Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick Chapters 21-27

Nora is now a lot less well off than she was before after getting information from the waitress in Blind Joe's, Nora has a feeling that once again someone is watching her, nervous she rushes to the bus stop, once on the bus she gets a phone call from Vee, who says she is in Portland with Elliot and jules at a party, Nora gets off the bus in an attempt to get to Vee she asks the driver for directions, and then she bumps into an old lady who says she will give her information and direcortions to were she needs to be, but only if Nora gives the old lady her coat and her hat. She does this and then takes the directions the old gave her, just through the alleyway and black car pulls up and shots are fired, Nora looks around the corner, to see the old lady laid out on the floor a pool of red leaking through Nora's coat, she rummages through the pockets to find her phone, but it isn't there, she goes to the pay phone to dail for the police, she looks around and the old lady has vanished, shaken she calls Patch for help. He's soon with her and drives her back, but the car breaks down in the middle of the storm and they have to go to a motel. Once inside it appears the phone lines are down and they have no electricty either. They both shower to warm up and in a crazy moment Nora touches Patch's scares which reveals his secrets, she finds out that Patch is the one who wants her dead and that Miss Greene isn't actaully the new school therapist but an angel who is in love with Patch. She's freaked out and scared but Patch manages to talk her down, he lets her touch his scars again, this time she learns that he actually wantsto become humapan and how he has to do it. They talk about miss Greene or Debria as she is known,Patch realises the person trying to hurt Nora is Debria. Patch takes Nora home and tells her to lock herself inside when he has checked no one is there. She goes inside feeling nervous and scared, she goes to get something to eat then turns to see Debria standing behind her, Debria tells her that becuase Patch has fallen in love with Nora and that makes him want to stay on earth where he shouldn't be, Debria wants him back and she will kill Nora to get Patch back. She tries to stab Nora but luckily she escapes Debria but she had nowhere to run, she goes unpstairs and hides in the chimney, Debria starts a fire in thr room and Nora escapes to hide in her closet, Patch comes back to save her, she tell him that Debria was in the house and that she started the fire, Patch tells her to go to Delphic, she says she will but she doesn't she rings Vee's mum who says she has gone to the cinema with Jules, so Nora goes to the cinema to try and find Vee, she searches through one screen but can't find Vee, so she goes to look in the next again she can't find her, but settles down to watch the film, Patch suddenly appears and to get her to leave, after making some noise the people sat beside her complain, but Patch is playing with there minds so they can't see him, she has no option but to go with him, he takes her into the ladies and they discuss that he reported Debria to the arch angels and that now she has lost her wings as well, but her threat isn't out of the way, she's just not as dangerous as before.