Hidden House of Night Book 10 by P. C. Cast

Author:P. C. Cast
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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I thought I was ready to see Erin. I was

super wrong. I’d expected her to be distant

and cold—she’d been working the cold,

distant act for the past several days. I’d

even known about her thing with Dallas—

Shaylin had told us she’d seen them, and

their very muddy, very yucky colors,

together the night before. And Shaunee had

admitted she’d seen them making out (even

though she refused to give us what she

called ‘the gory details’). Still, I hadn’t

expected Erin to be so obvious. But there

she was, sitting smack up against Dallas in

the back of the class with the other hateful

red fledglings when we walked into first

hour.

“Oh, hell, no,” Aphrodite muttered as

Erin’s sarcastic, oh-my-goddess-I’m-so-

sexy

laughter

bubbled

around

us

sarcastically.

“Don’t give her any attention,” Shaunee

whispered as she walked by us while we

all gawked at how far Erin had fallen into

the gutter. Okay, all of us gawked except

Shaunee. Shaunee didn’t even glance at her

ex-Twin. She just walked with her head

up, like she couldn’t hear Erin’s immature

giggles or feel the nasty looks thrown her

way.

“Shaunee’s right.” I lowered my voice

so only my group could hear me. “Erin’s

like one of those bad kids who wants any

kind of attention—positive or negative.

Ignore her and the rest of them.”

So, we did. I took my seat in the front

row with Stevie Rae and Rephaim and

Shaunee on one side of me, and Aphrodite,

Shaylin, and Damien on the other.

Aurox’s unoccupied seat seemed super

obvious to me. What’s he doing right

now? What’s going through his mind as

he gets ready to confront Neferet and

save Grandma? Is he going to chicken

out? He’s probably not even going to be

waiting at the depot when we go back to

get him. He’ll probably be, like, halfway

to Brazil by then …

Shaylin’s voice cut off my internal

hyperventilation. “Look over there,” She’d

leaned forward to whisper to me across

Aphrodite. She was nodding slightly to the

left of our group at a single kid. Surprised,

I recognized that kid as Nicole. She was

completely by herself and sitting up toward

the front of the class, definitely separated

from Dallas and his group.

“Colors?” Aphrodite asked her quietly.

“The red’s almost gone,” Shaylin

answered just loud enough for me to hear.

“And the sandstorm brown stuff is turning

gold. It’s really pretty.”

“Huh,” I said.

“Weird,” Aphrodite said.

“Totally dang weird,” Stevie Rae

whispered from the other side of me. “And

I still don’t like her.”

I was trying to think of something wise

to say when Thanatos entered the room.

“Merry meet!” she said.

“Merry meet!” we responded.

Thanatos didn’t waste any time, and I

was super grateful for that because I was

seriously sick of time wasting.

“I cannot ask you to turn in your

homework, as I would were this an

ordinary school. I am not going to pretend

that you haven’t lost your leader, Neferet,

and that your lives haven’t been torn

asunder.”

Damien tapped quickly on his iPad and

lifted it so we could all see: TORN

ASUNDER = TORN TO PIECES.

“I want to know who’s responsible for

the fire at the stables.” Erin’s question

from the back of the room surprised more

of the kids than just me. I heard whispers

from everywhere. Shaunee’s face had gone

blank and pale, and even Thanatos took

more than an appropriate teacher hesitation

before she responded.

“It seems that it was an unfortunate

accident,” Thanatos said.

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