Hunger by Eliza Nolan

Author:Eliza Nolan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: E. N. Publications
Published: 2020-03-27T04:00:00+00:00

8

Eva

The rain lightens to a soft patter as we maneuver back onto the highway. A sign reads: “Minnet 5 Miles.”

I grip the steering wheel and glance in the rearview mirror. It’s adjusted so I can keep an eye on Ashton in the back seat. I can feel Grace rolling her eyes at me. She thinks I’m being paranoid. I don’t care. I do not trust him.

Ashton lounges, seatbelt on, staring out the window at the thick forest of pines as if in thought. He’s flung his wet coat over the seatback, and sports a mostly dry green tee-shirt that reads “Worlds Okayest Mom.”

Grace leans back over her seat. “Do you see any food back there?”

Ashton eyes the seat next to him, which is piled with a few canvas grocery bags.

“What do you want?”

“What’s in that bag on the floor?”

He picks up a small paper bag and looks inside. “Just some Pringles.”

“I’ll take ‘em.” She squeals with delight, nearly hopping over the seat to get them.

“Really?” His brow pinches together as if he can’t believe she wants them, but he reluctantly hands her the unopened tube of potato chips.

I know her hunger has gotten a bit out of control in the last day, I might even call it epic, but what does he have against eating potato chips in the morning? We’re on a road trip—sort of. Road trips are the reason snack food was invented. I thin my eyes at him in the mirror, even though he’s not looking.

Grace pops off the top of the can and peels open the safety seal. She reaches her fingers in but jolts back in her seat, eyes wide as she drops the chip canister on the floor. There’s a hiss, and she whimpers, covering one hand with the other.

The car swerves, and I turn back to the road, barely correcting in time to miss a passing car.

Was that steam coming from her hand?

“What happened?” I ask.

Grace looks down at the canister of chips, now spilled out on the car mat. She lifts her feet up onto the seat, curling into a ball. “The chips burned me.” She shakes her hand, and then sticks her fingers in her mouth.

In the backseat Ashton chuckles.

“Unbelievable,” he mumbles under his breath. He leans forward, placing his hands on the front-seat backs. “How absolutely clueless are you?” He’s sneering now, almost as if he’s angry at Grace.

That’s it.

Hell if I’m gonna drive around with a strange pissy jerk in the back seat of our car. Nobody calls my sister clueless—except me.

The tires crunch over the gravel as I ease the SUV off the road.

Grace drops her fingers from her mouth and looks around. “Why are we stopping?”

I swivel in my seat, fist clenched. “Get out!”

Ashton ignores me, pushes his glasses up his nose, and looks at Grace sideways. “Why would you try to eat salt?” He scrunches up his nose in disgust. “Did you really think you could? Salt? The one thing demons cannot eat. How stupid are

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