Lock and Key by Evangeline Anderson

Author:Evangeline Anderson [Anderson, Evangeline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evangeline Anderson Books
Published: 2020-01-17T18:30:00+00:00

35

Griffin drew the Coach to one side, behind the line of gym students who were facing the field. He was talking to her earnestly, though he was speaking too low for me to understand him.

Coach Vasquez scowled at him at first and shook her head in a short, definite way.

“No exceptions,” I heard her say. “Now go on, Darkheart—you’re holding up my class!”

Griffin raised an eyebrow at her.

“Very well,” I heard him say. “I didn’t want to resort to this but…”

Pulling down the dark glasses he wore during the daytime, he stared directly into her eyes and said something else I couldn’t quite catch. I saw the pupils of his lightning and pitch eyes dilate for a moment and then he put his glasses back up and nodded at the Coach.

“Do you understand?”

For a moment she just stood there, staring at him. Then she nodded, like someone coming out of a dream.

“Yes. Yes, of course.”

“Good. See to it, then.”

Then he turned and strolled back towards Kaitlyn and me.

“What just now happened? What did you say to her?” I asked him but he only shook his head.

“I’ll see you after class, little witch. Make sure you’re not late.”

Then he was gone, disappearing into the door that led through the boys’ locker room and back out into the school, moving with the easy, slouching grace of a panther.

“Well, I guess we’d better go.” There was a note of resignation in Kaitlyn’s voice.

I squeezed her hand comfortingly.

“It’s okay—I’m with you.”

But as we went to take our places at the end of the girl’s line-up, Coach Vasquez came to intercept us.

“Miss Fellows,” she said to Kaitlyn. “What are you doing here?”

“Um…I was, uh, that is…I’m here for class?” Kaitlyn said uncertainly.

Coach Vasquez frowned.

“Don’t be foolish. You know you’re excused from Physical Education for the rest of the year. Get back into your uniform and go directly to Study Hall. I don’t want to see you out here again!”

“Oh, uh…thank you, Coach.” Kaitlyn nodded gratefully and looked at me. “Um, is Megan excused too?”

“Of course not!” Coach Vasquez glared at me. “And she’s about to be late! Get in line, Miss Latimer. And hurry!”

“Yes, Coach!” I barely had time to squeeze Kaitlyn’s hand again before I had to run out onto the sunny field by myself.

As I stood there in the merciless sunlight with all my scars showing again, I wondered what in the world Griffin had done to get Kaitlyn out of gym class indefinitely. I remembered him saying something to Sanchez about how his kind could control beasts—did it have anything to do with that, somehow?

I had no idea.

But whatever it was he had done to get Kaitlyn out of gym, why couldn’t he have done it for me too?

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