Time Travel for Love and Profit by Sarah Lariviere

Author:Sarah Lariviere [Lariviere, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780593174227
Google: RTfPDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2021-01-26T00:00:00+00:00

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After school, I slipped into the front seat of the car, buckled the screwy seat belt and slammed the door.

“How are you feeling, sugar bun?” asked Mom.

“Slightly better,” I said.

“Yeah?” she said, sounding hopeful.

I did feel better, in a way. It helped knowing that a few people cared that I was sad, even if I’d given them no reason to. Airika especially. That girl was a battering ram of niceness.

And I felt energized about finally getting to work on Dirk Angus 10.0. All day I’d heard Death challenging me, purring, Your only option is to give in to me. Everybody does, eventually, like some know-it-all cat—and it was true, in a way. The word “deadline” did contain the word “dead.” But the universe and I both knew something. Time was a joke, and I was writing the punch line. Death was nothing more than a math problem, baby. A math problem I was born to solve.

I pulled down the sun visor to check myself in the mirror and see if I was starting to resemble a sci-fi heroine. Because I was thinking up some really good lines.

“Drop me off at the bookshop, please,” I said.

“Not today, hon,” said Mom. “You and I have a date with the mall.”

“The mall?! Why?” I asked.

“You need a black dress for tomorrow.”

I shuddered. It had been years since I’d been to the mall.

Death, I was ready to battle. The mall, I felt far less sure about.

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