Blood Brothers by Nora Roberts

Author:Nora Roberts [Roberts, Nora]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf

HE HAD TO DO IT WITHOUT FOX, WHO, ACCORDING to Mrs. Hawbaker, was at the courthouse being a lawyer. So he sat in the oddly furnished living room on a couch so soft and saggy he was already wishing for the opportunity to get Quinn naked on it, and told them about the visitation on Main Street.

“An OOB,” Quinn decided.

“An oob?”

“No, no. Initials, like CYA. Out of body-experience. It sounds like that might be what you had, or maybe there was a slight shift in dimensions and you were in an alternate Hawkins Hollow.”

He might have spent two-thirds of his life caught up in something beyond rational belief, but he’d never heard another woman talk like Quinn Black. “I was not in an alternate anything, and I was right inside my body where I belong.”

“I’ve been studying, researching, and writing about the paranormal for some time now.” Quinn drank some coffee and brooded over it.

“It could be he was talking to a ghost who caused the illusion that they were alone on the street, and caused everyone else out there to-I don’t know-blip out for a few minutes.” Layla shrugged at Quinn’s narrowed look. “I’m new at this, and I’m still working really hard not to hide under the covers until somebody wakes me up and tells me this was all a dream.”

“For the new kid, your theory’s pretty good,” Quinn told her.

“How about mine? Which is what she said is a hell of a lot more important right now than how she said it.”

“Point taken.” Quinn nodded at Cal. “This is the time, she said. Three times seven. That one’s easy enough to figure.”

“Twenty-one years.” Cal pushed up to pace. “This July makes twenty-one years.”

“Three, like seven, is considered a magickal number. It sounds like she was telling you it was always going to come now, this July, this year. It’s stronger, you’re stronger, they’re stronger.” Quinn squeezed her eyes shut.

“So, it and this woman-this spirit-have both been able to…”

“Manifest.” Quinn finished Layla’s thought. “That follows the logic.”

“Nothing about this is logical.”

“It is, really.” Opening her eyes again, Quinn gave Layla a sympathetic look. “Inside this sphere, there’s logic. It’s just not the kind we deal with, or most of us deal with, every day. The past, the now, the yet to be. Things that happened, that are happening, and that will or may are all part of the solution, the way to end it.”

“I think there’s more to that part.” Cal turned back from the window. “After that night in the clearing, the three of us were different.”

“You don’t get sick, and you heal almost as soon as you’re hurt. Quinn told me.”

“Yeah. And I could see.”

“Without your glasses.”

“I could also see before. I started-right there minutes afterward-to have flashes of the past.”

“The way you did-both of us did,” Quinn corrected, “when we touched the stone together. And later, when we-”

“Like that, not always that clear, not always so intense. Sometimes awake, sometimes like a dream. Sometimes completely irrelevant.

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