Defiance In Green & Gold: YA contemporary fantasy (The Immortal Voices: Green & Gold Book 5) by Jo Holloway

Author:Jo Holloway [Holloway, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: YA fantasy
Publisher: Jo Holloway Books
Published: 2021-11-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

HALFWAY THROUGH THE movie, Jenner lifted his head and pricked his ears. Cara caught a faint click instead of the usual bang of the front door.

“Joshua has left,” Jenyx said.

“He left?” She hit pause and scooted forward. She jumped off her bed and opened her door, ignoring Wes’s curious look while she checked the hall. At the stairs, she couldn’t spot her mom in the living room, so she hurried down. “Mom?”

“Down here.” Her mom’s voice drifted from her basement office.

“Is everything okay? Where did Josh go?”

“Everything’s fine. He went to pick up my prescription and a few things for baking. He said he would be fast.”

“Oh, okay. Do you need anything?”

“No, sweetie. He said you and Wes were watching a movie.”

She glanced over her shoulder to find Wes on the stairs watching her. “Yeah, we are. I just, um, came down for more popcorn.”

Bypassing the kitchen, she tugged Wes up the stairs with her. He waited for her to explain the sudden flush in her face and burst of activity.

“I don’t know how much time we have. I’ll explain after.” She reached under her pillow and pulled out the journal she had stashed there. “Come on. Jenyx, keep watch.”

Wes frowned, and then it dawned on him. “You want to go look for the notebooks.”

Shaking her head, she held up the one in her hand. “Already did. And they’re not just notebooks. They’re journals.”

He followed her to Josh’s room. “You didn’t say you found them.”

“I know. I’m sorry.” She paused after retrieving the small silver key from her uncle’s dresser and looked into his eyes. “They’re my dad’s journals.”

Wes went still. Even the fingers tapping at his leg froze.

“Yeah.” There was no time to give in to her crushing desire for a hug so she moved to the closet and got to work. “I was going to tell you, but I wanted to tell Rhys first and I haven’t had a chance yet. I was actually going to tell him today.”

“Before I showed up.” His eyebrows had vanished under the hair hanging over his forehead.

“Your thing was important too,” she said, looking away when he ran his hand over the back of his neck. She set about taking a mental inventory of the clothes atop the bags on the closet floor. Once she had peeled them back in order, she dug for the lock.

Turning the key and popping off the small silver lock, she threw the lid open. Wes was quiet while she rummaged through the nearest stack, flipping covers until she found the one she wanted. Her dad’s now-familiar handwriting gave the dates leading up to the one she’d already read. She tossed the new one to Wes and arranged the other in with the stacks so that they were roughly even again. Then she reversed the process with the lock, the layers of laundry, and finally returned the key to the small purple bag in the dresser drawer.

They made it back to her room with a couple minutes to spare before the car engine coming up the street alerted them to Josh’s return.

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