Witch Got Your Tongue by Livia J. Washburn

Author:Livia J. Washburn [Washburn, Livia J.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2001-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

I was driving back to the apartment with the cat on the front seat beside me before it occurred to me to wonder how my roommates would feel about somebody else moving in, even somebody as fuzzy and cute as the calico. The apartment didn’t have a no-pets rule, as far as I knew, but the lease, like the phone, was in Taylor’s name so I wasn’t sure. I hoped the management wouldn’t give us any trouble. It wasn’t like I was trying to move in a whole menagerie.

I wasn’t going to take her to the animal shelter, though. If worst came to worst, I’d see if my parents would take her in, at least temporarily.

I started thinking then about what else I needed to do. Maybe I could find out something about Angela Vandermeer on the Internet. I’m no hacker or anything like that, but these days you don’t have to be to uncover info about people.

I knew I wasn’t going to feel comfortable until I found out why she’d attacked me like that. As long as she was on the loose, there was always a chance she might try to come after me again, now that she knew I was interested in her.

On reflection, trying to find her might not have been the smartest thing I’d ever done.

Getting on the computer and poking around in Angela’s life was going to have to wait, though, because when I pulled into the apartment complex’s parking lot, the first thing I saw was Donovan’s Jeep, with him leaning against the back of it.

He straightened and came toward me with a smile on his face as I parked. I got out, hauling the cat along with me, and he stopped.

“Who’s this?” he asked.

“I’m, uh, sort of l-looking after her . . . for a friend.”

Even if the cat belonged to Angela, that witch was no friend of mine. But that was ’way too complicated to try to explain to Donovan.

“Well, she’s a cutie, I guess. I’ve never been much of a cat person.”

He had no way of knowing that he was echoing my own thoughts. I said, “What are you doing here?”

He grinned. “No ‘It’s wonderful to see you again, Donovan’?”

After the battle with Angela, I wasn’t in much of a mood for banter, but he was hard to resist. “It actually is w-wonderful to see you again,” I said, “but what are you doing here?”

“Won’t allow yourself to be distracted. I like that in a woman. Come to think of it, I like just about everything about you, Aren.” He held up a hand to stop me when I opened my mouth to say something. “All right, I’ll stop flirting. The truth is, I’m here because I wanted to check on you. I got your message saying that you were all right, but I found myself wanting to see that with my own eyes.”

“I’m a little s-sore,” I admitted – more so since Angela had punched me – but Donovan didn’t need to know about that.

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