Amateur Assassin by Sue Denver

Author:Sue Denver
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JGF Press

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Sara was happy to be back in her high-tech, protected home which looked like a modest farmhouse with a wrap-around porch. It was on a bank of the Arkansas River near Tulsa.

She sat for hours on the patio in her plastic fake Adirondack chair and watched the muddy river float by. She ruffled her wolf-dog Skidi’s fur — and threw the ball for her. She cooked. She even got on a cleaning jag. One night Sara took the two of them to the desert outside of Santa Fe — where they could run the night away as wolves.

Sara told Mason everything that had happened.

“So you and I will be ‘browns’ in the future?” Mason asked. “Because you’re half Mexican and I’m half Lupiti?”

“I had so little time to talk to her,” Sara said. “But it sounded like everyone will be ‘browns’ except the billionaires. They become the Plutarchs and control everything.”

“And how is that different from today?”

“In scope. Think about her name — Utility A-84-702. It sounds like the browns are named only for the job they do. Think what would have to be different for that to happen. Maybe brown babies are allowed or grown only for specific jobs. Because the Plutarchs need masses of people to do all the work they don’t want to dirty their hands with.”

Mason told Sara the New York police were looking for an unidentified shooter — but not very hard. They accepted Rasheed as the killer of his parents and Clary. They absolutely were not looking at Fletcher.

Sara spent the next two days locked inside her head. She was wrestling with her thoughts — and she was losing.

One day in total frustration, she called Bill Hanalho, the new chief of the Lupiti priests. “I could use a spiritual advisor,” she told him.

Which was actually funny. When they last met, she’d had a very different idea of how to “use” him. The man was a hunk. He looked thirty-something, tall, black hair almost to his waist, wonderful body — strong but not muscle-bound. Great hands. And a good heart.

Six months ago, Sara had gone to his grandfather — the head Lupiti priest at the time — to try to talk with Joe White Wolf’s spirit — the Lupiti shaman who had turned her.

Pretty much everything went very wrong that night — including her transforming against her will. Bill’s grandfather ended up dead — not her fault, thankfully. Bill inherited the job and he knew her secret. Because he knew werewolves existed, she thought he might be open to the possibility of time travel.

And it was a great excuse to see him again(!)

She and Bill met out by Lupiti Lake, which wasn’t crowded at the moment. Just two families were sitting on park benches and a couple was paddling a canoe. She walked with him out onto the pier and they sat with their legs hanging over the side — almost to the water.

They really shouldn’t be seen together. In Lupiti culture — a priest and a shaman were antagonists.

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