The Devil_Cards of Love by Ashley Jade

Author:Ashley Jade [Jade, Ashley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-13T05:00:00+00:00

And just like that, the organ in my chest takes flight. Cain was right…everything I wanted was here all along. All I had to do was reach out and take it.

Chapter 18

Cain

Past…

“There’s a fortune teller over there,” Julia squeals as we enter the school gymnasium for the spring fling. “Can we?”

It’s all I can do not to roll my eyes. “Sure.”

She reaches for my hand. “We’re gonna have so much fun tonight.”

Considering it’s our third date in two weeks and the only thing that’s been in her mouth are those half chewed pens of hers…I doubt it.

Plastering a smile on my face, I take her hand and walk over.

My smile falls when the fortune teller takes off her masquerade mask.

“Hi, Mrs. Miller.”

She doesn’t miss a beat. “Hi, guys. Are you kids having fun?”

“We just got here,” Julia answers, gesturing to the masquerade mask they handed her at the door. “I was hoping you could give me a reading.”

“Sure. Both of you, or—”

“Just her,” I say tersely. “I don’t believe in this crap. There’s no way a simple card can predict the future.”

Julia frowns. “Yeah, you’re right. This is stupid—”

“My grandmother used to say tarot cards don’t predict your future, they simply hold up a mirror to your subconscious.”

Julia’s mouth drops open. “Your grandmother was a fortune teller too?”

I look up at the ceiling. “Mrs. Miller isn’t a fortune teller, Julia. She’s just a teacher chaperoning a dance.”

She also happens to give one hell of a blow job.

Mrs. Miller points to her cards. “Actually, these were my grandmother’s cards. She used to do this for a living.”

“What a noble profession.”

Mrs. Miller turns to Julia. “Don’t let this negative nelly talk you out of it, it can be very enlightening.”

Julia bites her lip, her stare ping-ponging between us. “I don’t know.”

“Do it.” I shrug. “I think it’s bullshit, but it’s obvious you want to. Therefore, you should.”

Her eyes gleam. “Okay. Do I have to do anything?”

Mrs. Miller hands her the deck of cards. “Shuffle these and concentrate on what you’d like the universe to tell you.”

Out of the corner of my eye, I spot my brother talking with his friends. Or rather, they’re all kissing his ass and congratulating him for the millionth time on getting a full ride to Harvard.

Jealousy snakes up my spine. I turned in my application two weeks before he did, and I still haven’t heard back.

I wasn’t worried until a few days ago when my friends on the debate team mentioned they all heard from their first and second choice schools.

Unlike them, I have no second choice. Harvard is it. It’s where my father and all his friends went.

I’ll never be able to live it down if my brother gets accepted, and I don’t.

“Oh my God, that was so awesome,” Julia screeches beside me, bringing me out of my thoughts. “I got the three of pentacles for my future and Mrs. Miller says that’s a sign of great things ahead.” She claps her hands. “She’s right because I got my acceptance letter from Dartmouth today.

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