Anywhere You Are by Constance O'Day-Flannery

Author:Constance O'Day-Flannery [O'Day-Flannery, Constance]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781617563805
Google: _PWkWofln2wC
Amazon: 1617563803
Barnesnoble: 1617563803
Goodreads: 1497047
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: 1999-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

_Chapter I I

Gravity worked. Newton’s law was right.

They were plummeting toward the earth. In the instant it took, he held his breath, closed his eyes and pulled the cord. He expected to fall hard and fast. When the chute deployed, the jolting uplifts shot them like a cannonball higher into the sky. It terrorized him, especially to be dropped moments later with such force he thought the bindings would surely break. Tranquility immediately followed. Nothing but the sound of air rushing over his ears.

Finally exhaling, he looked up to the green-andwhite material puffed out above them. Damnedest thing. It worked.

Jack held Mairie so tightly to his chest, his natural fear of the unknown and desire to protect her almost made him forget the ‘reins’ he needed to guide the chute. They dangled out in front of them. Pull the left to go left, the right to go to the right.

In spite of it all, he remembered. Except for riding a horse or traveling in a wagon, his feet had been on the ground his entire life. He slowly eased his hands away. For just that second, letting go of Mairie scared him more than anything else. Hands trembling, he reached out and grasped the handles.

Looking down to the earth made him

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He pulled on the left handle. His vision altered as they turned slightly toward a different view of sky. The clouds he had been using to provide cover now danced so closely. Close enough he thought to reach out and touch them. He didn’t even notice when it began … the easing of gripping fear. Perhaps that’s why his gaze lowered to the mountains. His dizziness was gone, replaced by awe.

This was living a vision quest. From somewhere in his mind, he saw himself days ago. Sitting quietly on the tallest mountain in his world, looking out over this valley, feeling at one with Mother Earth. But now … this was like being nature. This must be what the eagle and the hawk felt. Maps couldn’t do this justice. How could a drawing ever define what he was seeing?

This was being alive. He pulled the right handle and felt an almost childish delight in the graceful drift in the other direction. He forgot they were falling at a speed he had never thought a human could experience. All he could think, in that glorious timeless instant, was he was part of something so much larger than he ever imagined. Something exciting and creative … his mind was expanding beyond anything he could have ever conceived.

Suddenly the vision quest turned into a nightmare.

White light flashed around them, blinding him at once. In terror, he seized Mairie to his chest as something, some heat, entered his body, racing along his spine and sending an unfamiliar tingling sensation everywhere. He immediately thought he had died, and a part of him wondered how he could think at all if he were dead.

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