The Forest Gods' Fight by Alexandria Hook

Author:Alexandria Hook [Alexandria, Hook]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing

Chapter 8

FIRE AWAY

Alec and I bounded up the porch steps together and threw open the screen door, racing inside my house without a second thought. We passed by the living room and turned the sharp corner into the kitchen, but then in complete shock, I stopped dead in my tracks and Alec almost smacked right into me. Our jaws immediately dropped to the floor. Oops, I thought helplessly as I gulped and exchanged horrified glances with the wide-eyed Alec. At that moment, I would have rather come face-to-face with an undead warrior. Or five.

“Well, aren’t you going to say hello?” my father asked gruffly, raising his bushy eyebrows at Alec and me.

To be fair, Alec still had a white bandage loosely wrapped around his left forearm from two nights earlier (not to mention the various other scars we shared), so we probably looked pretty suspicious. Therefore, my father took his time studying Alec very closely as he took a long sip of beer from the near-empty bottle. That’s right; if you thought lemonade in the morning was weird, try beer—no, wait. Whatever you do, don’t try beer.

“Oh, hi, Dad. I didn’t expect to see you here. We’re just going to go now.” I started backing out of the room slowly, but Alec was frozen in place, still staring blankly at the beer bottle in my father’s hand. When I forcefully elbowed him in the gut, Alec mumbled some profanities under his breath before following my lead, turning around to race out of the front door just as quickly as we had come in.

“Wait,” my father ordered firmly. I just sighed, exchanging worried glances with Alec as he and I reluctantly backed up into the kitchen again. “Ashley, do you want to tell me who this is?” With his free hand, my grumpy dad gestured to Alec, who then looked at me, unsure of what to do next.

“No, not particularly,” I responded truthfully, crossing my arms over my chest. My dad sighed. Not at all surprised by my defiance, Alec lowered his head and hid a smirk.

“So where’s your car? It wasn’t in the driveway,” I changed the subject suddenly, wondering what my father was still doing at the house. He did have a job, after all.

“My car is in the shop. Now, let’s try this again. Tell me who this boy is or you’re grounded for the rest of summer.”

Well, that gave me absolutely no choice at all.

“This is Alec,” I started slowly, and my father looked at me expectantly, waiting for further explanation. To be honest, I had never brought anyone home with me besides the boys of the Monster Watch and occasionally one of the goddesses, thus, I had never been questioned by my father for anything like this, for anything so nonchalantly meaningful.

When I looked back to Alec, my breath caught in my throat and I froze, at a loss for words for the first time in ages. He knew as well as I did that we

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