The Witch and the Watcher by Laura Detering EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Laura Detering
- Language: English
- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Coming of Age Fantasy
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Valentine ’s Gram
Nick’s absence was a heavy weight upon our shoulders. Six weeks. It’d
been six weeks since he left to collect and deliver Christmas roses to
Cristes. He was only supposed to be gone for a few days.
Though I didn’t know Nick well, I couldn’t help but be worried about
him. He had told me trips to the realm of Cristes were difficult, but he’d
also said he’d done it many times before. Selfishly, I also feared what
would happen to us. A witch wanted me dead. She wanted Will to exact her
revenge and become queen of Cristes. Will and I had only recently learned
we were Watchers and yet we knew virtually nothing about our gifts, nor
how to wield them. If she attacked me again, whether in person or my
dreams, how would I stop her? Will and I needed Nick, and I was desperate
to start training.
Naturally, like a game of telephone, no one at school had the correct
story regarding how I was attacked after the winter formal. Well, no one
except for my closest friends, and Justin. Weeks on end filled with awkward
glances and intrusive stares were enough to get my blood boiling. One
sophomore girl, Heather something, became the first and only victim of my
roiling frustration the last week of January. As I walked down the hall, her
eyes were like an owl’s as they stared wide at me, unblinking. She’d been
talking to her friends, acting as if she knew me and the true details of the
assault that nearly succeeded in killing me if Alex hadn’t come in at the last
second and saved me. Heather either didn’t realize it or didn’t care that I’d
overheard her.
“Is there something you’d like to say to me?” I boomed.
“N-n-n, no,” she stammered, her eyes darting as she realized there was
a small audience beyond the safety of her friends.
“Perhaps I have something in my teeth or toilet paper on my shoe?” I
sneered, turning slowly for emphasis. “I mean, you have been staring at me
since I turned the corner.” She shook her head.
My conscience got the better of me as the red flushing her cheeks and
water pricking at the corners of her eyes finally registered. I decided to
address the crowd instead of singling her out again.
“Listen, whatever happened after the dance is the business of those
involved, no one else’s! It was an accident and no one’s fault. So, everyone
needs to quit staring at me all the time like I’m some circus act.
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