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AFTER FOUR NIGHTS ON the run, I was finally safe,…
I WHEELED AS THE door swung closed behind me. I…
DEREK MADE HIS WAY across the flat section of the…
WE WENT DOWNSTAIRS SHORTLY after that. Derek headed straight for…
IN THE HALL, DEREK turned. “You guys go see about…
AFTER DINNER, ANDREW WARNED us it would be lights-out at…
SUMMONINGS AREN’T NEARLY AS cool as they look in the…
I TOOK THE PILL and fell right to sleep. When…
GWEN ARRIVED FOR TRAINING after breakfast, and Margaret was supposed…
MARGARET ARRIVED SHORTLY AFTER Gwen left. When Tori came down…
MARGARET LED US INTO the cemetery. There were some mourners…
“IT’S EASY TO SUMMON ghosts who want to be called,”…
“ARE YOU GIRLS OKAY?” the man asked.
TORI AND I WERE heading for the stairs when I…
TORI CAME IN AT four and seemed surprised to find…
ABOUT FIFTY FEET INTO the forest, Simon stopped dead and…
I WATCHED SIMON WALK away, then wiped my eyes with…
TORI WAS IN OUR room, reading an old leather-bound book…
WE KEPT TO THE shadows in the yard in case…
THE LAST TIME DEREK had tried to Change, he’d made…
WHO WERE WE RUNNING from? I’d seen enough horror flicks…
I RAN, GETTING AS far from Derek as I could.
“I—I DIDN’T…” DEREK BEGAN.
WE RETURNED TO WHERE Derek left his clothes before his…
ONLY MARGARET SHOWED UP. While Andrew said Gwen must be…
“WHAT?” SIMON SAID, SHIFTING forward. “Your mom’s here?”
I SPUN, EXPECTING TO see Andrew, but no one was…
HOW LAME DOES IT sound if I admit I stayed…
TORI KEPT SEARCHING. THERE wasn’t much more—just enough to confirm…
“ANDREW?” I PEEKED INTO the kitchen, where he was getting…
BY NOW, WE WERE experts at this escaping thing. We…
I RETREATED TO MY room at nine. Tori was there,…
DEREK HAD MORE QUESTIONS for Andrew. He asked about that…
I STEPPED OUT THE back door and edged along the…
LIZ STOOD THERE, GRINNING. “We did it.”
WE CONSIDERED HAVING LIZ scout for safe passage, but we…
“SO,” SIMON SAID. “LOOKS like you and Derek are getting…
I WAS NEARING THE stairs when Simon hailed me.
COLD METAL VIBRATED AGAINST my cheek. A car roared past.
AND SO, AFTER A week on the run, I ended…
AS THE DEMI-DEMON HAD said, all the major players were…
“NEXT STOP, DEAR AUNTIE Lauren,” the demi-demon trilled. “Then straight…
FREEING THE DEMI-DEMON WASN’T much different from freeing a ghost.
FINGERS BRUSHED MY FACE, making me jump back from the…
I GRABBED MY NECKLACE and pulled it on as I…
WE COLLECTED TORI AND Simon just as they were heading…
DEREK’S CHANGE CAME FASTER now and maybe a bit easier—no…
MR. BAE LIFTED A hand, waving casually, like he’d walked in…
MR. BAE’S VAN WAS parked a mile away in a shopping…
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