The Wild (Book Four The Hayle Coven Novels) by Patti Larsen

Author:Patti Larsen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ya demons, ya romance, ya witches, ya paranormal, ya magic
Publisher: Patti Larsen

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Chapter Eighteen

The last day of school for the year was supposed to be fun. Just a half day where some teachers showed movies and the cafeteria made real pizza instead of the cardboard they usually served.

Not so much this year. I should have been enjoying myself. I’d made it through a whole year with friends and everything. I was even pretty sure I’d passed my courses despite all the interruptions in my life in the last nine months. For the first time ever, the last day of school was going to be as fun for me as I always imagined it was for everyone else.

Maybe if my friends weren’t totally bummed out over Pain. Or if the whole town, heck the whole eastern seaboard, wasn’t about to be demolished by a ‘hurricane’. It was all everyone talked about. Not their plans for the summer or what their marks were like, but just the stupid storm.

It grated on my nerves. Mostly because I moved past being able to worry about everyone else and focused on my family. I could barely look at my friends without a spike of fear going through me. Made for a very pleasant morning, let me tell you.

So why did I go? And stay for that matter? Because I was out of the house. And not alone. It was the better of two awful choices.

Blood was the worst of the group. Simon and Beth may have been worried about the storm, but he pined for his girlfriend.

I finally risked it and asked how she was.

He offered one of his characteristic Goth shrugs. “Her mom put her back in treatment,” he said. He made it sound like she’d been sent to prison. “She’s a mess, you know? But it’s worse for her, being in there.”

“We should go visit her.” We were free now anyway and I needed an excuse to see her. This was perfect.

Blood immediately perked. “She’d totally take that in.”

“I can’t,” Beth said. “I’m sorry, but we’re leaving as soon as I get home.”

Right. Auntie in St. Louis.

Simon’s head bobbed. “Me either. Mom and Dad decided we’d go on vacation early because of the weather.”

Blood nodded slowly. “Completely understand.”

Alison shook her head at me, smile strained. “We can’t either, remember? We’re leaving too.”

Wow, that was selfish. How long would it take us to stop at the hospital and check on Pain? “I want to go.”

Her face scrunched into a momentary scowl. She hooked my arm and led me a short distance from the others while Blood’s hopeful look sank.

“I’m not going.” It came out of her in a harsh whisper. “Forget it.”

I jerked my arm free. “Well, that’s very sweet of you,” I shot back. “She’s our friend, Al.”

Her lips were almost white as her mouth thinned out, whole face pale except for two bright pink spots on her cheeks. “I just can’t.” She shuddered slightly. “Syd, please. I can’t.”

“Because of Suzanne?” Yes, that had been traumatic, I got it. But it was Pain we were talking about.

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