CHAPTER 10
ZACH
Didn’t bad luck come in threes? Zach hoped not, because Ari already had two problems to contend with this week, and worse than the concussion was renting an apartment from Ms. Carrington, who breathed fire every time her arthritis acted up.
How did Zach know that? Because he and Maya had rented the same garage apartment for a couple of months when they first moved to Seagrass Point, and he’d felt the lash of Ms. Carrington’s tongue whenever his footsteps crunched the gravel too loudly or he left his boards “cluttering up the yard.”
He’d always known that buying a property next door to her would be a risk, but he’d figured she was getting on in years. How much longer could she stay alive? Seven years later, he’d come to the conclusion that she was immortal. The old drago
