Shadows of Green & Gold 3_A contemporary young adult fantasy suspense by Jo Holloway

Author:Jo Holloway [Holloway, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: animal, academy, teen, Young Adult, Mystery, fantasy creature, Contemporary, YA
Publisher: Jo Holloway Books
Published: 2019-12-16T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Focus

BEHIND CARA, JORY EXHALED with a long hiss. Wes cocked his head to one side, staring at her for a moment. Then he looked back to Jory with a raised eyebrow. Rhys stared blankly ahead, his chest rising and falling a bit too quickly.

“We’re helping this jackwagon now?” Jory stepped close beside her again, breathing the words beside her ear as he touched her arm to steer her away.

“We’re helping Olivia,” she replied. She stood her ground.

“Liv.” Rhys raised his face to meet her eyes again, and his expression softened. “She hates Olivia. It’s Liv.”

There went the flip in her chest again, with a rush of warmth at his obvious affection for his sister. She finally understood the value of the Libby alias in protecting Olivia’s identity from visitors and patients. No one would hear the difference between Lib and Liv if her family slipped. Liv was a lucky girl to have a brother who cared so deeply, no matter how misguided he might be. What would it feel like to have someone care that way about her? What would it feel like to have Rhys care . . .?

Focus, Cara.

She brought her thoughts back to his sister. She looked at everything he’d done, even the terrible things, for the sake of Liv. It had all been to save his sister. They had to find a way. If she only knew how they were going to help. After all, the ghostly echoes still rang in her mind.

There’s nothing we can do to help Olivia. Well, screw that. She was doing it anyway.

“So does that mean you’ll let us help Liv?” she asked.

Rhys turned his attention to the friends standing on either side of her. His eyes scanned back and forth.

“I’d be crazy to trust you,” he said.

Jory tensed beside her, and Cara reached a hand out to calm him. She kept her eyes on Rhys. Jory exhaled under her hand and stayed quiet. Wes understood what she wanted and stood still. She waited for Rhys to break the silence again.

“What? I would. You’re still the people who broke into my house. You practically broke in here today, coming in uninvited.” He looked at Wes, who just raised one shoulder as if to ask what else he could have done. He turned to Jory, who still wore a scowl that didn’t suit him at all. “You assaulted me. I don’t even know why I haven’t called the police.” Finally, his gaze landed on her. “And you . . . Why would I trust any of you?”

“Because you’re out of options.” Wes used his calmest voice, low and quiet. It had the desired effect, the way Wes’s logic often did.

Rhys’s shoulders dropped. “Yeah. I guess I am. Can you actually help?”

“We’ll figure something out,” Cara said. Wes shot her a side-eyed glance, which she ignored.

She turned into Jory, using her hand to start him moving. He still looked like he might want to punch Rhys again. “Let’s go,” she whispered.

“We still can’t,” Wes said, his voice a little firmer now.

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