Wildfire Griffin by Zoe Chant

Author:Zoe Chant [Chant, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

“Rory, there’s been something I’ve been wanting to tell you.” Edith took a deep breath, lifting her chin. “I think that I’m falling in love with you.”

She studied her reflection in the mirror critically.

She groaned, hiding her face in her hands. “Now I look like I’m telling him I ran over his dog,” she said out loud to the empty bathroom. “He’s going to think I don’t want to be in love with him.”

No matter how she practiced, she couldn’t get her expression right. Widening her eyes in a winsome fashion had just made her look like a brain-damaged deer. Smiling had given the impression that she was on class-A drugs. Not smiling had turned out to be even worse. She’d briefly tried on the Instagram duckface pout, and had immediately vowed never to do so again.

She pushed her hair back, scowling. She rearranged her face one last time, trying to strike that perfect balance between serious and sultry.

“Rory, I think I’m falling in love with you,” she declaimed to the mirror. “And now I will club you over the head and drag you back to my sex dungeon. Gaaaaaah. Why is this so hard?”

She wished she could confess her feelings via text. But she knew it was rude to end a relationship over the phone. It was probably even ruder to try to start one that way.

It would have been easier if they were in fourth grade. She could have just passed him a note in class: I LIKE YOU DO YOU LIKE ME Y/N?

She stuck her tongue out at herself, giving up. She’d just have to wing it. Maybe she could persuade him to come out on a late-night walk, where the darkness would hide her face. Or, even better, dive into a bush and make her confession while completely hidden.

She left the bathroom, emerging into the small corridor that joined her and Blaise’s rooms. She hadn’t heard Blaise come back into the cabin yet, but she knocked on her closed door just in case.

“Blaise?” she called. “I’m going to dinner. Are you in there?”

Silence answered her. Frowning, Edith checked the time on her watch. Blaise and the others should have been back an hour ago. She couldn’t imagine what they could be doing out in the woods for so long. Maybe they’d gone straight to the mess hall.

Her stomach growled at the thought of food. Three hours of daily physical training followed by hikes, briefings, tool practice and equipment checks burned a lot of calories. She would have been embarrassed about how much she wolfed down every meal, except that everyone else on A-squad ate at least twice as much. Even Joe usually polished off three helpings, no matter how he grumbled about the hired cook’s unadventurous seasoning.

She headed for the mess hall, the setting sun slanting low through the trees. Most evenings, people liked to eat outside—even a room as big as the hall was cramped for the whole crew. Not to mention that at the end of a long day, twenty tired firefighters made for a powerful aroma in an enclosed space.

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