The Castle of Earth and Embers (BRIARWOOD WITCHES #1) by Steffanie Holmes EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors:Steffanie Holmes
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- Genre: Paranormal / Sci-Fi
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MAEVE
“I don’t care if we’re late,” Kelly mumbled as she twisted a strand of
cotton candy around her fingers and licked it off. “This diabetic coma
I’m about to inhale is a hundred-and-twenty percent worth it.”
“Nothing can be a hundred-and-twenty percent worth it,” I reminded
her, biting into the enormous ball of cotton candy we held between us. The
pink fluff dissolved on my tongue. This is way better than a birthday cake.
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“It’s a mathematical impossibility.”
Kelly made a face at me, her mouth full of cotton candy. “No math on
your birthday. Now be quiet and help my finish this sugary fluff, Einstein.
We’re running late.”
My adoptive sister was the only person I let get away with calling me
Einstein. Being the lone science nerd in Coopersville, Arizona, was hard
enough without having to deal with a nickname that confirmed to the world
I didn’t fit in. There was a jock in sixth grade who tormented me with the
name. It lasted until I “accidentally” tripped him in chem lab. His head hit
the corner of a lab table and he head to get stitches. Don’t be fooled, kids,
science kills.
He left me alone after that, but then I made the mistake of chopping my
brown hair into a layered pixie cut, and the kids started to call me a whole
other kind of name, when they bothered to talk to me, which wasn’t often.
Kelly might be annoying as hell sometimes, but as well as being my
sister, she was my only friend. No way was I going to hurt her any more
than I already had. So I was stuck with Einstein.
We shoved our way through the thick crowd that had gathered on the
fairway. Harried-looking mothers tugged their children from sideshow to
sideshow, dishing out tiny plastic tokens like they were prescription
painkillers. A long line at the shooting range stretched past the hot dog
stand as the high school jocks waited for their chance to show off their
skills.
Our parents told us to meet them at the Ferris wheel twenty minutes ago
for some awkward Crawford family fun time. Mom was big on family fun
time, especially on birthdays, and especially if it included wholesome and
PG-rated activities like attending the annual Coopersville county fair, which
occurred every year on my birthday. It’s not exactly a twenty-first birthday
blowout, but Kelly could make anything fun. She dragged me away from
our parents as soon as we got inside the gates.
She didn’t want anyone from
school to see us with our parents. It was bad enough for her being the
pastor’s daughter, but being seen with them in public was just too much.
I couldn’t really care less. I graduated high school two years ago. I’d
been living at home since then, taking advanced physics classes at a
community college in Phoenix while I saved money for a real college. I
didn’t really hang out with anyone apart from Kelly and the folk in the
college astronomy club.
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