The Complete Grimm Chronicles (The Grimm Chronicles Box Set) by Brosky Ken & Fontaine Isabella

Author:Brosky, Ken & Fontaine, Isabella [Brosky, Ken]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Brew City Press
Published: 2015-04-27T18:30:00+00:00

It was about as bad of a lunch as you could expect, under the circumstances. Lots of hung heads. Lots of words of encouragement from Mr. Whitmann, complete with stories about his wrestling years when he found himself face-to-face with bear-sized seniors twice his size. Chase chimed in, telling us about epic baseball comebacks against top-ranked teams. No amount of positivity could light our fires, though.

Back in the hotel lobby, Chase cornered me.

“Just stay here with me for a second,” he said. He guided me to the little secluded corner, where the TV was flanked by potted ferns. I sat on the couch, crossing my arms. Getting a stern talking to about a budding relationship wasn’t exactly what I was in the mood for.

“You could have beat that girl.”

I flinched. “Wait, what now?”

Chase crossed his arms, mimicking me. He was wearing his leather gauntlets and a black t-shirt that showed off his arm muscles in a distracting sort of way. “You could have beaten that Hungarian girl. What happened?”

“I just … I got a little intimidated.” You know, having a flashback featuring the dead Corrupted boyfriend will do that to a person.

“They choreograph,” Chase said. “But they don’t have the killer’s instinct like you. You can beat that girl when you face her in the tournament. But you missed a chance to get a good look at her when she was facing Jasmine. And your teammates weren’t all that happy about you wandering off.”

“Chase.” I exhaled a whole lot of frustration, feeling my face warm. “I’m just not thinking about the tournament right now at this exact moment.”

“They are, though.” He shifted in his chair, seriously competing with me for the title of Most Exasperated. “Your team isn’t here to fight dragons or monsters or whatever else. They’re here to compete in the tournament. And you’re on their team.”

“Well, this is more important!”

“What is?” he asked, raising an eyebrow. “Is wandering off with Seth more important than practicing with your team?”

“Oh, is that what this is really about? Are you jealous or something?”

He shook his head. “I don’t know. Look, I … I know I’m not the ideal boyfriend. Or, I guess we haven’t used that term …” he rubbed his head, staring down at his lap. “I just mean that I understand if you want to chalk up all the time we’ve spent together lately as just a fling or something like that.”

“Oh don’t you dare play the pity card, you big butthead!” I shouted, on the verge of crying. Why was he saying all this? Did he not want to get close to me? Did he really think he wasn’t good enough for me?

Say something, Chase.

He looked up into my eyes, pleading. But I didn’t know what he needed. I searched. I swam in those dark pupils, diving deep. But I came up empty-handed.

Finally, he turned, wheeling back toward the boys’ room.

The clerk had turned her head from the little TV and was staring at me.

“Yeah, I’m a

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