Pure Dead Frozen by Debi Gliori

Author:Debi Gliori
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780375892189
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2008-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

“Darling?”

“Cara mia?”

“Is there something the matter?” In the backseat, Baci was gathering her wraps and gloves, her bag and the infernal goblin’s—No, no, no, Luciano, the baby’s—travel bag, and smiling at her husband’s reflection in the rearview mirror.

Luciano forced a smile onto his face, forced a lightness into his voice, and forced himself not to dwell upon the huge deception he was practicing on his poor, innocent wife. “Heavens, no, Baci. You, my darling wife, you have made me the happiest, the proudest man in all of Scotland. Four fine childr—” Was that a hiss? Had that vile monstrosity dared to hiss at him? Luciano’s eyes slid sideways to where it sat, strapped in, leering at him. No teeth visible, thankfully—

“Oh, look, Luciano, he’s smiling at you. Ahhhhh, how adorable.”

Adorable, thought Luciano woodenly, his eyes firmly fixed on the rearview mirror. No. Not even remotely adorable, that thing. Repulsive, terrifying, bowel-clenchingly, monstrously wrong—but adorable? Never.

“Never what?” Baci looked up, puzzled. “I didn’t quite catch that. Sorry, darling. Too busy making sure that I’ve got all my stuff from the hospital. Honestly—I was only in for what, twenty-four hours, and in that time somehow I managed to acquire six bouquets of flowers, four boxes of chocolates, a ton of magazines, and enough bath foam to cover StregaSchloss in suds from top to bott—What’s that sound? That weird hissing noise? What on earth is it, Luciano?”

It was doing it again. Think, man. Don’t just sit there, say something.

“Slow puncture. Or…or…ah…maybe it’s the, um”—Luciano cudgeled his brains for what little he remembered of the oily bits under the hood—“the, er, cylinder-head-rotor-arm-carburetor-valve…gasket.”

Baci’s eyes rolled. Fortunately for Luciano, his wife’s knowledge of mechanical engineering made his look positively encyclopedic.

“Gosh. Sounds fearsomely expensive. Oh, look, here’s Minty come to welcome the new baby.” And blessedly, so distracted was Baci that she failed to notice the red eyes that rapidly opened and closed again, scanning the new arrival in one blink.

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