A Girl From Forever (The Forever Institute series Book 1) by Yolanda McCarthy

Author:Yolanda McCarthy [McCarthy, Yolanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Our words bounce around the room that was mine, for a day.

“She got away. I’m so sorry.” My voice is flat as I absorb how badly I’ve let Anna and Rehan down. “she’ll tell Forever about this location. You shouldn’t stay here.” Here in this beautiful old cottage where Anna has clearly lived for many years and that, now I know I have to leave it, I love, too. The messy living room with its cushions and piles of books. The splashes of texture in the paintings. The garden where weeds are flowers. The lake view from my window, which I’ve barely looked at yet. I pick up the pink scarf that Anna gave me, and shake broken glass from it.

Anna nods. “We’ll go somewhere safer. Don’t worry about it.”

Rehan agrees, “We should go now, at least from the immediate area.”

How can I tell them that Lia can lead Forever to me whenever she likes? And to anyone with me. I need to keep moving, she may know where I am, but she doesn’t know where I’m going. Which needs to be far, far away.

“You’re not safe with me.” My voice sounds funny, different. “Lia told me that she can find me. It’s part of her talent.”

They look at me like I’m insane. Then my mother says gently “I won’t be parted from you again.”

“No way am I heading off now,” adds Rehan. “She surprised me, but I won’t be so easy next time.”

They’re being kind. That makes it so much harder.

We argue as we pack our bags, adding food and bottles of water to the piles of clothes. Anna gives me an old backpack and claims to be excited about the opportunity to finally use her musty camping gear. It’s November. She’s pretending to want to camp in November, when even the zip tags on her backpacks are clogged with rust. I can feel the old walls of this house glaring at me, blaming me for destroying their sanctuary.

Rehan is all plans and maps, urging us on. He’s back in his element now, the planner, the rebel, muttering about pre-emptive attacks and KHH resources.

They can’t come with me. They can’t possibly come with me.

I’m hollow.

Forever wants me back, and I haven’t absorbed yet what that means. But Lia won’t come alone next time. I turn over the things she said, as my fingers fold cloth and my lungs take short, painful, puffs of air.

I pack, picturing Arlo’s haunted face staring at me through the garden. Forever is using my friends to hunt Vols. Not KHH, Forever know everything about KHH already, know every safe house, probably track every phone. Hunting ordinary Vols, wiping them out before the rest of the world ever hears of them. That’s why the museum guard and Anna had never heard of Vols. Forever wants to erase them, to use Vol like me and Lia to wipe out other Vol. Why?

I bite my lip until it tastes of metal.

Forever wants me back, but not before it’s used my disappearance to turn my friends into drugged assassins.

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