Kiss Of Frost by Jennifer Estep

Author:Jennifer Estep [Estep, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Teen & Young Adult, Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Contemporary, School & Education, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Action & Adventure, Survival Stories, Myths & Legends, Norse
ISBN: 9780758266941
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2011-11-28T22:00:00+00:00

fine.”

Her face relaxed a little bit. “You’d damn wel better be.

You’re my best friend.”

“And you’re mine,” I whispered back, hot tears stinging my eyes. “You’re my best friend, too.”

Daphne gripped my hand even tighter, her Valkyrie strength crunching my bones together, but I didn’t pul away.

I knew I’d have bruises tomorrow, but I didn’t care. Right now, I was happy to let her warm, happy relief flood my body. We stayed like that for a few seconds, before the Valkyrie’s gaze flicked around the room.

“What’s going on?” she asked. “What’s with the big professor powwow?”

Metis smoothed a stray piece of her black hair back into her bun. “Nickamedes and I were just fil ing Gwen in on what happened during the avalanche and what we think might have caused it.”

“You mean the explosion, ” Daphne corrected her.

“Somebody total y set a bomb off on top of the mountain, didn’t they? I mean, the flames were just shooting up and up into the air like they were never going to stop.” Nickamedes and Metis exchanged another look, obviously debating how much they wanted to tel Daphne—

and whether they thought the Valkyrie would spread the gossip around to al the other students. But they decided to trust her or just realized that I would tel her later anyway, because Nickamedes final y nodded.

“Yes, we do believe it was some kind of deliberate explosion meant to specifical y cause the avalanche,” the librarian said.

Daphne rol ed her eyes. “Wel , of course, it was. When Reapers try to kil people, they always bring out the big guns.”

Busted. I was total y, completely busted.

I knew the second the words came out of Daphne’s mouth that there was no taking them back—or wiggling my way out of an explanation.

“Reapers?” Nickamedes asked in a sharp tone. “What Reapers?”

Daphne frowned, a puzzled expression on her pretty face.

“The Reaper. The one who’s trying to kil Gwen. The one who almost ran her over with a car and then took a shot at her in the Library of Antiquities the other night ...” The Valkyrie’s voice drifted off as she realized just how intently Nickamedes and Metis were staring at her. She looked at them a second before turning her gaze to me.

“You didn’t tel them about the Reaper? You told me you were going to talk to Metis!”

“And I changed my mind,” I muttered. “I have the right to do that, you know. Free wil and al . We talked about it just the other day in myth-history class.”

Daphne put her hands on her hips and glared at me. The pink sparks flashing around her fingertips crackled and coalesced into tiny streaks of lightning, showing me just how pissed she was at me right now.

“And I told you that you don’t mess around when it comes to Reapers, especial y when one of them is trying to kil you,” the Valkyrie snapped.

Metis stepped around the hospital bed and put a hand on Daphne’s arm. “I think the two of you need to tel us what’s going on.

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