Wish by Carina Cook

Author:Carina Cook [Cook, Carina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-22T16:00:00+00:00

By the time Beef arrived ten minutes later, Audra had put together a nice little impromptu meal. She might not have been much of a cook, but she knew how to entertain. She’d put some ambient music on Pandora and opened all the windows to let in the breeze. Chilled glasses awaited the beer, alongside a plate of cheese, crackers, fancy cured meats, and pickles. All she needed to do was fire up the hot dogs, and they’d have a nice meal going.

All the prep gave her something to focus on, because now she was nervous. Funny how the missing lamp made her concerned, but she felt completely confident in Citrine’s ability to keep an eye on Chad in a way that she could never do. So the thought of the lamp wasn’t half as nerve-wracking as the thought of telling her best friend that she’d been hiding a big secret from him all these years, and she could actually control the elements. What would he say? She was fully ready to demonstrate—she’d gotten out some candles, and she could make a mini rain storm over the sink, if she needed to—but what if he thought she was a freak? What if he was too afraid to be her friend anymore? She knew he wasn’t the kind of person to easily abandon friends, but once the worry caught hold of her, she couldn’t shake it.

By the time he knocked, she was trembling with nerves. She opened the door and tried to smile casually, but his expression was as bleak as hers. Suddenly, all of the pickles and beer seemed ridiculous, but she gestured toward the table anyway, hoping he didn’t notice how badly her hand shook as she did it. But of course he did. He shot a significant look at her fingers, shook his head, and fished one of the beers out of the ice.

“Something tells me I’m going to need this,” he muttered.

“Me too.”

Audra held out her hand, and he poured her a glass and handed it over before helping himself. They took their first few drinks in silence, and then he set his glass on a coaster.

“Can you tell me what’s going on?” he asked. “It’s rude, I know, but the suspense is killing me. I’d like to get it over with so I can say, ‘Oh, that’s all. I knew that,’ and then you can be all, ‘Yeah, but I was worried,’ and then we can laugh at it like we’re in a cheesy sitcom.”

“I’d be surprised if you knew this one already,” she said. “It’s a pretty big secret.”

“A man can dream.”

“Yeah.” She took in and let out a shaky breath. Getting it over with sounded like a great idea, but now that she was here, she had no idea what to say. After a moment to gather her thoughts, she launched in. “I can control the elements. I can light fires with my mind. I can make it rain. I can call up sandstorms. That one time that we had that freak hailstorm on the way to Jacey Smith’s party? That was me.

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