Tangled Thoughts (38 page)

“Lainey?” In the hall, my bedroom door was opening. We both turned toward the voice. Carter went absolutely rigid, eyes wide as moons and filled with something like…recognition. “What's going on?”

Jack stepped into the common room and froze.

“Jack?” Carter said. Blood rushed to his face at same time Jack's went white.

“You—what? You know each other?” My eyes flicked between the two of them, finally landing on Jack. He took a step toward me, hands held out in front of him.

“Lainey, it's not what, I swear, I was going to tell you—”

Carter stepped between us, his hands closing into fists. “So
this
is what the Perceptum Council intern has been doing all year? Kensington, you son of a bitch!”

And then Carter launched himself at Jack and they hit the ground with a crash.

Cara Bertrand is a former middle school literacy teacher who now lives in the woods outside Boston with: one awesome husband, two large dogs, one small daughter, and lots of words. She is the author of TANGLED THOUGHTS, SECOND THOUGHTS and LOST IN THOUGHT, the first novel in the Sententia and one of three finalists for the Amazon/Penguin Breakthrough Novel Award in the Young Adult category.

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