Time Stoppers by Carrie Jones

Author:Carrie Jones [Jones, Carrie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781619638624
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-03-02T16:00:00+00:00

17

The Letter

Jamie was brushing his teeth and stopped midstroke when he heard voices just outside the bathroom door.

“She will never forgive us for not finding her sooner.”

“We thought he had taken her. We believed that she was dead or lost in the Badlands.”

“You know that, and I know that. But she does not. She will feel abandoned. In my heart of all hearts, that just breaks me. She must never think that we abandoned her, that we just let her go.”

They had to be talking about Annie. Jamie slowly turned the cold-water faucet off, trying not to make noise. He wanted to keep listening to the voices. One of them had to be Miss Cornelia, and the other? He wasn’t sure … Maybe the mayor?

“And the boy?”

“He seems …”

“Of good character?”

“Exactly.”

“But how do you know that he won’t—”

“Turn troll? I do not know. But I have a feeling. Please trust me on this.”

“You ask me to trust you about everything, Cornelia. I do, and see what happens? We had lost Annie for years when she could have been right here, developing her power.”

The old woman’s voice broke. “Yes, but we thought she had died. We thought that the beast had—”

“We thought wrong then, didn’t we? How do we know that we aren’t thinking wrong again?”

They must have moved because Jamie didn’t hear Miss Cornelia’s answer to the man’s convoluted question. Jamie’s heart flip-flopped all around his chest. They’d been talking about Annie, but about him, too. He knew it as soon as he heard the word “troll.” Miss Cornelia didn’t think he’d turn, but the man she was talking to obviously had his doubts.

“Never,” Jamie vowed in a half whisper. “I will never turn troll.”

He capped the toothpaste tube and looked into the mirror, where a note was now taped to the glass.

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