3-Absolution by Jennifer Laurens

Author:Jennifer Laurens
Format: mobi
Tags: Love & Romance, Fiction : Fantasy - Paranormal, Fantasy - Paranormal, Fiction - Fantasy, Fiction, Fantasy, General, YA), Romance & relationships stories (Children's, Fantasy - Urban Life, Juvenile Fiction : Love & Romance, Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781933963822
Publisher: Grove Creek Publishing, LLC
Published: 2010-10-14T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

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I drove the minivan to Kiwanis Park where Luke told me to meet him, ironically, the same park where I’d lost Abria and first seen Matthias.

Early evening was settling into Utah County, and the towering mountains surrounding the valley cast imposing, dark purple shadows across the valley floor in jagged, devouring shapes.

Matthias sat silently in the front seat next to me. Was he thinking about Albert? I wondered if he knew about Krissy’s dad. Did his refined powers, his station as a guardian, allow him to know about everything and everyone in my life? How deep did his knowledge go?

“I sense things,” he said. We shared a look across the darkening inside of the van. “Being refined doesn’t make one omniscient. But, yes, I do understand things that pertain to you or Abria. I receive enlightenment.”

“So, do you know what the deal is with Krissy’s dad?”

“The deal?”

“That he’s a sicko perv loser who molests his daughter.”

Matthias stared straight ahead out the window. Seconds passed in dense silence. The corner of his jaw twitched. “She’s lucky to have found Luke.”

“I don’t want Luke to get hurt, though,” I said, wondering what Matthias’ ‘enlightenment’ was on the subject.

“Zoe.” He tilted his head at me, kindness in his eyes. “Luke’s going to be all right.”

But her dad’s a psycho. I sighed, drove on. Trust. Have trust. Luke hadn’t said anything more to me on the phone except that something had happened and I needed to meet him at the park.

“Why do some people do stuff like that?” I asked. Matthias had been vehemently infuriated by Brady and Weston’s attempt to assault me, and he’d as much as said that anyone who harmed a child was culpable.

“Even in my current state of being,” he began, “it’s difficult for me to comprehend why one human seeks to hurt another. The only absolute I take comfort in is that, one day, justice will be served.”

“I agree, but how does that help someone like Krissy now? How do you help someone with scars that deep?”

“You begin with good friends like Luke. And you. Whatever Krissy faces in the future, you and Luke can offer her the support she will need to make it through.”

“No pressure or anything. ”

Matthias’ strength reached out, wrapped around me and infused me with palpable hope. The wave of strength poured into me, like water in a vase, filling me completely. “You can do it, and so can Luke.”

I pulled into the parking lot skirting the fringe of the park. Luke’s blue Samurai sat between two spots, the driver’s door left open as if he’d been in a hurry. My stomach dropped to my feet. I parked the minivan.

I opened the door and, by the time my feet hit the pavement, Matthias was already by my side. “How do you do that?” I chided him, my pace picking up speed as we crossed the grass.

“All it takes is a thought.”

“Some of us have to work to get where we want to go,” I quipped.

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