The Mummy by Barbara Steiner

Author:Barbara Steiner
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781497628601
Publisher: Open Road Media

Chapter 12

Lana ran the rest of the way home, not caring if someone was watching, laughing at her. By the time she closed the front door and leaned on it, catching her breath, she felt a knot of anger form in her stomach and icy tremors in her sweaty body.

Seti meowed to let her know she was still clutching him tightly. He hadn’t complained once about bumping along in her arms as she ran.

“What can I do, Seti, what can I do?” she whispered as she set him on the floor.

“What can you do about what?” She didn’t realize her mother was standing close enough to hear her.

“Oh, nothing, Mom. Nothing. I have so much to do to keep up with school and this job. It’s worth it, though, so don’t think I’m complaining. Just trying to decide what to do first.”

“Lana, you’ve always worked harder for what you want than any kid I know. I’m proud of you. Do you know that? I hardly ever remember to say it.” Her mother pulled her close and hugged her. Lana hugged back, enjoying becoming a little girl and having her mother comfort her.

“Thanks, Mom. I have a good role model. You worked really hard after Dad died to keep things together, to buy this house. I love you.”

“I love you, too, Sweetie. Hungry?”

“Of course. What’s for dinner?” Lana wasn’t sure she could choke down any food, but when she smelled the vegetarian pizza that was one of her mother’s tastiest concoctions, she changed her mind. She pushed away the whispering—her fear, her anger. She washed her hands at the kitchen sink, sank into a chair, and let her mother wait on her.

“Why don’t you take one of the new mysteries I brought home from the library, go to bed early, and read?” Mrs. Richardson had watched Lana eat and now sat at the table with her, drinking a cup of coffee. “Take your mind entirely off Egypt. Scare yourself while safely in your bed.”

Lana had enough of a mystery on her hands without taking on someone else’s plot. And she certainly didn’t need to scare herself further. But maybe it would be distracting. And the safety of her bed sounded wonderful.

Seti was perfectly willing to go to bed early. He curled into the folds of the fluffy comforter that Lana pulled up almost to her chin. For a few minutes he purred, then he slept so deeply he stopped making any sound.

About nine-thirty, when the main character in Lana’s book had gone into an old house by herself — silly woman — Seti woke and leaped off the bed. He jumped onto the windowsill and stared out into the darkness.

“See anything?” Lana asked.

Meow, Seti replied. Then he wiped at the window pane with his paw. Meow.

“I was going to keep that window closed, Seti. Not that it does any good. You’d find a way to get out.

Seti blinked and patted the window again.

“You have a box downstairs.”

Seti patted the window a third time.

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