Duplicity (Spellbound #2) by Jefford Nikki

Author:Jefford, Nikki [Jefford, Nikki]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-05-18T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Monday morning, Lee brushed her hair gently in front of the bathroom mirror. She had shimmied into a pair of tight jeans. Why not? She was supermodel thin. The nazar was tucked under a thin sweater. Lee didn’t want to look like she was part of an evil eye cult, though she doubted Raj, Max, and Shay would wear theirs for the world to see, either.

Ryan and Nolan had not been lucky enough to score a nazar. Not that Ryan would have been at school even with the amulet. After learning of his supposed involvement in the theft of the pendants, Marc Phillips had grounded Ryan. No school. No stepping out of the house. No calling Charlene.

Being neither a peer leader nor son of a council member, Nolan Knapp had never stood a chance of receiving a nazar. Unlike other Kent families, his parents had elected to take their chances at home rather than camp out at Gathering, though they weren’t such risk takers as to send Nolan to school with faulty powers.

When Lee came down to the kitchen, Mr. Morehouse was already at the dining room table drinking coffee and leaning into his laptop.

“Good morning,” Lee called out.

“Morning, Stace,” Mr. Morehouse said without looking up.

She helped herself to cereal and rice milk—another one of those small quirks Stacey had developed since coming out of the coma. Mr. Morehouse didn’t talk much in the morning, which was fine with Lee. But this morning, instead of calling out a quick “good-bye” as she made for the door, Mr. Morehouse stood and followed her to the entryway. Lee reached for her book bag and shot him a questioning glance.

“You are going to school, aren’t you?”

Lee broke out into a grin despite herself. “How can you even ask? Yes, I’m going to school. I’m going to learn and then I’ll ride the bus home at the end of the day.”

Mr. Morehouse’s shoulders relaxed. “That’s my girl.”

School had its attractions, with the added benefit that the duplicate Gray wouldn’t be there.

Lee ran into Shay first. The two couples had gotten their locker assignments together at the start of senior year. Shay was almost always the first person to school, followed by Lee, Max, and Raj. But this morning, Raj didn’t show up.

Lee frowned “Where’s Raj?” She looked up and down the hall.

Shay set a textbook inside her locker with a final thunk. “He’s still miffed about the truth spell we did on the water at Gathering.”

Raj had given Lee an earful about it the night before, but she’d only been half listening. “I don’t see what choice you had, given the circumstances.”

“And it worked,” Shay said, lifting her chin a notch. “Holloway says they’ll be able to fix the spell using the information they gathered during interrogation.”

Max chuckled. When Shay looked at him, he cleared his throat. “Sorry, interrogation sounds so rough and tumble. I like to think of the proceedings as interviews.”

“And they didn’t tell you anything?” Lee asked. She knew the answer, but she asked anyway.

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