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T*Witches: Building a Mystery
Book: T*Witches: Building a Mystery Read Online Free
Author: Randi Reisfeld, H.B. Gilmour
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she could trace it, a hoarse voice offered, "I can open it for you, if you've lost the combo."
     
    Alex looked up into the cool blue eyes of the leather-jacketed boy she'd seen walking past the pizza shop.
     
    "That's okay. I know the combination." Suddenly Dylan was at her side. "You're new around here, right? I'm Dylan Barnes."
     
    "Yeah, we moved here in July. Cade Richman," the boy introduced himself. He looked from Dylan back to Alex, taking in their blue streaks and look-alike haircuts. "Oh, are you two...?"
     
    "Oh, no. Definitely not. He's my brother," Alex explained. "Actually, he's not even my brother, he's my sister's brother. I'm Alex Fielding." Cade was staring at her, bewildered but amused. Alex laughed. "It's a long story."
     
    He scratched his head, his hair a tumble of ink-dark curls. "Sounds complicated," he said with a crooked smile. "Okay, well, nice meting you guys."
     
    "I'm new, too," Alex called after him.
     
    "Cool." He waved. "Catch you at orientation."
     
    She looked up. Six faces, mouths open, eyes wide, were staring at her.
     
    "Who was that?" Beth was the first to cross the hall.
     
    "His name's Cade—" Dylan started to answer.
     
    Kristen brushed away his attempt. "Cade Richman. Rumors are already flying. Got kicked out of some other school and dumped here. He's trouble."
     
    "I never saw him before and hope never to again," Brianna insisted. "Coffee, chocolate, boys—some things are just better rich. I mean, torn jeans, that cruddy leather jacket, and those mountain-man boots? Not my type."
     
    "Mmm," Sukari countered. "Tall, tasty, and intense—he's mine."
     
    "Only it's Alex who cast a spell over him," Amanda teased.
     
    Alex locked eyes with the feather-earringed redhead.
     
    "Don't mind 'Manda," Sukari told her. "She's, like, all into chanting, scented candles, and simmering herbs. She's our local witch."
     
    "Right. When Camryn isn't doing her mojo thing," Beth added, grinning at her best. Cam's mojo was what the Six Pack called the uncanny vibes, hunches, and premonitions their bud was known for. Until last season's championship match. When the soccer ace had suddenly suffered a space-out in the final moments of the Marble Bay Meteors' most important game.
     
    "Oh, you mean like during... soccer play-offs?" Bree purred innocently.
     
    Amanda gasped.
     
    "Put a sock in it, Bree," Sukari ordered.
     
    "Or what?" Bree laughed. "Gonna get 'Manda to put a hex on me?"
     
    Beth and Kristen apprehensively watched Cam, who seemed unaware of the rumpus around her. "Did you see his boots, Als?" she murmured. "He was wearing boots."
     
    Alex looked down the hall again. Cade was leaning against another bank of lockers, looking, as Sukari had put it, tasty and intense. And, no, she hadn't noticed before, but he was wearing boots, scuffed black motorcycle boots.
     
    Alex forced herself to laugh. "Sure, like a gazillion other guys in the world," she told Cam. "That doesn't make him... you know, bad to the bone."
     
    But she'd picked up on Cam's train of thought: The killer, the big, bearded bozo they'd been warned about, wore boots, heavy clunky boots, even in the sweltering summer.
     
    So did that mean whoever he sent to snag them would share his fondness for funky footwear? No way, Alex decided, determined to get inside Cade's head, to prove Cam wrong.
     
    But she couldn't. The buff boy's mind was murky and shut down. There was something stirring there in the dark, a devastating secret, which Alex couldn't decode. She couldn't read it, she realized, because Cade refused to think about it. He was hiding something, not just from her, but from himself.
     
    Cam was on a similar mission. Cade was a stranger. Only Kristen seemed to know something about him—and that wasn't much. Except he was clearly someone Alex was attracted to, and his boots had reminded Cam of the scary guy they'd met the night Ileana and Officer Karsh had rescued them.
     
    Was Cade the murderer's
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