Kiss of Frost by Jennifer Estep

Author:Jennifer Estep [Estep, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic
ISBN: 9780758274304
Publisher: K-Teen
Published: 2010-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

Busted. I was totally, completely busted.

I knew the second the words came out of Daphne's mouth that there was no taking them back--or wiggling my way out of an explanation.

"Reapers?" Nickamedes asked in a sharp tone. "What Reapers?"

Daphne frowned, a puzzled expression on her pretty face. "TheReaper. The one who's trying to kill Gwen. The one who almost ran her over with a car and then took a shot at her in the Library of Antiquities the other night ..."

The Valkyrie's voice drifted off as she realized just how intently Nickamedes and Metis were staring at her. She looked at them a second before turning her gaze to me. "You didn't tell them about the Reaper? You told me you were going to talk to Metis!"

"And I changed my mind," I muttered. "I have the right to do that, you know. Free will and all. We talked about it just the other day in myth-history class."

Daphne put her hands on her hips and glared at me. The pink sparks flashing around her fingertips crackled and coalesced into tiny streaks of lightning, showing me just how pissed she was at me right now.

"AndItoldyouthat you don't mess around when it comes to Reapers, especially when one of them is trying to kill you," the Valkyrie snapped.

Metis stepped around the hospital bed and put a hand on Daphne's arm. "I think the two of you need to tell us what's going on. Right now."

Yep, there was no way out of this--not with the professor staring at me, her green eyes sharp and narrow behind her silver glasses. And especially not with Nickamedes glaring at me, his own gaze as blue and cold as the snow on the mountain.

I sighed and told them the whole story, from almost being run over outside Grandma Frost's house to the arrow in the library to the Fenrir wolf that had been lurking around the ski resort and finally, to the avalanche. When I was finished, Metis called Coach Ajax into the room and made me repeat the whole thing over again to him.

"Why didn't you tell anyone about this before?" Ajax asked when I was finished.

I shifted in the bed, feeling the weight of the professors' accusing stares on my chest, as hard and heavy as the wolf's paws had been earlier. "Because I didn't have any proof. Nobody saw the car, the arrow, or even the Fenrir wolf but me. I didn't want you all to think I was being hysterical or paranoid or something."

Nickamedes crossed his arms over his chest. "Do you know how much danger you've put everyone in, Gwendolyn? If you evensuspectedthat a Reaper of Chaos was running around the academy, you should have told one of your professors immediately. Not stupidly thought that you could handle it by yourself."

I really, really wanted to point out the small fact that the mystery Reaper hadn't actually, you know,killed me yet. That in my own way, I had handled it. At least, enough to stay alive these past few days.

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