Iron Cast by Destiny Soria

Author:Destiny Soria
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2016-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

At Corinne’s insistence, they took the long way to the apartment, staying off the more trafficked streets. Ada didn’t argue, but she thought the measure was unnecessary. All the white-slick roads were empty this morning. The snow was falling faster now, sticking to her eyelashes and blurring her vision.

Corinne was hugging herself and skipping to avoid the denser patches of snow. She had always been better suited for sunshine and springtime. Ada kept her hands buried in her pockets. Melting snow was thick on her wool coat; and despite her hat, she was beginning to feel the dampness on her scalp. An umbrella probably would have been a useful thing to bring along.

“I haven’t seen your mother in ages,” Corinne said. “You think there will be any of that bread waiting? I can’t ever remember what it’s called—pan?”

“Pão.” Ada hunched her shoulders, trying in vain to protect her neck from the chill. She had forgotten a scarf. “Cor, my mom’s pretty angry at me. She might be mad at you too—I don’t know.”

“Why?”

“We had another fight. About Johnny and the Cast Iron. About what we do for a living.”

Corinne’s lips were a grim line. Her hair was stringy with the melting snow, and thin rivulets ran down the contours of her face.

“We’re just doing the best we can,” Corinne said. “You’ve done all this for her.”

“That doesn’t make any of it right.” Ada’s voice was so soft that the fluttering snow drowned it out.

Shawmut Avenue emptied onto her mother’s street, and she could see the apartment building a block down on the right. Corinne started to cross the street, but an unfamiliar shape caught Ada’s eye and she grabbed her arm. The black, hulking car was parked across the road from the apartments. There was a man leaning against the driver’s side door, puffing on a cigarette. Ada didn’t see his face, but the hairs on her neck prickled. Corinne saw him too and cursed. She backed up and threw open the door of the nearest shop. Ada ducked in behind her.

The shop had wall-to-floor windows, mostly obscured by artfully displayed bolts of cloth. Ada and Corinne huddled behind a violently magenta drapery and peered through the window. Once the man had finished his cigarette, he stayed where he was. He did open the car door at one point, but he only stuck his head in for a moment, then straightened back up.

“It’s one of the agents from the club,” Corinne whispered. “His partner must be in the car.”

They were definitely waiting for someone, Ada realized. She could see it in the casual sweeps of his gaze up and down the street. They were waiting for her. If she had come by her usual route from the Cast Iron, she would have turned the corner and walked right into them.

“What are you doing in here?”

Ada and Corinne turned to face the clerk, a pale woman with a pinched face. Her hands were balled into tight fists at her sides.

“Good morning,

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