The Garden of Eve by K. L. Going

Author:K. L. Going
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“She stared upward as if she were seeing something very beautiful, only Rodney saw nothing. Then she walked forward, and he called to her, but in a blink she had disappeared and no one has seen her since.”

Alex had the apple poised at his mouth.

“Wait!” Evie called.

“Why?” he asked. “I’ve already got it down.”

Evie thought of all the stories Mom had read her as a child. Stories with poisoned apples and lies that tricked human beings into disastrous mistakes. She thought of the lost Eve and the warning on the tomb. Which choice was she supposed to make?

Then she thought of Father.

What if she never came back and he always searched for her, just like Rodney had searched for his sister? Or what if Father was happier without her because then he could work outside every day uninterrupted?

Suddenly it wasn’t comfortably cool anymore; it was hot. Too hot.

Evie clenched her fists tight.

“I don’t know if I can do it,” she said, tears forming in her eyes.

Alex just smiled from his perch in the tree.

“But I can,” he said.

Then he lifted the apple to his lips and took a bite.

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