"Applegate, Katherine A - Animorphs - 05 - The Predator (3)" - читать интересную книгу автора (Applegate Katherine A)

So does fear. I just kept picturing the Yeerk
pool. The cages full of involuntary hosts,
humans and Hork-Bajir, temporarily free of
their Yeerk
parasites.
I kept hearing them. Crying
-
that's what most of them did while they waited to be
rein-
fested. Others screamed. Some begged for mercy.
Or worse.
My mom was standing by the kitchen counter.
She was more dressed up than she usually was in
the evening. She was munching nervously on some
Doritos and kind of staring off into space.
"Mom? Hello?"
She looked like she hadn't noticed me. "Oh,
hi, honey."
"What's for dinner? I'm starving."
"Your father is coming over tonight. For din
ner. He said he would pick something up."
I felt my stomach clench. Something was
wrong.
Since the divorce, my dad never came over
for dinner. My two sisters and I spent one
weekend a month overnight at his apartment in the
city. Plus the every-other-weekend outing.
But he did not come over for dinner.
I wasn't hungry anymore. "What's going
on?"
I demanded.
My mother got this worried look on her face, which
she tried to hide. "Your father has something he wants
to tell you girls. He was supposed to tell you the
other night at the circus. I guess
he forgot."
The way she said "I guess he forgot" made it
clear she didn't think that was the truth.
I took my mother's arm. "Mom? I
don't like suspense, all right? So just
-
his
The doorbell rang.
I heard Sara running down the stairs. I heard
Jordan yell, "Stop running on the stairs,
you'll
break your neck." She sounded just like my mother. It
almost made my mom and me smile.
"That will be your father."
I went to the front room. Sara was leaping into my