Hallie Hath No Fury . . . by Katie Finn

Author:Katie Finn
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781250073990
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

CHAPTER 6

Eighteen Months Later • April

I pulled into the parking lot of Stubbs Coffee, cut the engine, and let out a long breath. I had been waiting for this moment for years. And now, it was actually going to begin. And I was terrified.

I checked the time on the dashboard clock—I was still okay. I had over an hour to get ready and get over to Putnam Park, the place where I would put my plan—the one that I’d spent years crafting—into place. It was two o’clock on a Wednesday afternoon, which meant that I absolutely should have been in school. But when I’d realized, through Gemma’s and Teddy’s status updates, that Gemma would be busy this afternoon and Teddy would be at a loose end, I knew that this was my moment. And I wasn’t about to let a little thing like the fact that I was supposed to be in class stop me.

It helped that my mother was away on a retreat so that she could figure out her next project. Our housekeeper was staying with us so I’d have some supervision, but since I rarely came home before five anyway, I knew I was in the clear. And the guys in the garage in our building had been more than happy to get my mother’s car out for me, assuming I was just pulling it around for her. It had just been an hour drive from New York City into suburban Connecticut, and even though it had been pretty, with bright-green leaves starting to appear on the trees on the side of the highway, I’d barely noticed. My thoughts had been on what had to happen, what I needed to remember, all the parts and pieces that needed to come together just right. I knew this afternoon, today, was my best shot.

When I’d determined that the best way to hurt Gemma was through Teddy, I’d made sure to look at every aspect of their relationship that I could find. And one thing that had been a source of frustration was that they were almost never apart. If I was going to meet Teddy—and have it seem like it was by chance—it had to be at a moment when Gemma wouldn’t be there. I had a feeling she’d recognize me in a heartbeat and then my entire plan would fall apart.

I let out another breath, then got out of the car, grabbing my duffel bag from the backseat and heading inside the coffee shop. This wasn’t my first time in Putnam—I’d done a dry run the week before, taking the train from Grand Central while my mother thought I was studying at the library. I’d figured out how to get to the park, and that the coffee shop would be a perfect staging area. I’d been seeing Gemma and her friends—because now I was Friendverse friends with most of them—talk about Stubbs for years, so actually being there was kind of like walking into a place from a movie or book, something I’d heard about but not actually experienced in real life.

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