I Knew You Were Trouble: A Jessie Jefferson Novel by Paige Toon

Author:Paige Toon [Toon, Paige]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781471118814
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Published: 2015-07-29T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

It’s the following weekend and, as Johnny won’t let me go anywhere without Davey or Lewis or both, we’ve swung by to pick up Agnes.

Meg took me aside earlier and gently encouraged me to indulge Johnny until he gets over the kidnapping scare. But I hope he chills out soon. There’s only so much babysitting that I’m going to be able to take.

‘Oh my God, you look amazing!’ Agnes cries, climbing into the limo beside me.

‘So do you!’ I give her a kiss, being careful not to get my blood-red lipstick all over her.

We’ve seen each other’s outfits already – we went shopping for them together, after all – but now our hair and make-up are done and we look properly scary. And hopefully a little sexy, too. At least, that was the plan. She’s dressed as a witch, in a black sequinned bustier and flared miniskirt, with dark make-up, messy blue-black hair extensions and a sparkly hat. I’m the Bride of Dracula, in a shredded white lace wedding dress, my blonde hair backcombed all over the place, my eye make-up muted, but my lipstick making up for it.

‘Is… Is Jack coming? Does he need a lift?’ I dare to ask, stuttering slightly, despite my attempts to sound cool and unbothered. Dammit.

‘No, he’s meeting us there.’

My heart falls at her no, but skips at the second part of her sentence. I shouldn’t care if he’s going or not.

We all live up in the hills, so it doesn’t take long to get to Lottie’s house. Davey drives us in through the back entrance and I’m surprised to see that all of the mansion lights are off. It looks deserted, but Lottie lives in a log cabin guesthouse in the garden and I can hear the music pounding through the limo doors as we approach. The mansion probably has twenty bedrooms, but Lottie still finds it cramped, thanks to her dislike of her dad’s most recent wife.

Johnny has deemed the security at the Tremway mansion sufficient, so Lewis doesn’t have to babysit me tonight. Davey promises to come back for me as soon as I call him and reminds me of my midnight curfew. I’ve only just got over my jet lag so I think I can just about cope with that.

Agnes hooks her arm through mine and, as Davey’s headlights turn away from us, our eyes adjust to the darkness.

Agnes said Lottie’s Halloween parties were not to be missed. She wasn’t lying.

The log cabin is lit only by the light of hundreds of candles and a multitude of red lanterns hanging from the branches of the surrounding trees. There are dozens of pumpkin lanterns lining our path and resting on every visible surface, all carved with gruesome faces. I can’t even imagine how much time it took to do them – the house staff have probably been working on them all week. I bet there was a professional party planner involved. Fake cobwebs drift down from the trees and I can see the shadowy shapes of spiders set within them.

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