The Coven by Cate Tiernan

Author:Cate Tiernan [Tiernan, Cate]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.
Published: 2013-01-30T16:00:00+00:00

On Wednesday morning, when I was toasting two Pop-Tarts for breakfast, I heard footsteps overhead.

“Mary K.!” I said. “Who’s upstairs?”

Mary K. blinked. “Mom,” she said, turning back to the comics. “She’s staying home sick today.”

I looked at the top of my sister’s head. Mom never stayed home from work. She had been known to show houses in a snowstorm when she had the flu.

“What’s wrong with her?” I asked. “She was fine last night, wasn’t she?” She and my dad had had dinner out alone, something they almost never did. I had figured they were avoiding me, and I had waited up for them, but at eleven-thirty I had given up and gone to bed.

“I don’t know. Maybe she just wanted a day off.”

“Huh.” Maybe this was my chance: I could go upstairs right now and get her to answer all my questions.

On the other hand, I would be late for school. And Cal was at school. Besides, if she wanted to tell me anything, she’d have told me by now. Right?

I sighed. Or maybe the truth was, now that the chance was staring me in the face, as it were, I was afraid to seize it. Scared of what I might learn.

My Pop-Tarts leaped energetically out of the toaster and broke on the kitchen counter. I gathered up the pieces in a paper towel and gave my sister a gentle kick.

“Let’s go,” I said. “Education awaits us.” Mom would be home when I got out of school. I could talk to her then.

Mary K. nodded and got into her coat.

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