Control (AURORA #1) by Lily Cordova EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Lily Cordova
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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BEDTIME
“ANA!” SAID A voice calling out to me from behind. I turned around and
saw the outline of a woman I’d known for some time. Her light skin and
dark brown hair was something I’d grown accustomed to since I’d started
going to Latchkey, an after school program designed to look after the
children of working parents between the time school ended and 5pm or so,
the time when most adults were finally off for the day. “Young lady, what
did you do to Steven! Why is he crying!”
“Nothing!” I said back to her as she stepped closer to me, her green
eyes shielded by black, thick-framed glasses staring down into my own. “I
saw you take that game in your hands from him. Why did you do that?”
“Because I want to play with it,” I said, holding the tiny chessboard to
my chest and pouting. “He knows I like this one. That’s why he went for it.
He’s being greedy, Ms. Montgomery!”
“No,” she said while reaching out and taking the game from me. As she
did, the pieces which were trapped inside the thick game board spilled out
onto the floor, scattering everywhere. Black and white pieces – pawns,
knights, rooks, queens – ended up all over the floor which pushed Ms.
Montgomery to sigh. She knelt down in front of me, her sneakers making
an audible squeak and the chessboard making a light clacking sound as she
set it down on the floor. “Ana, you need to help me pick this up.”
I stared at hew for a few seconds as she reached down to pick up the
pieces from white and gray tiled floor of the cafeteria where all of the
Latchkey children were kept. Unfolding the thick, brown chessboard, Ms
Montgomery began placing the various pieces back inside where they were
normally kept so they wouldn’t get lost.
“Ana,” she said to me again, a touch of aggravation in her voice. “Help
me. Now.” With a huff, I got down on my knees, my small sneakers also
making the same squeaking noise that hers did. My long, black hair which
my mother normally kept up in a ponytail fell loosely down around my
face, nearly touching the floor.
I’d earlier taken my hair tie out and kept it
on my wrist since the ponytail my mother helped me set each morning
before school was often very tight. It wasn’t unusual that I’d pull it out and
let my long locks go wild by the time 4th period came around. With each
game piece I picked up, I grew somewhat miffed and casually tossed them
toward the chessboard, not really caring if it made it inside or not. Ms.
Montgomery noticed. “Ana.”
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