Star Cursed: The Cahill Witch Chronicles, Book Two by Spotswood Jessica

Author:Spotswood, Jessica [Spotswood, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2013-06-18T05:00:00+00:00

My heart is in the city—does he mean me? His heart? I can’t help a foolish smile at that. I grab the fountain pen and pull a blank sheet of paper from beneath the letter.

Meet me for a walk at four tomorrow in Richmond Square Gardens. I miss you.

I hesitate, biting at the tip of the pen, and then add:

Love, C.

CHAPTER

11

I’M IN MY ROOM THE FOLLOWING afternoon when Maura knocks on the open door.

“Sister dearest,” she trills from the doorway, glorious in a cream-colored brocade embroidered with shimmering blue leaves. She must have half a dozen new dresses. I look down at my own gray gown with red piping. I felt pretty five minutes ago, but now I’m the drab little dove compared to her bluebird. “Could I have a word? In private?” She smiles pointedly at Rilla, who’s lying on her stomach on her yellow quilt, reading a romance novel.

“I’ll just run down to the kitchen for some cocoa,” Rilla says, jumping up, leaving her novel open on her bed. “Would you like some, Cate?”

“No, thank you. I’m going out; I’ve got an errand to run.”

Maura smiles as Rilla bounces off. “A rendezvous with your dashing spy?”

I yank her into the room and shut the door. “Hush!”

“Oh, I’m not going to spill your secret,” she says, twirling a red curl around her finger. “I hope he tells you something useful, though. He’s got to start earning his keep.”

Fear washes over me. Earning her silence, she means? “Maura, you do realize no one else can know about this.”

“I haven’t told a soul. Ooh, these are pretty.” Maura snatches up a pair of pearl earbobs from my dresser and slides them on. “I’ve got plans of my own this afternoon. Special tutoring with Sister Inez.”

I sit on the edge of my bed, reaching for my boots. “Practicing mind-magic on your friends again?” I want to stuff the words back into my mouth the second they escape. The last thing I want is to irritate her more.

“Judgmental, aren’t we?” Maura arches her eyebrows at my waspish tone. “I didn’t see you complaining when Sister Cora erased Hope’s memory.”

I slide on heeled black boots. “That was to protect us, not for fun.”

“What part of this do you suppose is fun for me? Letting the Brothers storm in here and interrogate us? Watching an innocent little girl get arrested, knowing they’re going to let her rot in a cellar somewhere?” Maura stalks around the room, stepping over the slippers and stockings Rilla’s dropped helter-skelter. “We’re not safe here anymore. They could seize any of us at any moment.”

“I know that.”

“They’ve arrested at least thirteen girls now, counting Hope. Sister Cora’s ill. We need a strong leader, not all this uncertainty.” Maura plops down on Rilla’s rumpled yellow quilt. “I want you to take the test.”

“No.” I lean down and tie my laces.

Maura groans. “Why are you being so selfish? If you would take the test, we’d find out which of us is the most powerful and we could start planning accordingly.

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