The Liberty Box Trilogy by C A Gray

Author:C A Gray [Gray, C A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wanderlust Publishing
Published: 2017-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

Charlie lived on the same street as my parents, though, so I couldn’t get to him without passing by my parents’ home. I had hoped to get him alone, which would give me only one person to convince, rather than three. Unfortunately, my mom was standing on her front lawn when I passed by. She wasn’t doing anything—it looked like she was waiting for me.

“Kathryn?” she squeaked, even though I was on the other side of the street with my head down, in full disguise. “Kathryn!” She ran toward me with arms outstretched, and a frantic expression. “Nancy just sent a comm and said she thought you might be headed over…”

She threw her arms around me. My dad came out of the house behind her, and broke into a run.

“Katie!” he cried. “We just heard… oh, my goodness, Katie, we’ve been so worried about you—”

I started to panic. This was way too public.

“We—have to get to Charlie’s,” I cut them off. Anywhere but the street.

“We already told him to come over as soon as Nancy messaged us. He should be here any minute—oh!”

Charlie rounded the corner just then, but he didn’t appear to be in any particular hurry, his hands stuffed in his pockets as he strolled along.

“So. The prodigal returns,” he called out to me. I couldn’t read his tone, but it wasn’t complimentary. Even from a distance, I could see that he was glaring at me. My heart sank. I needed him to give me a chance, at least.

My mother squeaked, “Oh, honey, we heard about Will—so dreadful! To think all this time he’s been an EOS, I never would have thought it of him…” she trailed off, using the Enemy of State acronym that I so often used on broadcast. “Will’s death would have been bad enough, but the idea that he was also an EOS is just… too much to bear! And when you disappeared around the same time, the speculation was that maybe you, too…” she broke off, her voice a tremor.

“Come on inside, baby,” my dad slung an arm around my shoulders and pulled me toward the open front door, “we’ll let the agents know you’re here and then—”

“No! You can’t! Just, please, let me explain…” I tried to run toward the open front door, desperate to get out of the street, but I couldn’t disentangle myself from them. Instead, I half-ran, half-dragged them back inside.

I couldn’t understand why they were acting like this. They were touching me… yet neither of my parents seemed the least bit affected by the signal disruptor. I looked at Charlie, though, and noticed for the first time that his insolent expression had vanished. Instead, he watched me intently, and kept stepping a few paces away from me, then a few paces toward me, and then a few paces away again. With each rotation, he looked around the living room we both knew so well, wide-eyed.

“What’s going on, Kate?” Charlie demanded.

I could have crumpled with relief. I pulled the jammer out of my pocket and held it up.

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