A Beast Among Gods (The Mac Tire Chronicles) by Garnet Davenport

Author:Garnet Davenport [Davenport, Garnet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Foxtrot Publishing LLC
Published: 2021-03-08T22:00:00+00:00

➣ Chapter 14

Pay It Forward

One of the boys cautiously came into our room the next day. I hadn’t moved the entire night. Jamie was still securely nestled into my chest. I wasn’t ready to give him up. His fingers had started to stiffen, and I couldn’t hold onto his hand any longer.

“William?” he said.

“What?” I replied, my voice hoarse from the night and nonuse.

“We… we made arrangements for Jamie.”

“Fine.” I growled.

I moved toward Jamie. I lifted the sheet and placed my fingers on his pale cheek, and said, “Thank you for showing me love. I’ll never forget you.”

I covered him back up with the sheet and got up to walk away from him.

“You don’t want to stay?” the boy asked.

“No.”

“What are we supposed to do now?”

“About what?” I growled.

“You’re the Commander. What are we supposed to do?”

“Don’t do anything. Leave from here. Go out into the world and live. Don’t show anyone who you really are,” I said and then walked away.

***

I had been traveling for a few hours when a big truck stopped on the side of the road. The window rolled down, and the guy inside yelled out.

“Where you headed?”

“I don’t know.”

“Well, I’m on my way to Wisconsin. I can take you there. That’s about eight hundred miles.”

Eight hundred miles away sounded really good.

“Sure.”

The guy leaned over and opened the door. I climbed up and sat in the passenger seat. He had country music playing, and the sound from the engine was loud to my sensitive ears. He got a look at me and narrowed his eyes on me.

“I’m not looking for any trouble, but I’ve got to know if you’re on the run from the law,” he said.

“No, my friend was in an accident. He didn’t make it,” I said low.

“Well, I’ll be stopping for a break in about three hours. You can shower at the truck stop and get something to eat.”

“I don’t have any money,” I said.

“That’s all right. It looks like you’ve had one hell of a night, and you’re going to need to clean yourself up and get something in your belly. I don’t mind helping you out. Just so long as you pay it forward.”

“Pay it forward?” I asked, never hearing the phrase before.

“Yeah, it means to do something nice for someone else and then they do something nice for the next person they meet, and it keeps going forward.”

“Oh, I get it. That’s nice. I’ve never had something like that happen to me.”

“It looks like you’ve had a long life for the years you’ve traveled. Sometimes, I feel the same. I’ve got my honey at home. She’s trying to help a friend so she couldn’t be with us, but she wouldn’t hesitate to help,” he said.

That was when I got a good look at him. Auburn hair just past shoulder length, a long auburn beard with a few gray hair growing wild, and by the look of him, he has some height and muscle on him.

“What can I call you, young man?” he asked.

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