Immortally Ever After by Angie Fox

Author:Angie Fox [Fox, Angie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Fantasy
ISBN: 9780312546687
Google: 0Fc8RAyj9P4C
Amazon: 0312546688
Goodreads: 16173083
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-08-27T04:00:00+00:00

chapter thirteen

I managed to keep my head on straight until the meeting degenerated into chitchat, pats on the back, and lengthy discussions of how great it was to have Galen back, if only for a little while.

I slipped out and headed up the path, toward the minefield.

“Yo!” Rodger called from behind me. I kept walking and he jogged to catch up, falling into a long-legged stride beside me. His torch bobbed with every step.

Why did I keep forgetting to bring a torch?

“You didn’t say good-bye,” Rodger huffed next to me.

I was done being polite. “I’m not your girlfriend.”

“No, but you’re Galen’s—”

“Rodger!”

“Never mind,” he said, as if I were the one being unreasonable. “I know when to shut up.”

No he didn’t.

I could see my nosy friend out of the corner of my eye. Watching me.

He sighed. “Why do you always have to make things so hard?”

Me? “That’s rich.” Things would be perfectly easy if people would just leave me alone. “I’m not the one waltzing into camp with a dangerous fugitive. I’m not the one who thought it was a good idea to come clean to everyone from deputy supply to mess hall table washer.” Yes, I’d agreed to it. But now, I felt so exposed.

Rodger balked. “It could work.”

We took a left, through the darkened maze of the minefield. I stared straight ahead, keeping my eyes on the path. Nighttime shadows seemed to come alive in the desert.

“Okay,” Rodger mused. “Yes. I admit it. Somebody in camp will screw up eventually. But we only need to pull this off for a week, and then he’ll be gone.”

Yes, he would.

Rodger kept at it. “I think it’s good that people know what’s going on. Teaming up like this will keep the investigators off our backs longer.”

“Maybe,” I said. It was as much as he was going to get out of me at the moment.

Of course Galen could draw people together, and, sure, he was willing to blindly trust in the universe, but I knew firsthand what it was like to be screwed over.

I puffed out a breath of air, and saw it form a cloud in front of me. “I just want Galen to find a safe approach, and be able to handle Leta so they can both leave.”

Rodger held the torch high while I squeezed between two wrecked Jeeps. “You need to give the guy a break.”

“I never should have told you anything,” I said, avoiding broken windshield glass.

Rodger shoved through after me. “Why does it have to be all or nothing with you?”

I wanted to tip him straight into a wrecked cannon cart. “Because that’s the way love works.” Even Mister “I married the right girl and now I run through daisy patches” had to see that. I stared up at the red moon. I was right. I knew I was right.

Maybe that was my problem with Marc. I couldn’t love him deeply enough. And when that happens, you have to let go.

Of course, I had to let Galen go as well.

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