A Little Faith - Midlife's a Beach Series: Paranormal Woman's Fiction - Book Five - Final by M L Briers

Author:M L Briers [Briers, M L]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-05-25T00:00:00+00:00

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Faith walked towards the beach, eyeing the rocks where the wreck that had taken her life was hidden beneath the waves. “A bairn,” she said, thinking hard. “It tried to kill her before she could do – what?”

Something moved off to her left. She turned to see Serendipity walking the jagged rocks. The cat was slow and laboured. She was in front of the cat in the blink of an eye.

Serendipity stopped in her tracks and puff-balled as her fur stood on end. “Holy crap,” Serendipity said, slowly backing up because she didn’t have the energy to move as fast as she would have liked. “Vampire.”

“Holy crap,” Faith replied. “A soggy moggy.”

“Vampire!” Serendipity repeated, trying to come to terms with what she was feeling – one predator recognising another.

“Sure, the whole fangs and claws thing was a personal challenge…”

“Faith!” Serendipity said, eyeing her human.

Faith rolled her eyes. “Vampire,” she said, expanding her arms out to the sides and shrugging. “Poop happens, right?”

“But…vampire,” Serendipity said, momentarily weighing that thought. “Don’t eat me!”

Faith pressed her lips together in annoyance. “I guess I should get used to that reaction.”

“But…vampire…”

“Oh my God, Dippy – stop saying it!” Faith snapped.

Serendipity sat her backside down with a heavy sigh. “I failed to protect you,” she said, bowing her head with shame and grief.

“I’ll live…”

“Honey, that ship has sailed,” Serendipity replied with an edge of sympathy on her acid tongue.

“Funny,” Faith said, turning and sitting on the jutting rock beside her cat.

“Funny enough that you’re not going to eat me?”

“Meh,” Faith said, wafting a hand in the air to bat that question away.

“Well, you did leave me for dead out here,” Serendipity sighed. “After the wave.”

Faith grimaced. “I had other stuff on my mind.”

“Like being dead…”

“Like Jennifer…”

“And being dead…”

“And blood.”

Serendipity turned a curious look up at her human. “And we’re back to don’t eat me.”

“Drink you,” Faith corrected her with a smirk.

“Amounts to the same thing, a dead cat, nine lives a-wasted, and I’m generally a good companion,” Serendipity replied.

“In what sense?” Faith said, reaching out and scooping up the cat before she could even think about running.

“Go ahead,” Serendipity said as she was lifted with one hand to be able to eye her human. “I’ve lost my sense of purpose – I’m getting old – I have…”

“Oh boy, pity party,” Faith said, turning the cat and placing her on her lap. “We always were in synch.”

Serendipity twisted her head and looked up at Faith. “You have a purpose – Jennifer.”

Faith bit out a bitter chuckle. “You think those witches are going to let me anywhere near her?”

“You are a loose cannon right now,” Serendipity said, and when Faith snapped a glare at her, she pulled her head back on her neck. “Don’t drink me!”

“I’m not going to drink you!” Faith snapped. “For one thing, I don’t want to get fur between my teeth – my toothbrush is locked in my house, and I can’t get in.”

“Good way to look at the situation,” Serendipity said. “Make it all about you…”

“Really?” Faith snapped.

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