The Second Heart by K. K. Eaton

Author:K. K. Eaton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, urban fantasy, suspense, adventure, mystery, fantasy, magic, fantasy contemporary, strong female characters

Chapter 14

Meredith and Vi’s apartment backed up onto a small city park that boasted a swing set and a few picnic tables. By the time they were crossing the overgrown lawn, it was just after eight in the morning. Their apartment building blocked them from view of the parking lot, just as they had hoped it would.

Vi’s bare feet squished into the damp grass as they walked, making small squelching sounds. Her socks were stuffed into her pockets and her prized leather boots sat abandoned in the wash where they had rested earlier. Vi stepped around a broken off branch of a bougainvillea bush, careful of its long, sharp spines.

A young woman was walking her dog through the park, and she smiled at them as she passed. If she noticed Vi’s bare feet, she didn’t give any indication. After returning her grin, they waited until she was gone from sight before they walked into the shadow of their apartment building and sidled up under Josh’s window.

Vi reached down and picked up a handful of landscaping gravel that had gathered along the foundation of the building. She threw a pebble upward, but it bounced noiselessly off the stucco next to the window.

“Seriously, Vi? The window is like six feet wide.” Meredith took a pebble from Vi’s hand and threw it up, where it clacked against the glass.

“That was just my warm up,” Vi said defensively. She threw a second pebble, which pinged against the metal window frame that ran down the middle of the two panes of glass.

They threw several more rocks, each a little harder than the last. After each pebble, they glanced around cautiously, making sure they weren’t being observed. Still, Josh didn’t come to the window.

“Maybe he’s not home,” Vi suggested, disappointed.

“Maybe he’s a really heavy sleeper,” Meredith countered. She bent down and pulled off her tennis shoe, turning up a corner of her mouth slyly. She felt jittery and nervous as the wet of the grass soaked through her sock, sending a chill up her body. She threw the shoe at the window, where it thumped loudly against the window, causing the glass to shake in its frame. She looked around to make sure no one had seen them.

From inside the apartment, they heard a muffled, “Jesus Christ!”

Meredith gulped down a giggle, feeling giddy in her relief that he was home. She looked around again nervously, making sure they were still alone behind the building. Vi raised an amused eyebrow at her while Meredith walked over and picked up her shoe where it had fallen on the ground.

Upstairs, they could see Josh hobble angrily over to the window on one crutch. His hair was sticking up on one side and he wasn’t wearing a shirt. When he caught sight of Meredith and Vi down below, his anger turned to confusion as he opened the window. “We have to stop meeting like this,” he joked, though his curiosity was written all over his face.

They had agreed on the

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