Embolden by Syrie James

Author:Syrie James
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: angels, YA, teen, high school, drama, action, mystery, humor, paranormal, romance, novel, book, sequel, book 2, series
Publisher: LDLA
Published: 2018-06-21T19:24:52+00:00

twenty-two

Claire was so tired, she slept through the rest of Saturday.

On Sunday, Alec called about coming over for an additional training session, but she told him she was too exhausted. Honestly, she wasn’t sure she wanted to see him.

Sure, she hadn’t told him or Helena that she’d tried out her mind-control power a couple of times at school. But that was harmless, and for a good cause. Was Alec, meanwhile, actually involved in something dangerous—like stealing from and provoking the Fallen—and lying to her about it?

Or was it Malcolm who was lying? He might have said all that stuff about Alec and stolen blood just to drive a wedge between her and Alec.

Alec had seemed so convincingly innocent during their training session. But he’d also spent a lifetime deceiving others as part of his former job. How could she trust that he was being straight with her? The idea that he might be deliberately hiding something sucked.

Things didn’t get any better on Monday.

At rehearsal, after two weeks of learning song and dance numbers, they were scheduled to finally start blocking the scenes with dialogue. The scene where Guinevere first meets Arthur was up that afternoon. Despite all the paranormal crap going on in her life, and the fact that she wasn’t too happy with Alec at the moment, Claire had been looking forward to it. It was her first chance to share the stage with him, and it involved a cute case of mistaken identity.

When she arrived at the theater, however, she found Alec waiting for her, the director on stage moving a wooden box into place to act as a temporary set, and … Erica, sitting in the front row. Which was strange, since the scene only included Arthur and Guinevere.

“What’s Erica doing here?” Claire whispered to Alec as she dropped into a fifth row seat beside him.

Before he could reply, Mrs. Donnelly said: “Claire, Alec, please join me on stage. Erica, thank you for coming.”

Erica nodded. “Happy to be here.”

As Claire and Alec darted on stage, the director explained, “I received your email, Claire. And though I understand that emergencies do happen, I don’t want the production put in such an awkward position again. So I’ve cast Erica as your understudy. She’ll be observing your rehearsals so she can learn the part, and—just to be clear—if there are any more unplanned absences, you’ll be dropped from the play, and the part will be hers.”

Claire felt like the wind had been knocked out of her. She darted a glance at Erica, who was busily studying her script. Claire’s face felt red as she nodded mutely. Nobody else had an understudy. Clearly, Ms. Donnelly didn’t trust Claire at all. Which was so unfair. None of this was her fault. She had been kidnapped! If only there were some way to explain that!

It was hard for Claire to concentrate at first. There was so much bullshit clouding her mind: a possibly lying boyfriend, a missing Grigori father, an invisible Watcher and

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