Prowl by Amber Garza

Author:Amber Garza [Garza, Amber]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Mystery, Young Adult
ISBN: 9781467982177
Google: P7p3tgAACAAJ
Amazon: 1467982172
Goodreads: 13432219
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2012-01-20T00:00:00+00:00

11

Ringing awakened me. Without opening my eyes, I reached over and pushed the button on my alarm clock. The piercing sound persisted. I opened my eyes and listened. It was the phone. Judging by the amount of times it rang it was obvious that Grandma was either outside gardening or not home. I fumbled for the phone on my nightstand and answered it.

“Hello.” My voice was thick and groggy.

“Hi Kenzie,” Mom responded. “Did I wake you?”

“Yeah,” I mumbled.

“Wow. Must’ve been a late night.”

I glanced at the clock. It was almost ten. Isaac would be here to pick me up in an hour for the lake.

“So,” Mom continued. “I got your message. You wanted to talk with me about something?”

There were a million things we needed to talk about but I didn’t have time to get into all of them right then. So I chose one question. “Do you know where Dad is?”

“Grandma said you’d been asking a lot of questions about him. Why?”

“Because he’s my dad. I have a right to know about him.”

“Yes, but why now? Is Grandma encouraging this?”

“This has nothing to do with Grandma, okay. It has to do with me. I want to know the truth. Is he dead?”

“No. Gosh, why would you think that?”

“Are you sure?”

“Kenzie, what’s gotten into you?”

“Well, that would certainly explain why he’s never gotten in contact with me.”

“Believe me, he’s not dead.”

“Well, then where is he? Why hasn’t he contacted me?”

“I don’t know, Kenzie.”

“It’s because of you, isn’t it? You pushed him away. You didn’t want him in my life.”

“That’s not true. You don’t know anything about it.”

“Whose fault is that?”

Silence.

“Mom? You still there?”

“I don’t want to fight with you, Kenzie. I’ll talk to you later.” The line went dead.

I slammed the phone down so hard my fingers stung. Tears pricked my eyes and I blinked them back. It was always the same with her. She was never going to tell me the truth. All the more reason I had to find out on my own. Putting all thoughts of Mom aside, I hopped out of bed and raced to the bathroom to take a shower.

“You didn’t tell me that the friends we were going boating with was your youth pastor and his wife,” I whispered to Isaac once we’d settled on the boat.

Isaac smiled, a gleam in his eye. “Would it have made a difference?”

I shook my head.

“Don and Sandy are cool. You’ll see.”

The boat idled out into the water. The warm sun beat down on my back, the scent of fish wafted under my nose. Waves lapped against the side of the boat, which rocked gently. My gaze swept the vast expanse of dark water, the clear blue sky. Isaac’s arm came around my shoulder and hovered like a butterfly before landing tentatively. My heart flipped in my chest and my face warmed. Sandy leaned over Don’s shoulder speaking in his ear as he drove, her short brown hair fanning out behind her head. I found myself fantasizing about Isaac and me like that, and was glad Isaac couldn’t read my thoughts like Rhiannon could.

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