Beckoners by Carrie Mac

Author:Carrie Mac
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV000000
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2007-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

the dungeon

For days, Zoe dreamt of thin ice. She dreamt Mill Lake was frozen, and she was stranded in the middle, ice cracking around her, chunks tipping into the water, until she was left teetering on a small wedge; and then that too slipped under the water, and so did she, falling and falling and never reaching the bottom. She told Alice about the dreams, but Alice wasn’t really listening.

“Maybe you’re afraid of something,” was all she said, eyes on the phone, waiting for another call she’d take in her bedroom, door closed.

“You could say that.” Zoe tried to laugh.

“You can handle it. What is it? A test? Term project?”

“No, it’s nothing like that. It’s just that—”

The phone rang.

“Let it ring.” Alice sprinted up the stairs. “I’ll get it in my room.”

Zoe pretended she didn’t hear her. She picked up the phone.

“Hello?”

“Hi, babe.” It was a man’s voice. “How you doing?” He sounded like a smoker.

Alice cut in from the upstairs phone. “Put down the phone, Zoe.”

“I just want to know who—”

“Hang up, now.”

Zoe set down the phone and fought the urge to sneak up the stairs to try to listen at the bedroom door. It seemed that her mom’s maternal instinct only ever kicked in when it suited her lately. Just the week before Zoe had tried listening with a glass against the door. All she could hear was mumble-mumble this, and mumble-mumble that, and the occasional full-on laugh Alice used whenever she was on the make. Zoe listened for only a moment before Alice flung open the door and snatched away the glass.

“You want me to start eavesdropping on your private calls? Right, I didn’t think so. I catch you one more time and I’m taking away your phone privileges.”

Not that that would’ve mattered. There was no one Zoe wanted to call, and no one who would call her besides one of the Beckoners, who she’d rather never hear from again as long as she lived.

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