Scarlet Rain by Kristin Cast

Author:Kristin Cast
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781626818941
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: 2016-05-17T04:00:00+00:00

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“Get down! Get down!” Bridget hissed as she turned off of Fifteenth Street and into Eva’s neighborhood.

Eva immediately bent over and rested her head on her knees. “What is it? Did you see my mom?”

“No, there were just a lot of cops guarding a barricade on that street, and I got really nervous all of a sudden.” Bridget wrung her hands, then placed them back on the steering wheel. “The anxiety is killing me. I need a Xanax with a champagne chaser.”

Eva sat up in her seat and huffed. “You have to relax. You can’t be more on edge than I am. You’re supposed to be the calm one in this situation.”

“I’m trying, but you could go to jail, and I—”

“Hush! You’re going to jinx us.” She scanned the line of parked cars and pointed to an empty spot. “Park over there. We’ll walk the rest of the way.”

“So,” Bridget whispered, as she piled her wavy hair on top of her head and fastened it in a messy bun. “How are we going to do this?”

Eva slid out of the passenger seat and met her friend on the sidewalk. “You don’t have to whisper yet, Bridge. We’re like, four blocks away.” Nervously, she tugged down the bill of her hat to shield her face from the flickering light of the streetlamp.

“I’m trying to prep myself for stealth mode.” Bridget increased the volume of her whisper. “What’s the plan?”

“Uh, I don’t really have one yet. I figured we’d get closer and see if my mom’s home. Then,” Eva said, shrugging, “I don’t know. Go from there?”

Bridget shook her head back and forth. Wisps of hair floated down into her face. “Shitty, shitty, shitty, shitty plan. Come on. Follow me.”

Eva kept to the shadows and let Bridget forge a path. Unfamiliar houses surrounded her, and Eva realized she was lost in her own neighborhood.

“I must drive on autopilot,” she murmured, really looking at the houses for the first time.

“Almost there,” Bridget muttered.

“Finally. I feel like we’ve been walking for at least half an hour, and we didn’t park that far away.”

“We’ve been taking the long way around to get to your house. You’ve never gone this way? I’ve done it at least a thousand times.”

They turned down Columbia Avenue and Eva relaxed at the familiarity of her surroundings. “Shouldn’t we be one street over? We’re going to end up behind my house.”

“Oh my God.” Bridget let out an exasperated sigh. “Would you just trust me and stop asking so many questions? I’ve totally got this.” She stopped in front of a quaint, Craftsman-style home and inspected the outside. The white siding glowed pale blue in the moonlight. “Looks good,” she chirped, before traipsing through the grass and into the backyard.

Eva cemented her feet to the ground. “Bridget! We can’t be back there. That is someone’s backyard.”

“What did I say about trusting me? Plus, they don’t have a fence,” she said matter-of-factly. “And all the lights in the house are off. It’s not that late, so they’re probably not even home.

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