Provoke: A Seaside Pictures Novella

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by Rachel Van Dyken


  Something sharp jabbed into my thigh. I winced and squeezed my eyes shut, then opened them and looked down.

  And there was her knife, stuck in my thigh at least a half-inch past my jeans.

  Perfect.

  I nodded slowly. “Is that the Abandonato crest?”

  “Beautiful, right?” She beamed then flipped her dyed golden hair in the air giving me a whiff of her cherry shampoo.

  I jerked out the knife and handed it back to her. “Don’t be creepy and lick the blood off—that’s weird, even for you.”

  She just rolled her eyes. “More like using it in a spell to make your favorite appendage fall off.”

  “Your favorite appendage,” I grumbled. “Remember? Oh God Junior, right there, so good, it’s so—”

  She clapped a hand over my mouth while a few students in front of us chuckled. “I get it, just. Stop. Talking.”

  I licked her hand and grinned.

  She smiled and looked away, down at her phone. “It shouldn’t be like this.”

  “I’ll hate you for as long as we both shall live,” I uttered the mantra we’d been repeating to each other for the last four years.

  “Hate you,” she repeated in a soft voice. “For as long as we both shall live.”

  And so the hurt continued.

  On behalf of 1001 Dark Nights,

  Liz Berry, M.J. Rose, and Jillian Stein would like to thank ~

  Steve Berry

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  Benjamin Stein

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  Chelle Olson

  Kasi Alexander

  Jessica Johns

  Dylan Stockton

  Richard Blake

  and Simon Lipskar

  Table of Contents

  Book Description

  Prologue

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Chapter Sixteen

  Epilogue

 

 

 


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