Winter Falls (Twin Willows Trilogy) by Nicole Maggi

Author:Nicole Maggi [Maggi, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781605426860
Publisher: Medallion Media Group
Published: 2014-12-22T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

The Clan

“What are you doing in here?”

I whirled around.

Jonah stood just outside the doorway as though an invisible barrier prevented him from going in.

I backed away from the wall, still burning with the knowledge I had just discovered from the blueprint. “S-sorry.” I hurried toward him, my brain spinning to come up with a good excuse. “I thought—” I swallowed. “Maybe there was something in here that might help my presentation. You know, the one for government class.”

Jonah reached out to me without stepping inside the room. I took his hand, and he pulled me into the hallway. His hand was cold. “We’re not allowed in that room.”

“I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have gone in there.”

“I don’t care,” Jonah said. “It’s just a good thing I found you and not my dad.”

“I’m sorry,” I said again. “I was just curious.”

He leaned in so close to me that our noses touched. “You know what they say about curiosity.” He nibbled my lips.

I pulled back.

“What’s wrong?”

“N-nothing. I should really be getting home.”

“I’ll walk you.”

“No.”

Jonah looked at me, his brow creased.

I took a deep breath, hoping he wouldn’t notice how shaky it was. “I mean, my mom is probably the last person you want to see, and it smells like dinner is almost ready.”

“Okay, but don’t complain to me that chivalry is dead.” He raised my hand to his mouth and kissed it. “My lady.”

“You’re a nerd,” I said.

He laughed and led me to the kitchen.

I thanked his mom and grabbed my jacket from the coatrack by the door, my nerves fighting to stay inside my skin.

Jonah walked me out onto the front porch. As soon as we were out of his mom’s sight, he pulled me against him, one hand under my jacket, the other buried deep in my hair. “Meet me tonight. At the graveyard on our bench.”

“I’ll try.” My brain was on fire to get home and find Heath, tell him what I had found. But my body melted into Jonah as he kissed the breath out of me.

At last he drew back. “Sure you don’t want me to walk you home?”

“I’m sure.” I gave him a watery smile and one last quick kiss. “I’ll call you later,” I said and ran to the top of the driveway before he could stall me again. When I turned around, he was still on the porch, watching me.

At the end of his street, I bolted into a run. My backpack flopped painfully against my spine, but I didn’t slow down. By the time I reached the farm I was sure I could give the track team a run for their money.

Heath’s truck was in the driveway. Don’t be in the Cave, I prayed; there was no way I could ask to talk to him privately in front of Lidia without raising her suspicion. But just as I skidded around the back of the house, the barn door banged open, and Heath walked out into the dying sunlight.

“I have to talk to you—it’s really important,” I gasped, bending over a little to ease a crick in my side.

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