Abandon Book 3: Awaken by Meg Cabot

Author:Meg Cabot
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Another one, who had his throat pierced through,

And nose cut off close underneath the brows,

And had no longer but a single ear . . .

DANTE AlighiEri, Inferno, Canto XXViii

Seth lowered the cup from which he’d just sipped, his face

never changing expression. But i saw a few drops of beer spill

out onto his black polo shirt.

“i don’t know what you’re talking about,” he said. “But you

better remember who i am, little girl. No one messes with a

rector and gets away with it.”

i had to laugh. What had he thought, exactly, encouraging me

to sit down with him? That i’d be too intimidated by his good

looks and social position to mention it? Or had he planned on

raising the subject himself and making some kind of threat, and

i’d beaten him to it?

if so, it had been a dumb miscalculation on his part.

“You do know what i’m talking about, Seth,” i said. “i’m sure

your father’s shown you the security tape by now, so you know

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my friends and i got Alex out. he’s alive, and he’ll be testifying

against you . . . for all of it, not only your trying to kill him.”

Anyone looking at us would have thought we were having a

perfectly friendly conversation. We were leaning close together.

Even though there were so many people in the room, laughing

and screaming and dancing, and the music was playing so loudly,

it was almost as if the two of us were alone in our own romantic

little bubble.

Except there was nothing romantic about what we were

discussing.

“You know what’s going to happen now,” i went on. “You’ll be

arrested for attempted murder. You’re eighteen, so you’ll be tried

as an adult, like my uncle Chris was twenty years ago, when he

took the blame for that drug run your dad sent him on. it’s nice

we’re keeping it all in the family, isn’t it?” i smiled at him pleasantly. “So i guess instead of saying, ‘Aw, poor Farah,’ we should

be saying, ‘Aw, poor Seth.’ right?”

i had to hand it to him: he covered pretty well. he didn’t even

blink when a streak of lightning lit up the sky outside so bril-

liantly, it looked bright as noon.

“Seriously,” he said. “i don’t know what you’re talking about.

But i do know if you ever repeat any of what you just said, my

family’s attorneys will slap a slander suit against you so fast, you won’t know what hit you. i don’t care how much money your

father has.”

“really?” i couldn’t have sounded less impressed. “Did you

ever consider that if there’s a tape of us getting Alex out of that coffin, there’s also a tape of you putting him in there, Seth?”

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he did blink, then. But only once.

“listen, you crazy whip-carrying bitch. Your cousin is dead, so

he’s not testifying about shit,” he said. “And even if you did have a copy of that tape, there’s nothing on it. We checked. lightning

must have fritzed out the cameras or something . . .”

i laughed again as his voice trailed off, and he realized his

mistake.

“i thought you didn’t know what i was talking about,” i said.

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