked that more than she thought she would, relying on herself, being strong and resourceful and using common sense.

From the start, she’d understood that when it came to her and Zach, she was the stronger one. It wasn’t as though she thought he was some kind of wimp. Just that if one of them was going to lean on the other, Zach was going to be the leaner.

Not anymore.

Not after what she’d seen today, with her own eyes. This wasn’t Zach telling her about the old man, about the way he’d gotten back to the city.

This time it was right in front of her.

The Zach she’d seen at the reservoir, the Zach she’d seen take down two men . . . she didn’t know that Zach Harriman.

Spins and kicks and jumps and . . . fearlessness. The weird calm, the confident way he took on those guys. Like he knew he could take them.

This Zach had scared the brave girl.

He scared her and so did this new world of his, the one with the magic in it, with bad guys who disappeared into thin air, with danger, and Kate somehow knew this wasn’t going to be the last violence in it.

Kate lay in the dark that night and kept replaying what had happened, a much scarier version of counting sheep. And even when she finally fell asleep, there were nightmares that she would still remember, much too vividly, in the morning.

Nightmares about men disappearing every time she tried to get a good look at them. And about someone she felt should be a friend, but who had the face of a stranger.

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